We Are Out There!!

Last weekend some of our PC SBC youth (Choristers) participated in "Voices of the Valley," sponsored by Phoenix Children's Chorus.  It was a full day of fun activities and rehearsals, which culminated in a short concert.  It was a great opportunity for our PC SBC members to work with different directors and experience different teaching techniques.  It was also awesome to sing with a choir of over one hundred children.  Here's the combined group of all participants singing in the concert (PC SBC singers are in light blue shirts):

Also last weekend, a small group of PC SBC singers, mostly from Teen Schola, auditioned to sing the National Anthem for an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game at Chase Field.  Auditioning experience is vital to every musician and whether we are chosen or not, we succeed every time we get an opportunity to sing in a new forum.  Keep your fingers crossed!

It's great to get our members out in the community to fulfill the part of our mission to enhance musical opportunities for youth.  We are having lots of fun too!

We still need your support for our Mission to Rome in December.  We have been invited to sing for Pope Francis at the New Year's Day Papal mass, along with over 2,000 other youth of Pueri Cantores from around the world!  If you would like to support us, please see the YouCaring link on the right side of this page.  Donating by credit card is very easy and we are happy to accept any size donation to support the expenses of traveling to Europe with 47 youth of Pueri Cantores St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

What We're All About

What is Pueri Cantores St. Bernard of Clairvaux?  Simply put, PCSBC is the combined children and youth choirs at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church in Scottsdale, Arizona.  

• Cherub Choir, ages 4 through 1st Grade
• Choristers, 2nd through 8th Grades; 
• Teen Schola, 6th Grade through High School (middle schoolers by audition only).  

But we are so much more than parish children's choirs.

Pueri Cantores is the student choral organization of the Catholic Church.  It is an international federation, founded in 1944 in France.  It has been recognized as a Church movement since 1965.  It exists as "an element of musical beauty in the Church, as a work of Christian education and apostolic activity serving liturgy."

Likewise, PCSBC exists as a way to instill in our children an appreciation of sacred liturgical music.  Children are challenged with quality music that not only advances their musicianship, but also their understanding of Catholic liturgy.  Children learn a repertoire of traditional Latin liturgical and polyphonic classical music.  Children gain an appreciation of the uniquely sacred nature of this music and in turn become partners in the New Evangelization.  There is no better demonstration of the universality and unity of the Catholic Church than seeing children from every continent singing together in the common language of the Church - Latin.

It is with this vision in mind that we seek donors:

• to support the PCSBC mission to participate in regional and international festivals
• to continue their tours of local parochial schools and, in December 2015
• to attend the International Congress in Rome to sing in the New Year's Day mass with Pope Francis.  

These are tremendous opportunities to grow in faith through music and no child should be denied the opportunity based on financial constraints.

In a culture in which many young Catholics drift away from the Church due to a lack of understanding of the centrality of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, PCSBC seeks to instill a love of the sacredness of the mass.  This will keep our children close to the heart of Jesus and become a new generation of Catholics who can be part of the New Evangelization while appreciating the tradition of the Catholic Church.

If you would like to support our mission to propagate the faith and musicianship of our children, please visit our page on YouCare and make a donation.