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by justMary
Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:24 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
Replies: 6
Views: 36514

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 ...
by justMary
Tue Mar 28, 2023 1:15 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Translation of the Lectionary incoming
Replies: 34
Views: 154355

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...
by justMary
Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:21 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Sunday Obligation - it's returning
Replies: 4
Views: 21317

Re: The Sunday Obligation - it's returning

Has it made a difference anywhere?
by justMary
Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:09 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
Replies: 12
Views: 24668

Re: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"

Don't have arguments. Don't make a song and dance.
Just quietly continue to include / focus on Mass parts on your weeks. Change them only infrequently, so they become very well known.
Let people notice which ones are sung best.
by justMary
Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:12 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mission Opportunity
Replies: 7
Views: 14803

Re: Mission Opportunity

The number who cannot be vaccinated is indeed quite small. But the number who are not yet willing to be vaccinated, due to the lack of evidence of the long term effects of the vaccines, is larger than some would think. Scientists can say all they want about the volume of trials done. But we all know...
by justMary
Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
Replies: 31
Views: 36837

Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?

I was wondering if any catholic composers / musicians in the UK are doing any online events, either regularly or as a one-off? Do you know of any?
Jo Boyce is. https://www.facebook.com/joboycemusic
by justMary
Mon Apr 13, 2020 7:45 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
Replies: 31
Views: 36837

Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?

I attended Easter Sunday Mass via Zoom yesterday. A single-family group (ie one bubble) provided music, and I think also controlled the camera / meeting, positioned I'm guessing 20m away from the altar. It didn't go well: the reberb, delay and likely sound quality picked up from the camera (close to...
by justMary
Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Diocesan youth celebrations
Replies: 6
Views: 14197

Re: Diocesan youth celebrations

I'm not sure that a Picnic and Praise event is where I would expect to find traditional Catholic music!

There's a place for it, for sure, but it's something that most people grow into rather than experience from childhood.
by justMary
Sat Jun 08, 2019 9:51 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Organist contract
Replies: 6
Views: 14334

Re: Organist contract

An organist plays: 1) in the church's premises (using the church's light and heating) 2) on the church's instrument, 3) at the time of the church's choosing. 4) Officially, the music they play is chosen or at least approved by the church. The only tool which might be their own is the sheet music the...
by justMary
Sat May 18, 2019 11:28 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Westminster Cathedral choir
Replies: 4
Views: 15571

Re: Westminster Cathedral choir

Notwithstanding the boarding issue (what kind of parent would even think it's appropriate ... the mind boggles) - surely a cathedral-anything should be drawing from it's diocese, not the whole country? Roman Catholicism is not a nation-based church.
by justMary
Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:45 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: One License takes over from Calamus
Replies: 29
Views: 89423

Re: One License takes over from Calamus

Nick - did you receive an announcement from Decani about this? I looked on their website, but couldn't find anything about it. I think that it is A Good Thing in the long run, although agree there is likely pain in the short term re getting catalogs loaded etc. Works by UK&I composers are used i...
by justMary
Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Pronunciation
Replies: 14
Views: 20714

Re: Pronunciation

So is the town through which Jesus and his disciples travelled to leave Jerusalem (in Luke 24:13-35) pronounced Eee-may-uus so that it scans properly in Marty Haugen's "On the Journey to ... " hymn? Or is E-moss, as my current parish priest pronounces it? And who would tell the wrong one t...
by justMary
Sun Jan 06, 2019 10:26 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Funerals and autocrats
Replies: 18
Views: 20816

Re: Funerals and autocrats

I played for one this morning (a Mass) when a friend/relative of the deceased played the coffin in on a tin whistle (O Danny Boy)
I am sure that they were actually playing John Bell's "Go Silent Friend" or perhaps Fullerton's "I Cannot Tell".



:)
by justMary
Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:30 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Services of Word and Communion in the absence of a priest.
Replies: 26
Views: 23884

Re: Services of Word and Communion in the absence of a priest.

In Ireland at the current time, there are many people who simply will not pray together unless they are going to get Eucharist: they give no value at all to the benefits of community or community prayer - all they want is My Little Eucharist. On the other hand, I've have recently heart that at some ...
by justMary
Sat Sep 08, 2018 6:18 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music for Papal Mass in Phoenix Park, Dublin
Replies: 15
Views: 20023

Re: Music for Papal Mass in Phoenix Park, Dublin

I find I dont have the stomach to tune in to anything that features clerics at the moment. So I avoided. As did the majority of people in Ireland! It may be the norm for published Masses to include all the Mass parts, but in average parishes it is certainly not the norm to use a matching set at the...