5 Ways to Make Your Music Program More Marian

The Church rightly promotes Marian devotion in a special way during the months of May and October, but the accompanying flurry of articles on Marian devotion usually comes too late to be implemented in time for these special months. Rather than wait for an especially Marian month, I wanted to share these five tips for making your parish music program more Marian now, during early August, when music directors are busily planning and preparing to kick off a new year of choral and/or school music programming after the summer recess.

St. Louis de Montfort notes that entrusting ourselves and all of our actions to Mary is “the surest, the easiest, the shortest and the most perfect means of going to Jesus Christ” (True Devotion to MaryI.3.2), who Himself deigned to be born of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the sake of our salvation. With that end in mind, here are five ways to start incorporating (think about that word – one could just as easily say incarnating!) more Marian devotion into the life or your parish or school choir…Read more at Corpus Christi Watershed.