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I can think of no more appropriate piece of music to sing today, especially as we share a collective grief this weekend over the horrific event which took place in Connecticut on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWords are inadequate at a time like this, but music can be supportive and healing in profound ways we can not fully understand. It was Leonard Bernstein, Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who said just days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy: \u201cThis will be our response to violence \u2013 to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly, than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invite us all to join now in a moment of silent reflection for all the people personally affected by this tragedy, even as we prepare to perform this music which celebrates the \u201cPrince of Peace.\u201d The first words we will sing, offered by our tenor section, will be words of comfort, and the final words sung by all of us will be words of joy and affirmation. 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