Amazing Cathedral Choir Entertains Passengers at 38,000 Feet

Will Maule : Aug 15, 2019
Faithwire.com

"This is taking the English choral tradition to new heights." -Rev. Canon Leah Vasey-Saunders

(United Kingdom) — [Faithwire.com] Passengers aboard a plane traveling from Poland to the UK were met with a beautiful sound when a touring British Cathedral choir decided to break into song mid-flight. (Image: Screengrab-Wakefield Cathedral-Twitter /via Faithwire)

The choir, hailing from Wakefield in Leeds, England, was returning from a tour of Poland when it decided to provide passengers with a rendition of the Tantum Ergo—a Medieval Latin hymn written by St Thomas Aquinas, the immensely influential 13th-century Catholic priest.

"The pilot asked us if we'd like to sing, we were all initially tired and unprepared," one of the choristers told the Pontefract and Castleford Express. "But after he encouraged us more we managed to mobilize and flash mob the plane"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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