We are excited to bring our community together for this special season of ecumenical solidarity! Each year from September 1 to October 4, the Christian family unites for this worldwide celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home. It is a special season where Catholics celebrate God as Creator, and acknowledge Creation as the divine continuing act that summons us as collaborators to love and care for the gift of all that is created. Followers of Christ from around the globe, share a common call to care for Creation. We are co-creatures and part of all that God has made. Our well-being is interwoven with the well-being of the Earth.

When the choir reached out last year to invite new members, I responded thinking this would be an opportunity for our daughter to sing with others. We wanted Sol to connect her desire to sing — she does so constantly at home and on her bike — with our church community and her faith.

Singing with the St. Ignatius choir isn’t something I do just because I love to sing. And I do love to sing! One reason I joined initially is so that my children avoid my attempts to sing the super high, soaring soprano descants next to them in the pews, on our living room couch during a livestream Mass, or even in the Communion line behind them — while they (unsuccessfully) fight the urge to physically back away, shake their heads and roll their eyes like they want to completely disown me. (Which they are justified in doing, because if you’ve ever heard them sing, you know that their voices are so much better than mine!) This happened a lot before joining. It was important that I found a proper outlet. Now it only happens — sometimes! But, it is definitely better than when I was doing that alone in the pews! (You’re welcome, regulars in the St. Joseph section!) If you, too, are feeling a bit like an over enthusiastic pew diva, you might want to think about joining!