Newman Choir

Comprised of both male and female students, the Newman Choir sings at the Sunday 5 PM Masses and rehearses each Tuesday from 5:55-6:45 PM. Their repertoire includes motets, hymns, and chant in various styles, including harmonic Anglican, Gregorian Latin, and English monophonic. 

If you are interested in joining please don't hesitate and contact the choir director.

Recent repertoire

Set Me As a Seal (René Clausen)

Adoro Te Devote (Edwin Fissinger)

Locus Iste (Anton Bruckner)

If Ye Love Me (Thomas Tallis)

Adoramus te, Christe (Théodore Dubois)

Wachet Auf (J. S. Bach)

Ave Verum Corpus (W. A. Mozart)

Our Father (Maurice Duruflé)

Dona nobis pacem (anonymous canon)

Non nobis Domine (anonymous canon)

“114. The treasure of sacred music is to be preserved and fostered with great care. Choirs must be diligently promoted, especially in cathedral churches; but bishops and other pastors of souls must be at pains to ensure that, whenever the sacred action is to be celebrated with song, the whole body of the faithful may be able to contribute that active participation which is rightly theirs, as laid down in Art. 28 and 30.”

CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY
SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM
SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI
December 4, 1963

“19. Because of the liturgical ministry it performs, the choir—or the Capella musica, or schola cantorum—deserves particular mention. Its role has become something of yet greater importance and weight by reason of the norms of the Council concerning the liturgical renewal. Its duty is, in effect, to ensure the proper performance of the parts which belong to it, according to the different kinds of music sung, and to encourage the active participation of the faithful in the singing. Therefore:

(a) There should be choirs, or Capellae, or scholae cantorum, especially in cathedrals and other major churches, in seminaries and religious houses of studies, and they should be carefully encouraged.”

                                        SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL
                                                                               MUSICAM SACRAM 
                                        INSTRUCTION ON MUSIC IN THE LITURGY
                                                                                         5 March, 1967