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- Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:09 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9422
Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
I am now a member of Sion Community and am locked in with 9 other community members in our house in Coventry. The community includes 3 guitarists,1 keyboard player and a cahon enthusiast! We have a 10-channel mixing desk connected to our streaming computer via a Komplete-1 Audio-to-USB interface. Th...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:17 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Bidding Prayers and You
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1876
Bidding Prayers and You
For as long as I’ve been involved with planning liturgies, pre- and post-ordination, I’ve had many weary conversations in schools and parishes about how not to write bidding prayers, explaining time and again that they are meant to be invitations to the people present to pray, not direct supplicatio...
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liturgical Tourism
- Replies: 220
- Views: 116723
Re: Liturgical Tourism
Last Saturday I was at the Catholic Cathedral in Armagh for their Vigil Mass. Their choir doesn't operate during July and August so the musical leadership consisted of the presiding priest and a pre-recorded track at communion. From memory, Mass unfolded like this: Entrance: one verse of a rather ma...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:04 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liturgical Tourism
- Replies: 220
- Views: 116723
Re: Liturgical Tourism
I am currently on holiday in Ireland. Yesterday (18th Sunday B) I climbed the mountain of Croagh Patrick, where there is a small oratory at the top. Mass hadn't been scheduled publicly (and I couldn't have predicted how long it would take me to haul my ample frame 764 m above sea level) but having m...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 12:37 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Mary, Mother of the Church
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6003
Re: Mary, Mother of the Church
Is anyone else marking the new feast of Mary, Mother of the Church on 21 May? We've been asked to host a Mass for our pastoral area. But I just can't get my head round the suggested psalm: 86 with the refrain "Of you are told glorious things, O city of God" – and I'm not sure how it follows on from...
- Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:11 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: 'Cursed' Cross
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3007
Re: 'Cursed' Cross
Christ became a curse for us, according to Galatians 3:13... and any gallows tree was intrinsically cursed. I think it's fair. All our curses were hung upon that Cross. So it's the most cursed Cross I could ever contemplate! But I've got no problem venerating a cursed Cross, since every time I recei...
- Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:11 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Best Narthex in Christendom
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5757
The Best Narthex in Christendom
On the grounds that a Narthex is a liturgical space, I hope this isn’t off-topic… We are looking to re-design our church's narthex. How do we minimise clutter, while allowing it to be a community space? Do you know any really good examples of churches that deal with all the “stuff” we are sent to gi...
- Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:31 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: How accessible is your church?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15776
Re: How accessible is your church?
The key concept with "reasonable adjustments" is what is reasonable. At seminary, we were taught that one of the relevant criteria is how the cost of making disabled adaptations compares to the funds available for maintenance and actually spent on maintenance. If a church has not enough mo...
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:43 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Order of Celebrating Matrimony
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2851
Order of Celebrating Matrimony
I've just received my new copy of the Order of Celebrating Matrimony . It doesn't include the Eucharistic Prayers so has to be used together with an altar missal - though it does have the embolisms for EP1, 2 and 3 so you can have the embolism alongside the Missal rather than an awkward page turn th...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:50 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Holy Year of Mercy - are we doing anything?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10668
Re: The Holy Year of Mercy - are we doing anything?
As Diocesan Director of Evangelisation, I am beginning to think about non-sacramental liturgies which could be celebrated in Holy Door churches in such a way that they would be meaningful to non-Catholics and those Catholics unready to avail of confession. If anyone has useful resources, please save...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:47 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Remembrance Prayers
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6457
Remembrance Prayers
Resource that might be useful for this Sunday or 11th November: Since 1968, a Service for Remembrance Sunday has been commended for general use by the Archbishops of Canterbury, of York, and of Wales, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, and the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council. This ...
- Sat Nov 07, 2015 11:45 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropriate p
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15801
Re: The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropria
I'm coming late to this discussion, but I note the national guidance ranks a hymn or music at this point as "priority 3" on a par with singing Kyrie Eleison, Agnus Dei or a recessional! http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Music/Singing.shtml
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 12:45 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Proclaim 15
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5352
Re: Proclaim 15
I am the Proclaim'15 co-ordinator for my diocese. Each co-ordinator was given the invidious task of selecting 35 individuals from their diocese to attend this limited-seats event in Birmingham. Since we are a small diocese, I wrote to all Parish Priests asking them to recommend delegates, as well as...
- Thu May 28, 2015 10:16 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: O clap your hands
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4023
Re: O clap your hands
No clapping, but when it said 'Sing a new song' I preached this: https://catholicpreacher.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/sing-a-new-song-to-the-lord/
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Sprinkling in different directions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2062
Sprinkling in different directions
Christ is Risen - and the big liturgies are done - Alleluia! Now is the time to recover, debrief and reflect. And I am reflecting on the differences in Sprinkling Rites: Easter Vigil: Water is blessed. Baptisms, if any, take place. Then the sequence is: * Call to prayer * Threefold renunciation of t...