Welcome to the website for Chorus Angelorum!
The goal for creating this website was to provide information and resources our choristers and their parents in a way that was easily accessible to all.
- The Blog has the most current information and reflects any updates made on the website.
- Every entry is also cross-posted on our Facebook page to allow a more effortless way to keep apprised of new information for parents.
Please take a minute to "like" us! - Mass Schedule contains information about when we rehearse and sing for Mass
- Practice Resources provide links to Youtube videos to facilitate practice at home
- The Forum is a great and easy way for us to share ideas about the choir in a public, open manner so that everyone can see and make their voice heard!
How do I join the choir?
Chorus Angelorum is open to any child from Holy Family Parish who meets the following requirements:
Each chorister must:
Each chorister must:
- have a desire to praise God through sacred song
- commit to attending rehearsals and performance dates
- be between the ages of 7 and 14 with unchanged voices
- be able to read well enough to follow text in music and sound out words easily
- be able to match pitch
- be respectful
- be willing to learn
About Chorus Angelorum
After repeatedly responding to an annual request to provide a children's choir for the Christmas Eve Pageant Mass, in 1993, Kids Praise Too! was formed to give our children an opportunity to sing year-round. As the dust settled in the wake of the New Translation, we began to reexamine the direction the choir was taking and we chose a route that strives to be as true to the text of the Propers of the Mass as our skill level and rehearsal time allows. To reflect that change, we chose a new name for the choir: Chorus Angelorum. Now, in addition to singing on Christmas Eve, Chorus Angelorum now collaborates with the Adult Choir for Palm Sunday as well as singing once a month, September through May, at the Family Mass on Sundays at 9:00am. We are especially excited that Chorus Angelorum will have the honor of singing our very own Easter Mass this coming year for the first time at the 11am Mass!
Our inspiration for having a choir for children was to contrast the "children should be seen and not heard" adage, and instead, provide them with a way that they can participate in the Mass - be leaders - and feel like valued members of the congregation. However, in the 17 years since CA's inception, our children have not only fulfilled that goal, but raise the bar year after year. We are continually impressed with amount of music they can learn, the speed with which they can learn it, and by how well they retain the songs. Throughout the year with our weekly rehearsals, their sense of pitch improves exponentially--they have an uncanny ability to pull a "sing a 'G' for God" out of thin air! The children who return to the choir year after year (the "back row") not only help lead and teach the younger ones, but allow the choir to handle complex harmonies with ease. In addition to being able to learn multiple parts for our repertoire, the children also sing in several languages. So far, in addition to English, they have mastered songs in Latin, German and French! Kids Praise Too! rehearses in the choir loft in back of the church.
Our inspiration for having a choir for children was to contrast the "children should be seen and not heard" adage, and instead, provide them with a way that they can participate in the Mass - be leaders - and feel like valued members of the congregation. However, in the 17 years since CA's inception, our children have not only fulfilled that goal, but raise the bar year after year. We are continually impressed with amount of music they can learn, the speed with which they can learn it, and by how well they retain the songs. Throughout the year with our weekly rehearsals, their sense of pitch improves exponentially--they have an uncanny ability to pull a "sing a 'G' for God" out of thin air! The children who return to the choir year after year (the "back row") not only help lead and teach the younger ones, but allow the choir to handle complex harmonies with ease. In addition to being able to learn multiple parts for our repertoire, the children also sing in several languages. So far, in addition to English, they have mastered songs in Latin, German and French! Kids Praise Too! rehearses in the choir loft in back of the church.