Society of Saint Gregory

I would just like to thank everyone for their contributions to this post - I didn't realise what I was setting off. Some of the finer points are wasted on me - but it has really helped me think more clearly about my own views. Thanks a lot.

Having started this - I agree that it is getting interesting - and is just posing more questions in my mind. those instruments which are, by common opinion and use, suitable for secular music only, are to be altogether prohibited from every liturgical celebration and from popular devotions What does...

Thanks for the comments so far - I take the point about Bob Hurd being more 'Gospel' than jazz - but then (to my limited way of musical thinking) aren't the two styles related??

But... what about some theological justification one way or another??

Well........ songs from Cabaret was not really what I had in mind! It would probably more likely be spirituals or things like Bob Hurd's 'Abide in Me' or 'The Good Shepherd' - which are undoubtedly jazz in their styling and yet very biblical.

What does anyone else feel about doing music in a jazz style in church?? Something I've recently read said "Jazz, for example, cannot today be part of a musical repertoire designed for worship". This person was talking particularly in respect of Catholic services and the quote was his take...

Hi. I hope nobody minds if I use the forum to advertise a music event being organized by the Leeds CAFOD office in support of the 'Live Simply' campaign that is currently running. Philip Jakob, a member of the Iona Community, Music adviser to the Hallam Diocese and Master of Music at St Marie's Cath...

Do you know , I didn't even make the Spice Girls connection

Anyway, thanks for the welcome and the suggestions - I shall be looking them up in due course.
The service is not until July - So there's time yet for a few more ideas!

Hi. I've been asked to provide the catholic bit of an ecumenical service in July. I did the same last year, and sang a Gelineau based psalm setting that seemed to go down all right. So, I've been asked to find a psalm setting for this year's service. The complication is that it is in the middle of J...