Mother Maddalena and Mother Constance frequently sought out Monsignor Edward McGlynn. He had studied in Rome and they appreciated the prayerful way he conducted the Sacred Liturgy. Monsignor McGlynn once said of music:
I confess that I can never hear sweet music without being stirred to the depths of my heart. I feel that what little there is in me, stirred exceedingly by sweet music. I have always felt in church, that while I heard the music, I was admiring not so much the words that the choir was singing, as the sweet strains that were more eloquent, touching and pathetic than even the words themselves, and I am pretty well satisfied that such preaching as I was able to give to the flock that honored me by its affection was certainly no less worthy of the subject because of the inspiration that always came from sweet melody and harmony.