The Christ Child resting on his hand made manger in our cloister choir has a ring seat as his Poor Clares attempt radio broadcasting. Radio Maria asked us to broadcast our Holy Masses as well as Lauds and Vespers during the month of January. Most of the seminarians in the Netherlands and Belgium are still home on vacation, and others who usually fill these time slots are also overloaded. With great hesitation we said ‘yes’ and the saga began.
First snags involved just getting the main transmission box to talk to our antiquated phone system. Then after three days of broadcasting Vespers, it was decided our microphones just were not up to par. So today the young technician came with an impressive array of microphones and what seemed a mile of cable. The final result was two microphones for nun’s choir where Vespers is chanted, three for the side choir where we share in the offering of Mass each morning, and still one more microphone for the Mass altar.
At the first Christmas Little Jesus watched while mounds of straw were pushed this way and that by singing shepherds; here He watches the sisters wind and unwind cables and tap at microphones. The song though is the same, Gloria in excelsis Deo!
