MINISTRY STAFF
Marc Alan Brunelle, DMA
Minister of Liturgy & Music
As Minister of Liturgy & Music at St. Marcelline, Marc is responsible for planning, coordinating and evaluating all liturgical and para-liturgical (non-Eucharistic) worship at St. Marcelline. This includes a wide array of tasks including creating the weekly Worship Aid for Sunday Mass, drafting the General Intercessions, and collborating with his Associate Minister of Liturgy & Music to plan sacred music for all parish worship celebrations. He is also responsible for training, scheduling and formation for more than 300 liturgical ministers currently serving the parish in a variety of capacities - from Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers to Ushers, Altar Servers, Mass Coordinators, and Greeters, to name a few. He also oversees the Art and Environment and Flower Ministries.
St. Marcelline boasts a talented forty-voice Sanctuary Choir and the Jubilation Ringers known throughout the Archdiocese for superb liturgical music. In 2003, Marc produced and conducted a widely acclaimed CD featuring the Sanctuary Choir and Jubilation Ringers, as well as began an annual Spring Concert series, now in its seventh year, which feature the musical forces at St. Marcelline. In 2004, the Sanctuary Choir was heard in concert at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians conference held in Chicago, and at the Catholic Festival of Faith held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in 2006. At a special invitation by the Vatican, the Sanctuary Choir traveled to Italy to be the principle choir at a Solemn High Mass at the Basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City, the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, and performed a highly acclaimed, sold out concert at the Church of the Gesu in the city of Rome in December of 2006. In the summer of 2008, the Choir had a very successful tour of Prague, Austria and Germany, with sold out concerts at St. Nicholas in Prague and St. Peter's in Vienna and sang a Solemn High Mass at Salzburg Cathedral.
Previously to coming to Chicago, Marc was Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Chapel Music at Wadhams Hall Seminary-College, and Director of Music & Liturgy at the Cathedral of Saint Mary in upstate NY, as well as music consultant for the Diocese of Ogdensburg, NY. Dr. Brunelle is currently Assistant Conductor of Heartland Voices in Elgin. Dr. Brunelle holds the Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance from Rhode Island College, School of Music, and the Master of Music in Choral Conducting from King's College, Cambridge, England, while studying with renowned English conductor, Sir David Willcocks, and holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the Graduate Theological Foundation and is in demand as a clinician in choral technique and liturgical music throughout the US.
Mrs. Patricia M. Stewart, BS
Associate Minister of Liturgy & Music
Mrs. Stewart has studied piano and organ at Sacred Heart Academy in Springfield, Illinois under the direction of Dominican nuns. Mrs. Stewart graduated from Illinois State University with a degree in Elementary Education, with a special area of Music.
Pat has been at St. Marcelline Church in Schaumburg, Illinois for 25 years and is currently Associate Minister of Music and Liturgy and the Director of the Jubilation Ringers and the Joyful Noise Children's Choir. Mrs. Stewart participated in the first Liturgy School held by the National Pastoral Musicians and was the local coordinator for the NPM Handbell School at Loyola University in 1995. Mrs. Stewart holds a diploma from the Liturgy Institute of Chicago, now known as the Parish Liturgy Program.
For over a decade, Pat has been active as both an auxiliary and central music staff member for the Archdiocese of Chicago. Members of the Jubilation Ringers, under Mrs. Stewart’s direction, have participated in NPM regional and national conventions in Cincinnati, Chicago, and Milwaukee.