Preparation each week begins on Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM in the upstairs Kiely Choir Room, and resumes on Sunday morning at Nine O’Clock AM prior to the start of the Ten O’Clock Service.

Anthems are sung in unison or parts (soprano, alto, tenor and bass). Hymns often include descants taken by the high sopranos. Availability of singers can affect the choice of anthems. If you enjoy a full sound each Sunday, please come and join us.

During the Choir Summer Schedule of July and August, volunteer soloists or ensembles from the choir participate in the Nine O’Clock Services. They rehearse as schedules allow.

Current Book Club Selection
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man who would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder.

“And I was drawn to the man himself. He worked extraordinary hours. In fact, I don’t think he sleeps more than an hour or two most nights. Here was a person who seemed to be practicing more than he preached, who seemed to be living, as nearly as any human being can, without hypocrisy. A challenging person, the kind of person whose example can irritate you by making you feel you’ve never done anything as important, and yet, in his presence, those kinds of feelings tended to vanish. In the past, when I’d imagined a person with credentials like his, I’d imagined someone dour and self-righteous, but he was very friendly and irreverent, and quite funny. He seemed like someone I’d like to know, and I thought that if I did my job well, a reader would feel that way, too."

This is Tracy Kidder’s description of Paul Farmer, a specialist in infectious diseases and an attending physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Farmer founded a hospital and health center in a small Haitian community, hours from the capital and at the end of a road in a region destitute even by Haiti’s standards. The health center was part of an extensive community-based health network linked to a hospital. For more than twenty years, Farmer spent many months there every year, often taking care of patients himself. The health network is now supported by a Boston-based foundation, Partners in Health, and Farmer has begun similar work in Rwanda. The challenging, inspiring story of Farmer and his work is well told by Kidder in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man who would Cure the World. Kidder’s best-selling book is the new selection for St. Michael’s Book Club.

For more information, please speak to Susan Plume or Christine Whittaker.