Six Christmas Concerts

Advent is for us as busy as it was for the Blessed Mother as she prepared to go to Bethlehem for the census, knowing that the birth of her son was imminent. We carry this same expectancy within us as we reach out to a waiting world during the Christmas season--a world that will find its meaning only in Jesus and its hope only in his love.

This weekend twelve of us are gathering in New York for a week of practicing before our Christmas concerts. The concerts will be held on Staten Island, in Manhattan, and in Princeton, New Jersey. The following week-end we will be doing three Christmas concerts in the Boston area: two in our convent chapel and one in Billerica at St. Theresa's Parish.

Concerts are a lot of work and a lot of fun, but we have discovered that the power of music to instill faith and courage and to comfort and console is irreplaceable. For the hundreds of people who will be at our concerts we have already begun to pray that Jesus will work through our voices to reach the hearts of the people he loves so much.