Sacred Music and Sacred Visual Art Honour Our Blessed Mother on the Feast of the Assumption

Sacred Art and Music at Holy Rosary Cathedral — Epiphany Sacred Arts Guild Member Patricia Ballard attends the William Byrd Latin Mass for 5 voices on the Feast of the Assumption at Holy Rosary Cathedral on August 15, 2019. The Motet Chamber Choir gathers choristers from across the archdiocese.

The pipe organ of Holy Rosary Cathedral lit in blue and violet — View of the magnificent pipe organ and choir immediately after the sung mass.

Sacred Visual Art and Sacred Music Go Hand in Hand to Honour Our Blessed Mother.

Detail of The Coronation of the Virgin, a painting in progress by Patricia Ballard — The Coronation of the Virgin (detail — work in progress from the studio of Patricia Ballard, Guild artist). Feast Day, Aug. 22.

Many choristers who attended the 2019 Sacred Music Symposium this summer in Aldergrove sang traditional Gregorian chant at this mass. The Epiphany Sacred Arts Guild displayed sacred visual art at the symposium.