It should be quite a funeral…

BOSTON (AP) – Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and tenor Placido Domingo will
perform at the funeral Mass for Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The Rev. Philip Dabney, associate pastor of Boston’s Mission
Church, says Saturday’s service will be a “regular Catholic
funeral” – with superb music.
In addition, there will be a contingent from the Boston Symphony
Orchestra and a soprano from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
Several clergy members will be on hand. The Rev. Donald Monan,
the chancellor of Boston College, will be the principal celebrant.
The Rev. Mark Hession of Our Lady of Victories Parish on Cape
Cod will delivery the homily, and Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley
will lead the final prayers of commendation.
President Barack Obama will delivery the eulogy.

Father Monan was the President of Boston College when I was a student there.  He is the one who approved my effort to establish an FM station on the campus, WZBC.  He signed the license application to the FCC, and his was the first voice heard on the station when it officially signed on the air. Small world…