After watching the circus that was the music at the Mass in D.C. this morning on EWTN, I drove to a city that neighbors mine to a parish called S.S. Peter and Paul (which houses a perpetual adoration chapel in its former convent), where my pastor and the music director of my parish (St. Peter Catholic Church Stevens Point) had been requested to offer an ordinary form Latin Mass for the Assumption Catholic High School students. 

Two other members of St. Peter's choir and myself were asked to help fill out the sound of the schola, which was otherwised made up of 10 high school students (boys and girls) and two teachers.  I did not think they even needed our help, so well-versed were they in the chants used for the Mass.  But it was nice to be invited to attend. 

It was a first step, and a good one.  They did not attempt the propers, but they chanted Regina Caeli for the processional, Ave Verum at Communion, and O filii et filiæ as the recessional.  The Jubilate Deo Mass settings were used for the Sanctus, Memorial Acc and Agnus Dei.  Most of the dialogues and responses were sung in Latin.  Not bad for high school students doing this for the first time, eh?  It just goes to show that we should at least be able to do this at our parish.  Father gave a nice homily about the virtue of using Latin in the Mass.  He said most of the prayers in Latin, including the Eucharistic prayer. 

I felt blessed to be part of this and somewhat refreshed from the bad taste the music in D.C. had left in my mouth.  Hope springs eternal.