Our Shrine is known for many blessed things, perhaps none more than the quality of Sacred Music that resounds there to lift hearts and glorify God.  BUT, sustaining and growing our music’s excellence into the next generation is a significant challenge - we need your help. 

The expense of singers & musicians continues to rise, along with their scarcity.  Choir singers and choral offerings have had to be reduced during many recent masses.  Our growing Youth Schola, which cultivates the hearts and voices of the young, requires more funding as it blossoms, along with Schola scholarships for youth in need.  Most importantly, we sense a holy call to further expand and beautify our program, and the glory it brings God, along with the fruit it offers to the faithful.  This call could go unanswered without much needed support.

With your help, we can secure our Sacred Music’s legacy, evangelize more young people through our Youth Schola, and glorify our Lord evermore greatly.  By reaching our goal, we can fully fund the Youth Schola’s expected growth, plus restore and enrich the breadth and depth of our Sacred Music and the many graces it brings to our community.  Through your support we will further glorify God by augmenting our wonderful choir during Holy Mass and Feast Days, provide special ensembles, and offer Sacred Music concerts that sanctify and edify our home community and visitors. 

Extolled and fostered by popes, doctors, saints and faithful across history, Sacred Music plays a unique role in solemn liturgy, especially when offered with the sense of prayer, dignity and beauty befitting the very presence of God.  St. Martin’s has been richly blessed by extraordinary talent who offer this in heartfelt ministry, along with countless past & current benefactors whose sacrifice has made it possible - even restoring our exquisite, historic pipe organ.  From the “supreme model” of sacred music in the Roman rite - Gregorian chant, to sacred polyphony, and pious hymns, our shared work to cultivate the glorious musical patrimony of the centuries with diligence and love is a special mark of grace upon our Shrine.  

Please click the donate button to help protect & grow the legacy & excellence of St. Martin’s Sacred Music!