Today the Master Singers had a concert in Georgetown at Faith Lutheran Church. It was a mixture of Thanksgiving and Christmas music as well as church anthems and a couple of gospel songs. I have worked really hard on this music this week as I had kind of ignored it in favor of the Christmas music, but it went off really well I think. I knew more than I thought I did so was able to sing most everything without faking it on notes or words too much. I had never been to a Lutheran Church before and this one was very pretty and unique in that they had a collection of over 6000 crosses in the foyer and down the halls in the church. This collection was first started by a pastor who was serving there who had his own collection of crosses and then people would give him more and more so he started hanging them at the church on display, and after he left it continued to grow as a tradition. It was pretty amazing to see. Another unique thing about the evening was that when the pastor stood up to say a prayer, he actually did a chanted prayer which I had only ever seen done in Rome at St. Peter's Basilica during the Pope's Mass on the Sunday we visited there--and that was done by dozens of Cardinals and was absolutely beautiful. Anyway, it was a good evening and I saw and learned some interesting things while there.
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| These are just a few hundred of the 6000 crosses on display. |
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