were followed by a bite to eat with my fellow musicians. They are such a lovely bunch. I feel privileged to call them friends and colleagues and I hope to be able to share my faith and make music with them again in the future.

… fiddle, mandolin = me! etc…). Here’s a link to one of the hymns that we will be performing which was written in a Breton Celtic style + will be performed by us as such tomorrow. youtu.be/UaLCimQvz8g?... Today’s final rehearsals and partial sound check (to be finished at 7:45am tomorrow morning!)..

This will be followed by an evening youth event led by a professional Christian band. Given that we are in Finistère, Brittany, it is appropriate that our house band is made up of musicians well-versed in Celtic music + who play the appropriate instruments (Breton bagpipes, Irish low whistle…

As well as being a lead member of the house worship band, inc. for the mass celebrated by the Bishop in the afternoon, I am responsible for (and compèring) a one hour concert given in the early evening by music and theatre groups from around the diocese who have volunteered to share their talents...

"... The light quietly shines forth, even though we are in darkness;... a new beginning, however impossible it might seem, can take us by surprise, for Christ has triumphed over death."

(Pope Francis' Easter Vigil homily read by Card. Giovanni Battista Re 19 April 2025)