KelleyC's blog

In the cold dark hour just before the dawn, the few choir members who actually went to sleep are awakened by those who didn't.  I pray everyone gets a second or third wind to get them through this, the best Mass of the entire year.  At 4:45 a.m. we start to make our way from the Catacombs into the half-darkened Church, just 36 hours before bare and solemn, now gorgeous with gold and white banners and hundreds of flowers. We set up instruments, check microphones, practice the Psalm Response and do a full-fledged sound check.