The beautiful Parish of St. Mary is located in Wrentham Massachusetts. 

Our director of music, Alex Kuznezov, is an accomplished musician serving the Archdiocese of Boston as a choral director, musician, composer, teacher, and Music Minister for over 20 years. To his credit, Alex's compositions are published by Resource Publications and Oregon Catholic Press and has cataloged six CD recordings as a member of the Liturgical vocal group With Faith.  The group has performed at concerts, youth conventions and workshops throughout New England and were one of the featured groups annually at the LaSalette Summer Concert Series as well as their CoffeeHouse Concerts in Attleboro, MA. Their song "The Peace of Killarney" received extensive air-play on numerous Irish-radio programs and the group had many appearances on Boston Cathloic Television. Alex wrote, directed, and scored the musical stage production of "Come Follow Me" in 2001, which received  wonderful reviews from Boston Herald collumnist- Beverly Beckham. Alex also wrote the musical "Emmaus" in 2006 which was performed at St. Mary's Church. 

****************************************************************************************************     

12 memorable songs for those peaceful moments of prayerful tranquility are now available at:                                                                             - Amazon.com,                                                               and iTunes                                                                                

 A direct link to   iTUNES   can be found on the With Faith menu.

                            Click the link here.......for the Chaplet

****************************************************************************************************

We invite "all" who enjoy Singing God's Praise, to join our wonderful choirs.

This past year was a wonderful and challenging year for our program as the Saint Mary's choir was featured in the Christmas Concert and the musical of Emmaus.  I wish to thank the parish for its support of these programs which took much time and effort for everyone involved. It's wonderful watching our parish grow in spirit and faith.

• Victorian Christmas Village -
• Friday Nov. 26th 2:00 pm - 7:00pm   /    Saturday Nov. 27th 10 am to 3 pm
• Christmas Concert 2010 - Dec. TBA

 Mark these on your calendar.

"I'd like to thank everyone who has participated in our music program, both past and present, young and old, and making it the joy that it is today"

Technical  notes:            *****************************

I can't tell you how often someone asks me after Mass .."Who was playing the organ?"  

or......................."Is my guitar somehow hooked up to the organ?"

• Well..... for those interested musicians out there.......
  
  The music that you hear at our liturgies incorporates a unique blend of analog and digital instrumentation. My set up consists of a Roland-ready Ovation and Godin 6 string guitar, an Ovation 12 string,  routed through a  Roland Gr-33 and GI 20 digital interface patched into and thru a Roland JV2020 synth module. The signals are split, with the analog passing through a Roland AD-3 Acoustic Processor and into an Alesis 3630 compressor while the digital is routed through the Alesis 3630 compressor. Both signals then pass through a BBE 862 Sonic Maximizer and Behringer Virtualizer, routed to a Spirit Folio12 channel mixer. This sound is absolutely perfect for a church setting! It can create a soft instrumentation (piano & or strings with a choir), perfectly balanced set "behind" the vocals..... or it has the strength of a pipe organ for all majestic processionals and recessionals.
  
  

CONTACT ME:  Alex  by     E-Mail

SAINT MARY'S in Franklin, MA. Sunday 5:00pm Contemporary Mass

Alex also shares his music ministry to Saint Mary's in Franklin where he coordinates the Contemporary Music program from September through May. Various gifted singers  cantor each week at the Sunday evening 5:00 Mass. A fabulous Teen Choir sings once a month praising the Word of God in Song. Please make a point to attend this wonderful Liturgy. It truly is a wonderful experience. 

The lovely song you are listening to, "Heaven in a Wild Flower"- is written by Bill Douglas and is available in the collection entitled "Circle of the Moon" and was also performed at the musical production of "Come Follow Me" ( available here in the With Faith Pages)