Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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St. Ann
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Posted: Nov 24 2008 at 10:12am | IP Logged Quote St. Ann
During a catholic school liturgy I noticed that very few children can actually sing. The choir director encouraged the kids to sing louder and so they just started yelling more or less. The music teacher has a nice , strong voice, but she has never studied voice. She tries to find upbeat, hip church songs to get the kids interested. "Awesome God"...The girls who do have nice voices in choir are singing more and more with an "american superstar" voice, iykwim? (singing 1 syllable words with at least 2 syllable) I digress. The actual point of this post is to tell you about a great new find for me. I think this kind of musical recording would be so helpful to teach our children to sing, especially when moms don't have such a beautiful voice(like me). Yesterday I received a wonderful gift.

Singing with Children

The musician's voice is so clear and pure. I just love the arrangements and it encourages you to sing along. For St. Nicholas fans, there are at least 3 St. Nick songs. Has anyone ever heard any of the other recordings?

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Posted: Nov 24 2008 at 1:06pm | IP Logged Quote donnalynn
Yes - this is our favorite Advent/Christmas CD - I love that it starts with Thanksgiving and goes through Epiphany. I was in a tizzy when I tried to reorder a new one last year and they were sold out everywhere!! Our original disc had a few scratches that made a couple of songs skip.

But...I had a surprise this past July when my new copy that I had ordered *months* before arrived!

There are so many favorites on that CD.

I don't have any of the other recordings - I know they are geared toward young children (7 and under) or I guess I should say for the parents of young children - the idea is for these recordings to help parents learn to sing and then for the parents to sing with their children.

But I cheat with the Christmas CD all the time!

Just one correction - there is one St. Nicholas song and one spoken poem for St. Nicholas.

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