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The Matalatala Choir of Mabitac

The Matalatala choir was organised from the group of elementary grade school pupils and with some highschool students which were selected to be members of the choir from the religion class in 1985 from age 11 and up. In 1987 since Matalatala choir already exists, delegates of seminarians from St. Peter's College Seminary in San Pablo City, Laguna were assigned in Mabitac for apostolic mission and they organised PYCL or Parish Youth Council of the Laity which was circulated from all other Parishes in the Diocese of Laguna, Philippines, which is now known as Parish Youth Ministry or PYM. In Mabitac, with its magnificent location of the Roman Catholic Church building, featuring a 126-stair, overlooking the view of Laguna Lake from the veranda around the Parish of Nuestra Senora de Candelaria is such a great attraction that makes us to be proud of, even though we do not regularly serve there because we have our own Chapel in our barangay, the PYC-Matalatala chapter were busy with their action to serve as youth of the Church. Although, the main idea or one of the aim of PYCL is to unite the youths to be active in the Parish, it happened that, some members of Matalatala Choir were also members of PYC, so it became one group in a manner of speaking and as the time went by, members became fewer  since that they were already busy in college, working in other places or got married, and some others remained and still participating in the choir until the members were also added with the newly recruit youths  from the group of teen agers, like "barkada" or group of friends or peers, whence they considered themselves as family and even developed the amity of multiple groups as a whole as well.

In 1995, all youths became active, since that was the time where Pope John Paul II visited the Philippines. There were lots of unforgettable memories or I mean activities, like “visita iglesia” or visiting other Parish Churches, swimming, recollections, choir practices, joined with other choral group, Christmas presentation, meditation on Lenten season , etc…. all the youths were full of life even at the time when the Pope asserted to celebrate the Jubilee Year of our Lord all over the world as it was being observed in three consecutive years in preparation before the year 2000 which was started on 1997 till the final celebration of the Jubilee year 2000 or also called 2nd Millennium or Y2K! And speaking of Y2K, is this a bug in the computer?! huh! anyway, that was the time also were most people became busy for the interim JUBILEE year, and finally the choir members organised anew with the combination of a new batch and started out to participate in the Holy Mass during the Christmas season in 1999, songfests and concert participation, and what the most exciting into this is that, until now 2008 they are still dedicated to be a choir and keep in tact with Matalatala choir despite the fact that some of them have their own family, some of them are graduating in college or working, and hey! I have discovered that "all" as in all of them belong to the top section with good grades and some have received honors in their highschool days or even in elementary, whatahhhhh!!...woW!

Well, most of the songs we sing are in A Cappella (SATB arrangements); including the collections of classical songs from Handel’s "Canti corum", "Hallelujah Chorus”, “Ode to Joy"..., other English songs like “Lead me Lord, "Love is the Answer", Anima Cristi" ......and Tagalog songs such as"Kristo", "Hesus", Mahal Ka Niya, Hindi kita malilimutan"etc. There are also songs which are originally in unison arrangement and being modified to become in SATB arrangement.

The primary purpose of this is to promote the choir or even the participation of the youth itself and for additional facts about the Parish of Nuestra Senora de Candelaria for its wonderful solemn place of the church.See supported pictures.