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SE05 EP13 - Becoming a Sacrifice of Praise: Advice for Choral Directors for Pursuing Musical Excellence & Developing a Polyphonic Repertoire in Parish Choirs - with Christopher Berry

Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast

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Engaging and Encouraging Spiritual Formation

I'm constantly now preaching to my choir about, I call it inhabiting the text that they're singing. And so having that in the vernacular, of course, engages the spirit right away and gets us into that sacred place. A month or so ago, I found myself wanting to, at the beginning of Lent, to re-engage in mental prayer. So I just spent time with the proper texts for the upcoming Sunday. It's not necessarily what great spiritual directors would call Lexio Divina. But maybe I propose that that's one of the sacrifices we must make as church musicians.

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