The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception held their annual Christmas Charity Concert on December 5th. (You can see that I'm still desperately trying to catch up on my blog posts.) I hadn't yet been to the Basilica. It is the largest Roman Catholic church in all of North America. Since we got there just before the concert started, I wasn't really able to walk around and look at everything, so I'll be going back for a tour sometime after the holidays.
The music was so beautiful. The concert featured the Choir of the Basilica and The Catholic University of America Chorus and Symphony Orchestra. We weren't sitting where we could see very well, but at a concert it's more important to be able to hear than to see, right? And, we were lucky to have a place to sit as there were many standing along the sides and back. I just love the way choirs, and music in general, sound in large churches. The sound just has such an ethereal quality to it.
If you're interested and you have satellite TV, the concert was recorded for broadcast on EWTN. It'll be shown on Dec. 23rd at 11pm and Dec. 25th at 2pm, both EST.
Happy Birthday, Rich!
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