Thank you, Father Ryan!
 • Dear Father Ryan, I would like to thank you for supporting us this week.  I had a great time, and it was wonderful to see you around the Cathedral.  Your energy makes everyone around you perk up, and start looking on the bright side.  No matter how gray or rainy the day, or how tired everyone was, your smiling face and cheerful words reminded us how lucky we are to make beautiful music in a place like St. James.
 • Dear Father Ryan, thank you so much for letting us do this.  It was an awesome experience, and I improved my singing so much.  It was really cool when you came in and played piano, you're really good.
 • Thanks again for the opportunity.
 • Thank you for being our pastor.  You have not only helped build a great cathedral, but also a great neighbor and world.  Good luck with the organ!
 • Thank you for always being around for everyone.  You have been SO nice to me.  I'm glad that you are so supportive.
 • Thank you so much for allowing us children to borrow your cathedral to make music.  I loved the piece that you played for us on the last day of camp.  I look forward to seeing you in the fall and hope you have a great summer, well, the rest of it anyway!
 • Thanks for playing the piano and being a priest.  You mean a lot to us!
 • Dear Father Ryan, I hope you liked our singing.  Thanks for encouraging us.  I love the way you do Mass.
 • Dear Father, Thank you for the nicest time of my life.  I love you and the church.
 • Father Ryan, thank you for making me feel so welcome.  You are soooo funny!  Anyway, thanks again, and remember:  smile, God loves you!!

Thank you, Jubilate! helpers
 • Thank you for being: beautiful, positive, wonderful role models for us to look up to.  You are amazing!
 • Dear awesome helpers, thanks so much for sticking with us, providing instruction, examples, and encouragement, not to mention those all-important snacks.  Have a great rest of the summer!
 • Thank you for all you did this fun and exciting week.
 • Thank you for helping us in camp and the whole other thing.  We hope that you volunteer next year.  Thanks again.
 • Thanks so much for volunteering to help schola camp, you guys.  You guys mean a lot to us.
 • Thank you for watching over us and helping us sing better.  Anne, Barbara, and Angela, you are the best.
 • Thank you for being so nice to us!
 • Thank you for helping us with the choir class.  Great job.
 • Jubilate! Helper People:  Thank you for helping at this camp.  I hope you had fun.
 • I would like to thank you for helping us get our snacks ready, especially the Italian sodas.  You guys were great.
 • Dear helpers, thank you all for helping us with everything.  You rock!  Don't ever change.
 • Dear three helpers, Thank you for helping me at choir camp.
 • Dear girls, thank you for all your help.  We really needed it.  I hope you gals come back for the next camp.  Well, anyways, hope you had fun at camp with us.
 • I appreciated your silliness and your company.  I can't imagine what camp would have been like if you had not volunteered.

Thank you, Mrs. Dorlene
 • I am really happy you helped me at camp.  You are like a nice grandma.
 • I am really appreciative of all your hard work this week.  It was nice to see you every morning.
 • You play piano really good!
 • You help so much I hope they pay you a lot.
 • Thank you so much for your helpfulness and piano playing!
 • Thanks for helping us and for helping with snacks.
 • We were very glad you could play the piano.  It made the  music better.
 • You are very nice and I like you.

Thank you, Mr Pasi!
 • Thank you for the organ.  I love looking at antique instruments.  I also like to sing with it because it has a different sound.  Anyway, thanks a bunch!
 • Thank you for getting us the beautiful organ in the Chapel.  We sing to it every morning!
 • Thank you for the organ.  So we can sing!
 • Thank you very much for helping St. James have the chapel organ!  Our choir has been singing to it all week long!
 • Wow, thank you so much for contributing to making the Cathedral a beautiful-sounding place with that instrument.  If you were here you would be so proud of our voices with that organ.
 • Thank you so much for lending us the organ.  We sing to it every morning at 9:00am.  It is beautiful.
 • Thank you for giving us the organ that plays wonderful music.  You have been very helpful to the choir camp.
 • Thank you for arranging for the organ to come over.  Even though it's old it makes awesome music.  I really like singing to it.  It is really cool.
 • Thank you for the beautiful instrument in St. James.  It sounds beautiful with our songs.
 • Thank you for arranging for us to use the organ.  It sounds beautiful and give a thank you to the people who own it!
 • Thank you for the organ.  It's so cool.  (God is wonderful!!)
 • Thank you for helping move the organ from there to here.
 • We have had a great time singing with the organ in the chapel.  It's a wonderful instrument, and I was amazed to find out how old it was!  Thank you for the opportunity you helped to give us!
 • Thank you for the organ in the chapel.  I'm thankful that you were able to get that instrument over into the chapel halfway across the world because every single morning we listen to it as we sing.
 • Thank you for loaning the organ.  I wonder how you fitted that huge organ in the door and thanks for going a long way to get it!
 • Thank you so much for lending us the organ!  It has been great singing to it.  I think it is a really cool instrument, and it's awesome that it's about 250 years old!
 

Pictures of the day

For our morning surprise, seminarian J. D. Schrum shared some of his icons with us.  J.D. is studying iconography at Mt. Angel Seminary.  He showed us a finished icon of St. Dominic, and another unfinished one of St. Mary Magdalene.


This icon is waiting to be painted.  Mary Magdalene holds an egg, which is an ancient symbol of resurrection.  (That's why we color eggs at Easter!)


View of us around the font.


Morning praise in the Chapel.  J.D. Schrum led us in prayer this morning.


The keyboard students got to try playing the great Archbishop Murphy Millennium Organ.  It really is as hard as it looks!!!


Now that's a lot of stops!


Singing at the 12:10pm Mass.  Father Ryan read the Gospel story about Zaccheus, who was so short that he had to climb to the top of a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus.  When Jesus saw him, he said, "Zaccheus, come down, I mean to dwell in your house today."


Conducting in perfect 4/4 time!  Down, in, out, up!


Jubilate! women have all the fun!  Special thanks to Barbara, Anne, and Angela, who were there for us all week long, from the first surprise on Monday until the ice cream sundaes on Friday!


Special Friday afternoon treat:  Irish dancing!


The girls taught us an easy Irish dance step.  We weren't sure we did it exactly right, but it was fun!
 


Schola Cantorum Choir Camp 2005.
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