size of the sanctuary, the choir occupied the front benches outside the sanctuary. The Very Reverend John Joseph Lynch, Charbonnel's successor as Bishop of Toronto, a stern episcopal autocrat very critical of the Basilian approach to the education of young seminarians, insisted that the students who he judged were making inappropriate contact with young women in the congregation demanded that they be segregated. Vincent responded that there was no room for a choir in the small sanctuary and if the choir could no longer occupy the front rows in the nave there would be no sung Sunday High Mass. The bishop was unmoved and Vincent reluctantly agreed to their removal. As a result, for a number of years sung Sunday High Mass was discontinued. The impasse was resolved in 1878 when the sanctuary was enlarged. Music at St Basil's expanded when Father Patrick Brennan was appointed pastor in 1881. Brenan, the first pastor who was not the College Rector, served as pastor for two decades. A music enthusiast, he oversaw the re-organization of the choir; formed a children's choir that sang at the early Sunday morning Mass and introduced congregational singing. He also arranged for the collection and edition of a group of Catholic hymns for use in congregational singing. Arranged and edited by Father Murray and some Sisters of St. Joseph, and produced in the local Salvation Army print shop, the collection was published in 1887 as the St. Basil's Hymnal. The hymnal quickly gained wide popularity; it has undergone several editions and remains in use to this day. That same year, 1887, saw the installation of a new organ in an expanded organ loft. In this period, St. Basil's was known throughout the city as the place where the finest church music could be heard. Church music at St. Basil's received a setback in 1905 when Pope Pius X issued a decree that from henceforth Roman Catholic church choirs should be composed solely of males. This forced the dissolution of St. Basil's mixed choir, much to the dismay of its members and the parishioners. Some years later, this unfortunate decree was quietly set aside. In 1919 a new organ manufactured by Casavant Frères was installed. It is one of the finest church pipe organs in North America, The organ console was replaced in 1960. This change was followed with a partial revision of the instrument in 1962 by