Rose and Sparkles received a ribbon and medal for their Chorister advancement on the feast of the Purification. 

The annual Conferral of Medals and Ribbons of the Royal School of Church Music took place at our parish. Ten new choristers, including Sparkles, received the medal of the Royal School which represents two years of hard work in sight-singing, music theory, voice production and Gregorian Chant.  Others received various colored ribbons representing further work and testing in the Chorister Training Program of the Royal School.  Rose received her Purple Ribbon, signifying that she has successfully completed the entire training program.  Deo Gratias!

Flower bouquet from Sparkles’ Nina

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And by such music we express the spiritual joy of our hearts in this heavenly function, and excite ourselves therein to holy jubilation and devotion. Divine love and praise are the work of the heart, without which all words or exterior signs are hypocrisy and mockery. Yet as we are bound to consecrate to God our voices and all our organs and faculties, and all creatures which we use, so we ought to employ them all in magnifying his sanctity, greatness, and glory, and sometimes to accompany our interior affections of devotion with the most expressive exterior signs.  ~Taken from Vol. III of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler