Society of Saint Gregory

After a fruitless search of the forum I wonder if anyone remembers the hymn which began "Merciful Saviour, hear our humble prayer, For all thy servants passed beyond life's care . . . " (sung to the Old124th) and has any idea why it has dropped out of the repertoire? - is it perhaps "unsound" in cur...

I'm not sure we ever resolved this to evryone's satisfaction, but may I ask: - if there is to be Reception but not a Bapstism does that have any effect on what is said or sung (and I suppose I'm mainly talking about the Litany although there still remains the minor question of that little Antiphon "...

Robert is now conductor of the Sheffield Chamber Choir, the Sheffield Sterndale Singers, and Bel Canto Choir, Musical Director of Sheffield City Opera, and accompanist to the Sheffield University Singers’ Society. He teaches singing at Broomhill Infant School, and Phillimore Primary School, and is ...

mcb wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:12 pm

We've done this one!

So we have! - and worse than that, it was posted by me!
Mea culpa!
Q

Deity - Dee-ity? or Day-ity?
Q

Thanks for all the help folks - I've gleaned a couple of useful suggestions and fed them into the decision process. I'll post the final selection (whenever I'm told what it is!)

Q

Are there any hymns for Confirmation emerging as "classics" from the more contemporary end of the musical spectrum? Our horizons are usually limited to the contents of Laudate (original edition) which is rather thin on hymns to or about the Holy Spirit (and, curiously, although there is a section on...

- and was it not the norm (if not actually a "rule") that if a hymn which concluded with a doxology needed to be shortened for practical reasons the doxology was never omitted? (Groping in distant memories here!)

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Narthex? - Shmarthex! - I was a reasonably fluent member of the church for more than half a century before I suddenly found myself inundated by these pseudo intellectual pseudo Greek words - narthexes and praxises and most recently charisms (incidentally all rejected by my spell checker :D ) - and y...

Not much time for your help on this, I'm afraid, but there seems to be some confusion about the texts for this Sunday - Liturgy and Music appears to have the texts which my humble "pew-fodder" Missal has for year A (it's the CTS New Missal, published 2011). My year B ones are quite different - inclu...

JW wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:45 pm

'is there one law for the important people and another for the little people?'

Suprisd you only just noticed that, JW
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Our FHC Masses used to be depressing affairs . . . What an inspiring post, Becky - I've been "off watch" as far as the forum is concerned for some time for reasons some happy, some sad, but having just wrestled with something unrelated on the infernal machine I thought I'd have a minute to catch up...

justMary wrote:1 exceeds expectations
50 / 100 / 300 / whatever- meets expectations
1 - does not meet exepctations.

I'm struggling with the maths (or the meaning?) here, Mary - am I missing something?

Q

I used it one year to close an Advent carol service - sung with a strong ending resounding with optimism it was well received.

Q

(Note to self: Calm down, Q, don't be in such a rush!) - I've just noticed that SC was in fact quoting an article by Paul Inwood in M & L, so credit where it's due, and apologies all round. (I am rather looking forward to being taken to task and quoting this trenchant paragraph: But the real po...