Former Gloria Dei Choir at Our Lady of Guadalupe through October 2023

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas! Enjoy this favorite that was always part of every Christmas Mass for the Gloria Dei Choir at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church - "A Christmas Lullaby" by John Rutter. Peace, love, and hope in the Christ Child on this Christmas Day. (Recorded during Lessons and Carols, December 14, 2018.)

"Christmas Lullaby" Composed by John RutterPerformed by the Gloria Dei ChoirCharles Welling, OrganistLorraine Joy Welling, ConductorOur Lady of Guadalupe Cat...

12/02/2023

We are so proud of our resident rocket scientist, composer, and Bass from the OLG GDC, Todd J. Barber, who will have two of his Christmas compositions performed in a concert conducted by Donald Brineger this Tuesday at St. Andrew’s in Pasadena! One of his pieces being performed is his arrangement of “What Child is This” that we have sung every year at the end of the Christmas Season (usually on Epiphany) every year for decades, accompanied as always by the lovely and talented flautist, Sara Andon. The other is an arrangement of “O Holy Night” that the GDC has also sung before. Congrats to Todd and we hope some can make it to this concert!

11/23/2023

O God Beyond All Praising
We worship you today
And sing the love amazing
That songs cannot repay
For we can only wonder at ev'ry gift you send
At blessings without number and mercies without end:
We lift our hearts before you
And wait upon your word,
We honor and adore you
Our great and mighty Lord.

Happy Thanksgiving from the Gloria Dei Choir - although we are unable to be there making music together right now at Our Lady of Guadalupe, we celebrate the music we have made in praise of our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and in celebration of our liturgies and special events at our church. This video is from the recent 50th Anniversary celebration of two of our beloved choir members, Rick Richard Shubsda Jr. and Mary Jane Shubsda. It was also a popular anthem and hymn that we enjoyed singing frequently. Wishing all blessings without number and a joyous celebration of blessings, family, friends, and loved ones this Thanksgiving and always.

O God Beyond All Praisingby Gustav Holst, arr. ProulxGloria Dei ChoirOur Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, La HabraCharles Welling, organistLorraine Welling...

09/18/2023

Thank you to all the Gloria Dei Choir members who came out to support our new membership sign ups, especially our Choir Advisory Board Members who manned the table, who interacted with and helped convince our new members to sign up last night and today! We signed up 10 new members, with two more having previously expressing interest! Looking forward to having 12 potential new members join our awesome choir! See you all on October 5th for our first rehearsal and October 15 for our first 10am Sunday Mass back!

09/17/2023

THIS WEEKEND: we’re outside after Mass signing up new members at Our Lady of Guadalupe Roman Catholic Church, La Habra for our Gloria Dei Choir! We had a couple great new member sign ups this evening! Join us!

Our regular Thursday rehearsals will be starting again on October 5th and we will return to singing for the Sunday 10am Masses on October 15th!

See you soon!

07/17/2023

Can it be 20 years ago?!

In 2003, the Gloria Dei Choir went to New York City and sang the Fauré Requiem under the direction of John Rutter at Carnegie Hall and sang for a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral with our Pastor concelebrating. What a wonderful trip that was!

06/05/2023

Choir party at the home of Rick and MJ Shubsda to celebrate the (almost) end of our season! We’ll be celebrating Corpus Christi and the Mass of Thanksgiving for (soon to be) Father David Moreno next Sunday at the 10am Mass with Bishop Kevin Vann as our last official Sunday of the choir season for the Gloria Dei Choir, but we’ll be making a special appearance on July 2nd at the 10am Mass to welcome in our new Administrator of our Parish, Father Will Goldin!

11/28/2021

We welcomed in Advent today with two beautiful a ca****la anthems, “Heavenly Light” by A. Kopylow and “E’en So Lord Jesus, Quickly Come” by Paul Manz. We are also thrilled that the Coro Hispano also returned to their 8:00am Music Ministry at Mass today! Happy New Year!

11/22/2021

This Sunday saw and heard the triumphant return of the Gloria Dei Choir to the 10am Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Feast of Christ the King. We sang “The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns” arranged by David N. Johnson and “Psalm 150” by Lloyd Larson. Praise the Lord!

11/14/2021

Yesterday, we said a final goodbye to Terry Kennedy, who had been a Bass in the Gloria Dei Choir for several years. His Memorial Mass was the first mass for which our Gloria Dei Choir has sung together in 20 months, since the pandemic began. Our main anthem was “How Can I Keep From Singing,” a fitting tribute for this wonderful man. We know he was singing with us from the heavenly choirs. Our love and prayers are with his family and all who knew him.