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| HOSTED BY SAINT JOHN'S ABBEY AND UNIVERSITY |
| Collegeville, Minnesota |
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| June 17, 2000 |
| Today is the final day of the Liturgical Music Conference. We will be singing for the closing Mass this morning, so once again we get up early for rehearsal. |
| There is added excitement today because we will be going on tour this afternoon to Milwaukee. |
| The Mass was beautiful and moving. Fr. J. Michael Joncas, a composer and theology professor at the University of St. Thomas, was the celebrant. Two of us were cantors for a responsorial psalm written by Fr. Joncas. At communion we sang "Ego sum panis vivus" (I am the living bread) by Palestrina, which is becoming the favorite piece of most of us choristers. |
| The rest of our day was spent on the bus heading for Milwaukee. |
 We boarded one of the nicest buses any of us had seen, and we got comfortable for the long eight-hour ride ahead. |
 We had a lot of good conversation on the bus with each other and the staff and counselors. |
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 We even blew some bubbles to take up time. |
 As boredom took over one counselor, Kevin O'Brien, was brave enough to let some of the girls experiment with their make-up. |
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| We ate at fast-food restaurants for supper. At about 9 pm we arrived at the dorms of Marquette University in Milwaukee. (This is a Jesuit University.) We learned a little bit about the Jesuits, and we decided that the dorms aren't as nice here as at St. John's. Then we sang Compline and went to bed. |
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