LONDON - 4 December 2006 - 287 words
Jesuit
Jubilee Finale brings together 200 children's voices
'Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam'
'To the greater glory of God' will be the closing words
sung to mark the end of the Jesuits' Jubilee Year tonight, at
Farm Street Church in London. Some 200 pupils from seven Jesuit
schools will be raising their voices in praise at a special concert
of Christmas Carols and Songs which will conclude with the choral
anthem written by William Mathias.
Choirs from Mount St Mary's College near Sheffield will be joining
fellow pupils from Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, together
with boys and girls from their respective preparatory schools,
Barlborough Hall and St Mary's Hall. The other three Jesuit schools
taking part will be Donhead Lodge (Wimbledon College Prep School),
Saint Ignatius College, Enfield, and Saint John's Beaumont in
Berkshire.
The Concert of Christmas Carols and Songs is being held as the
conclusion to a year during which Jesuits worldwide have been
recalling the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Francis Xavier
and Blessed Peter Favre, two of the founding Companions of the
Society of Jesus along with St Ignatius Loyola, the 450th anniversary
of whose death has also been marked this year. Additionally, British
Jesuits have been mindful of four Jesuit martyrs St Nicholas
Owen, Fr Henry Garnet, Blessed Ralph Ashley and Blessed Edward
Oldcorne who were martyred 400 years ago in 1606, following
the Gunpowder Plot.
The choirs will be rehearsing at Farm Street Church in central
London during the afternoon, prior to the concert in the evening
(7pm). Each of the choirs will be performing separately a selection
of popular Christmas music, before they unite for 'Ad Maiorem
Dei Gloriam', the last great choral work of Welsh composer William
Mathias (1934-1992).
Source: Jesuit Communications
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