Repleatur os meum laude, ut cantem gloriam tuam, tota die magnitudinem tuam.

Psalm 70:8

The St. Patrick Choir is a group of twenty faithful volunteers who sing for High Mass every Sunday, 52 weeks a year, plus all major feast days, for divine worship at the Oratory.  The repertoire of the choir spans medieval polyphony, through Isaac and Josquin, to Palestrina and Victoria, to Vierne and Widor, to newly composed works.  And the animating spirit of the choir is found in Gregorian chant, the musical prayer par excellence of the Catholic Church.

Gregorian Chant has always been regarded as the supreme model for sacred music, so that it is fully legitimate to lay down the following rule: the more closely a composition for church approaches in its movement, inspiration and savor the Gregorian form, the more sacred and liturgical it becomes; and the more out of harmony it is with that supreme model, the less worthy it is of the temple. The ancient traditional Gregorian Chant must, therefore, in a large measure be restored to the functions of public worship, and the fact must be accepted by all that an ecclesiastical function loses none of its solemnity when accompanied by this music alone.

Pope Pius X, Tra le Sollecitudini, 1903

New members are always welcome!  Prior experience in singing is helpful but not required.  For more information, please contact Organist & Choirmaster David Hughes through the parish office.