The Easter Vigil Celebration 2009

The Interlude choir, through the hard work of Kuya Roger, our president and Kuya Manny the Liturgical Committee Chair, has been preparing way ahead of time the celebration of the Easter Vigil. Specially that this commemoration has so many parts that are not commonly done, we really had to be also prepared on our part as a choir. Kuya Manny requested me to put melody on 7 Psalms, two of which were for the Palm Sunday and Good Friday and the other 5 for the Easter Vigil. We asked the assistance of Ricky to have all the Psalms recorded on diskette to be played on organ since none of us in the choir knows how to play the organ. After the tedious recordings and preparations, the Psalms and the liturgical songs had been readied before the schedules. Last Sunday, Pamela sang the Psalm: "Dios ko, Dios ko, nganong Imo akong gibiyaan" very meaningfully. Last Good Friday, I sang the Psalm: "O Amahan, gitugyan ko ang akong kinabuhi diha sa Imong mga kamot."

This afternoon at 5:30, the Easter Vigil Celebration started with the blessing of the fire, which was followed by the Liturgy of the Word. Ate Ofelia, Darlene and Kuya Manny sang Psalms 104, 16 and Exodus 15 respectively and Kuya Manny and Ate Des sang in duet Psalm 42. I was so happy because the assembly and even Bishop Tonel, his co-celebrants and the assembly sang with the choir loudly. I and Darlene sang the Litany of Saints during the Baptismal Rites. On the whole, the choir did a great job. Bishop Tonel told us that we had good music that we made the people sing too.

Kuya Manny prepared a dinner for the group at his home. There, we celebrated as the Interlude Choir Family for having done a good job in our singing ministry.