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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:04 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Go ye afar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 82
Re: Go ye afar
A simple Google search pulls up this: This is the Missionary Hymn of the Holy Ghost Fathers, and exhorts missionaries to take their message to the ends of the earth. However the lyrics are not specific to the Spiritan (Holy Ghost) Fathers, and it can be used by lay-people and ones from any religious...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Easter Greetings 2024
- Replies: 1
- Views: 345
Re: Easter Greetings 2024
Many thanks, Dom P ! Not sure I like the sound of "forumites", though. A bit too close to Sodomites for comfort......Dom Perignon wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:50 pm We wish all forumites a happy and holy Easter. May all your liturgies have gone as well as you hoped!
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Triduum Planning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3371
Re: Triduum Planning
The very difficult issue we suffer from is that readers are very reluctant to practice, so when everyone else - cleaners, sacristan. servers, flowers and musicians are at the top of their game ..... readers are often ill-prepared and stumble and mispronounce. Mentions of this problem go down like a...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Triduum Planning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3371
Re: Triduum Planning
The very difficult issue we suffer from is that readers are very reluctant to practice, so when everyone else - cleaners, sacristan. servers, flowers and musicians are at the top of their game ..... readers are often ill-prepared and stumble and mispronounce. Mentions of this problem go down like a...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:19 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Triduum Planning
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3371
Re: Triduum Planning
The very difficult issue we suffer from is that readers are very reluctant to practice, so when everyone else - cleaners, sacristan. servers, flowers and musicians are at the top of their game ..... readers are often ill-prepared and stumble and mispronounce (I am still recovering from a Good Frida...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 1:25 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Happy Christmas!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23280
Happy Christmas!
I hope that all participants in this forum are enjoying a blessed, peace-filled Christmas, and a well-deserved rest after their labours.
Here's to 2024!
Here's to 2024!
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:38 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Mary How Sweetly Falls that Word
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9836
Re: Mary How Sweetly Falls that Word
Although your documentation shows that this hymn appeared in the St Basil Hymnal until the 1950s, that hymnal was never used on this side of the Pond. I have never heard of either the hymn or its author. It has not appeared in any UK hymnal in recent times.
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:11 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Advent Wreath
- Replies: 1
- Views: 85359
The Advent Wreath
Yes, Advent may seem a long way off, but it begins in just two months from now. Here are some thoughts about the Advent Wreath, a subject that can sometimes arouse controversy. I wonder if yours is one of the many parishes where the Advent Wreath is blessed at the beginning of every Mass during Adve...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:10 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: New facebook Group
- Replies: 17
- Views: 175783
Re: New facebook Group
Apologies for resurrecting an old topic. I know several members of this forum belong to the Facebook group mentioned.... I actually set up the group, but I wanted to let members know that I now no longer have Facebook access, following a very nasty hacking, so the group admin is now solely and safe...
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 5:00 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Festal Greetings!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 30412
Festal Greetings!
A happy and blessed Easter to all those who still frequent this forum.
I hope your celebrations have been serene without too many untoward incidents, and may the Easter season be a time of joy and repose for you after the exertions of Holy Week!
Christ is risen!
I hope your celebrations have been serene without too many untoward incidents, and may the Easter season be a time of joy and repose for you after the exertions of Holy Week!
Christ is risen!
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: New Translation of the Lectionary incoming
- Replies: 34
- Views: 197015
Re: New Translation of the Lectionary incoming
I am sufficiently comfortable as a female member of the human race not to be bothered about 'inclusive' language, except that it make for some very clumsy edits in psalms and hymns. I find replacing every use of the words 'he, him, his' with 'God, who, whose' is a pain aesthetically and vocally. It...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:52 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 47835
Re: Recorded music in church, etc
I wonder how the legislation would apply to livestreams, or videos for that matter, of church services - especially if for some reason the vast majority of people in the country were unable to attend church in person for some reason. :wink: If a radio, tape or wire-recorder is not OK, then I cannot...
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Olives or Palms?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 32943
Re: Olives or Palms?
Back in the 1980s you would often find parishes where people were encouraged to bring to church branches cut from the hedge in their garden, etc. The clergy would have the big old dusty palm fronds, but everyone else would bring their own branches, just as the crowds did on the first Palm Sunday I'm...
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 47835
Re: Recorded music in church, etc
Yes, the legislation is 65 years old. However, it's worth bearing in mind that it was drawn up in an age where the liturgy was far less participatory than it is now. Presumably the intent behind it was authenticity. No artificial aids, but real people doing real things to support the prayer life of ...
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 9:01 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 47835
Recorded music in church, etc
A recent thread mentioned the use of recorded music in church. It appears that many people have overlooked church legislation on recorded music, hymn-playing machines such as Synthia, projection screens in church, etc. This legislation has never been supserseded or rescinded as far as I am aware, an...