Please remind your Choir Leaders to attend the Monthly Meeting this Sunday, 03 August, at the Parish Choir Loft at 1:30 pm. The agenda of our meeting are as follows:

• Assigning of cleaners for the choir risers;
• BEC Communion and Recessional songs for the whole month of September;
• Procurement of one microphone for the extra audio line and proposed bulletin boad;
• Proposals for projects such as the Choir Fair, Music Ministry Concert for December, and Parish Hymn Songwriting Competition for March of next year;
• Other matters.

Thank you and see you all on Sunday.

Father Chong, our parish priest, has requested all choir coordinators and accompanists to attend the emergency meeting today at 2:00 p.m.

This meeting is regarding the new songs to be included as Communion and Recessional songs in the September lineup namely the Sumasaakin Ang Espiritu (based from Luke 4:18-19) and the BEC (Basic Ecclesiastical Community) Theme Song respectively.

We hope that the member choirs of MRPMM will send their representatives to the said meeting. Thank you and good day.

This is the summary of topics discussed during the monthly meeting yesterday.

• Suggestion by the Coordinator to pursue a new scheduling scheme. Reason: Cannot effectively implement the “No Attendance, No Schedule” policy because all masses in the parish should be serviced by a choir. Pros: all liturgical celebrations held in the parish would be serviced by a choir. Cons: not all choirs can commit to the change.

• Obtaining the lists of members with residence and contact information from choir representatives as requested by Bro. James. Reason: for the parish internal survey.

• Creation of the mobile service of the music ministry. Reason: to expedite information dissemination among members.

• Designing of new scheduling form with counter signature of choir representatives. Pros: helpful to members who question officers regarding mass services not acquired by their respective choirs.

• Report on the Parish Pastoral Council meeting last month regarding the reorganization of ugnayans or BECs. Reason: the group can help the parish by participating in the survey of the current and active ugnayans or BECs in the parish.

• Presentation of a group of parishioners from BF Homes Phase 1 who are scouting for choirs from the music ministry for them to join.

• Checking of repertoires or lineup of choirs during their mass services due to the return to the Ordinary Time.

• Suggestions by the Assistant Coordinator to check the sound system of the parish and to conduct meeting of music ministry officers prior to the monthly meetings.

• Reiteration of the Coordinator for officers to submit resignation letters if they wish to step down from their duly elected positions.

Today we celebrate the first day of the week-long celebration of our parish’s 11th Foundation Day. Led by our parish priest, Fr. Melchor Balinggao, the PPC members, and the MRPMM, these are the Novena Masses for the feast and its corresponding choirs:

• 24, Monday, 6:00 PM - Hosanna Choir
• 25, Tuesday, 6:00 PM - Ave Maria
• 26, Wednesday, 6:00 PM - El Shaddai
• 27, Thursday, 6:00 PM - Koinonia
• 28, Friday, 6:00 PM - ME Parish Choir
• 29, Saturday, 6:00 PM - Ave Maria

We invite everyone to hear the Novena masses as well as the Sunday morning Fiesta Mass  scheduled at 8:00 AM with Most Rev. Antonio R. Tobias, DD, the bishop of the Diocese of Novaliches, as the mass celebrant.

Happy Easter to all!

The salubong will start at 4am today and the mass will begin at 5am with the Lead Choir serving as the choir for the culminating event of this year’s Holy Week.

Hope all of you have reflected with a contrite heart.

This is a reminder to all choir heads who have not yet submitted their contact sheet forms to submit theirs at the parish office. These are the MRPMM member choirs who have dutifully passed their contact sheets at the parish office:

1. El Shaddai
2. Koro Dei
3. Couples for Christ
4. Elohim
5. Salvatorian
6. MRP Choir

To those who have not yet submitted their copy to Bro. Daniel Mier, please download the form below and email it to mrpmusicministry (at) gmail (dot) com with the heading [CHOIR] CONTACT SHEET.

MRPMM Contact Sheet

Fr. Henry Romero, our assistant parish priest, requested an emergency meeting with every member of the MRPMM. He is, in fact, heralded by our parish priest, Fr. Chong, to oversee the music ministry in terms of our involvement with the parish activities (particularly on masses and liturgical celebrations). Below are the things he pointed out during the meeting with the ministry:

• The Lead Choir should sing the song Liwanag Ng Aming Puso as the exultet during the Blessing of Fire and Water on Black Saturday.
• Starting this Easter, except for the Ordinary Time, choirs should submit their seasonal repertoire in advance for approval.
• Choirs should be, at all times, conscious of the fact that they are part of the celebration. The choir cannot go on without the Eucharist but the Eucharist can go on without the choir.
• As a disciplinary act for choirs with members who misbehave during masses, they are required to sing in front of everybody during the mass or liturgical celebration.
• There is a plan to have a fifteen-minute (15) interval for each masses held in the afternoon and the evening. Aside from facilitating the human traffic (i.e. parishioners), this time will also be accorded for choirs to familiarize the incoming parishioners of the songs to be sung during the said mass or liturgical celebration.
• Choirs should also maintain a personnel to handle the overhead projector during masses for the “flashing” of songs.
• Choirs can do away with just the melody of the song. No need to do the four-voice melodies if they cannot justify it.
• Intros and extros of the songs should be arranged in a manner that it is brief and concise.
• Choirs are required to give a list of the active members of their choir and the venue and dates of their rehearsals to Fr. Henry.