Welcome to Our Lady of Pompeii Music Ministry page!
Our Ministry is centered on bringing others to Christ through the enhancement of the liturgy, and through the love
and joy we share with one another!
and joy we share with one another!
Our Lady of Pompeii enjoys a lively and comprehensive music program. Music Ministers at Our Lady of Pompeii use their gift of music to serve the parishioners at weekend liturgies, Holy Days, and other special liturgies throughout the year. Vocalists and instrumentalists of any age are all welcome to this exciting ministry!
Mixed ChoirThis ensemble is composed of youth and adults of all levels. We sing all genres of worship music! This choir is for everyone - guitarists, vocalists, percussion, woodwinds, brass - you name it!
We sing every Sunday at 10 am Mass! Rehearsals are 7pm every Thursday. 
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Youth/Teen ChoirAll teens 6th grade to college are invited to share their gifts of music! Singers, guitarists, percussion, woodwinds, and brass, any level, are invited to join us in contemporary worship. We sing every Saturday for 4:30 pm Mass.
Rehearsal is Thursday 3:15-5pm and 3:30 pm on Saturday prior to Mass. Rockstars for Jesus!The OLP Children's Choir welcomes all rock stars Kindergarten and up for a live wire experience worshipping and praising Jesus!. We sing the last Sunday of every month at 11:30 am Mass! Come rock out for Jesus.
Rehearsals are the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Tuesday of every month. at 7:00 pm |
Our CD
"Melodies of Prayer" music CD featuring our Youth Ministry and Children's Choir Rockstars for Jesus is now available in the Church and Parish Office.
Thank you for supporting our young disciples as they share their love of Jesus through music!
Thank you for supporting our young disciples as they share their love of Jesus through music!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT WITH OUR CAN DRIVE!
Western NY Catholic:
Our Lady of Pompeii Parish holds faith-enrichment concert
with Mary Palmer May 16, 2022
Patrick J. Buechi May 4, 2022
Our Lady of Pompeii will hold their final Faith-Enrichment Series presentation with an hour of contemporary Christian and original music highlighting God’s sense of humor led by Mary Palmer, director of music for the Lancaster parish. Palmer promises opportunities for prayer and meditation throughout the night.“It’s meant to reach people in a raw level,” she explained of the concert. “Music is a very vulnerable thing, whether you’re the listener or the music minister, and it’s meant to take us to a place where you’re raw and you can encounter Jesus. Often, we hide behind words. We can hide behind a persona or even maybe an assumption of who we think people want us to be. But music can’t lie. Music is pure. Music is emotional. It is the one gift from heaven we can give back to God.”
Our Lady of Pompeii’s Faith-Enrichment Series invites inspirational speakers once a month to offer prayer experiences, inspirational talks, and Christian music.
Palmer is a frequent sight at special Masses and presentations throughout the diocese. She is the director of choirs at West Seneca East Middle School, director of music for Our Lady of Pompeii Parish and Niagara University. She also volunteers with the Deacon Formation Program.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Music Education, a master’s degree in Music Education, and is a New York state-certified teacher. Her comprehensive master’s project centered around music for children with special needs and emotional disturbance. In this project, she created a K-5 curriculum specifically geared toward minority children from the inner city. Music as empowerment, emotional awareness, and structure has become the backbone of her role as educator and music minister.
Her early dreams of being a professional mainstream musician took her to Las Vegas, where she studied voice with Deborah Lobe, personal voice coach for Bette Midler. During her short stint there, Palmer was privileged to sing at the Stratosphere, Las Vegas Hilton and Flamingo Library, among other venues.
“I started out in Vegas. I was going to be a rock star,” she said. “I had a beautiful conversion out there, and when I came home, the only job I could find was in a Catholic Church. I didn’t want to play music anymore. I just wanted to be the DRE and youth minister.”
She found herself back at her childhood parish. Her pastor knew she played guitar and piano, and told her to learn the organ. Soon, she found herself performing at weddings and funerals around the diocese.
After learning contemporary music by the likes of Matt Maher, she became a traveling troubadour for the diocese.
“It was just word of mouth. All of a sudden, I’m playing at all these different churches and I love it because it’s all for Jesus,” she said.
Some of her musical adventures led her to sing for Masses at parishes throughout Dublin and Galway, Ireland, chapels and churches throughout Poland, St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, St. Mary Our Lady Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, and at the tomb of St. John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
She likes working for different priests in different environments and having different audiences to see how others worship.
“It helps me stretch my own spirituality to understand that the way I Jesus is not the way everybody Jesuses,” she explained. “If I’m going to be a servant, I need to have all these tools in my tool box to help feed them through music and bring them to Christ.”
Our Lady of Pompeii Parish holds faith-enrichment concert
with Mary Palmer May 16, 2022
Patrick J. Buechi May 4, 2022
Our Lady of Pompeii will hold their final Faith-Enrichment Series presentation with an hour of contemporary Christian and original music highlighting God’s sense of humor led by Mary Palmer, director of music for the Lancaster parish. Palmer promises opportunities for prayer and meditation throughout the night.“It’s meant to reach people in a raw level,” she explained of the concert. “Music is a very vulnerable thing, whether you’re the listener or the music minister, and it’s meant to take us to a place where you’re raw and you can encounter Jesus. Often, we hide behind words. We can hide behind a persona or even maybe an assumption of who we think people want us to be. But music can’t lie. Music is pure. Music is emotional. It is the one gift from heaven we can give back to God.”
Our Lady of Pompeii’s Faith-Enrichment Series invites inspirational speakers once a month to offer prayer experiences, inspirational talks, and Christian music.
Palmer is a frequent sight at special Masses and presentations throughout the diocese. She is the director of choirs at West Seneca East Middle School, director of music for Our Lady of Pompeii Parish and Niagara University. She also volunteers with the Deacon Formation Program.
She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Music Education, a master’s degree in Music Education, and is a New York state-certified teacher. Her comprehensive master’s project centered around music for children with special needs and emotional disturbance. In this project, she created a K-5 curriculum specifically geared toward minority children from the inner city. Music as empowerment, emotional awareness, and structure has become the backbone of her role as educator and music minister.
Her early dreams of being a professional mainstream musician took her to Las Vegas, where she studied voice with Deborah Lobe, personal voice coach for Bette Midler. During her short stint there, Palmer was privileged to sing at the Stratosphere, Las Vegas Hilton and Flamingo Library, among other venues.
“I started out in Vegas. I was going to be a rock star,” she said. “I had a beautiful conversion out there, and when I came home, the only job I could find was in a Catholic Church. I didn’t want to play music anymore. I just wanted to be the DRE and youth minister.”
She found herself back at her childhood parish. Her pastor knew she played guitar and piano, and told her to learn the organ. Soon, she found herself performing at weddings and funerals around the diocese.
After learning contemporary music by the likes of Matt Maher, she became a traveling troubadour for the diocese.
“It was just word of mouth. All of a sudden, I’m playing at all these different churches and I love it because it’s all for Jesus,” she said.
Some of her musical adventures led her to sing for Masses at parishes throughout Dublin and Galway, Ireland, chapels and churches throughout Poland, St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, St. Mary Our Lady Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo, and at the tomb of St. John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
She likes working for different priests in different environments and having different audiences to see how others worship.
“It helps me stretch my own spirituality to understand that the way I Jesus is not the way everybody Jesuses,” she explained. “If I’m going to be a servant, I need to have all these tools in my tool box to help feed them through music and bring them to Christ.”