Society of Saint Gregory

I pointed out to the parish office the item in The Tablet about buying the new lectionaries from India at a fraction of the cost of the UK books but was told the clergy had decided to order them and the appeal for money for them was successful. I can't help feeling this is a huge waste of money in a...

Sang at an Anglican ordination. When you see in the booklet "performed by" you know applause is almost expected. The group were good but they had mikes and so the psalm got applauded. They were also prominent and near the HIgh altar. They sang 3 items at communion (no applause) and that wa...

The Ancient and Modern has some anomalies in his design. First hymn "Here I am Lord". I must have played this hundreds of times. For some odd reason the chorus is over the page and I had both books open at the chorus. It took me a verse to realise that people were not singing what I was pl...

I was on the bus and who do I meet but the Cardinal! LIke me he was going to the hospital. As we walked along I told him about the funerals I had attended and how Bishop Christopher had transformed the funeral by starting "The Lord is risen indeed!" to which we all replied "He is rise...

Lovely man and he gave me some of his organ music. RiP

We have found our new parish. I offered to play for induction Mass. Christmas organ unusable because of leaks. Cantor did well and we joined in. I still think Missa de Angelis recording for a children's mass is crazy and in the end we only sang Gloria. The pp started by asking me to play at offertor...

One of the Masses we went to locally really was musical torture. At the start a recording of an organ playing This is the day - no singing. At communion a recording of an organ playing the same tune over and over again - it felt like 50 times! I would rather have silence if we are not going to sing!...

In a discussion forum a father mentioned "clericalism" from a parish choir member who resisted his daughter taking any part in the Vigil - she was back in the parish from university. I do think this can be a problem if we are not open to others coming in to help out. His daughter did sing ...

I volunteered to play for the feast day at a local church which we have been attending :D The occasion was also the induction of the new parish priest who worked very hard to prepare for the day. The big surprise was that he had not looked at the Missal to see the set readings for the day. He chose ...

At a wedding years ago the bride insisted on a recording of the Wedding March! The violinist of the string quartet said she had insulted me as it was perfectly obvious that I was very capable of playing the march. Keep music live! Go down the recorded route and eventually we will all be redundant!

I think a bigger worry is young priests coming out of seminaries wanting to take us backwards. They are not keen on interfaith and ecumenism. They seem to think they are right and everybody else is wrong! Very worrying!! In one case I heard the first Mass was OP - nobody knew that would happen. How ...

We are looking forward to summer school for the first time for some years! We are both anxious about public transport in London and go by car if we have to go anywhere! Ironically the service at Westminster cathedral for the climate falls in the middle of summer school and it is ecumenical and only ...

You are right to be unimpressed! Facebook is full of stories of organists resigning because of lack of any consulatation! So sad!

5 hymns on Sunday Alleluia! Greening Gloria and Shrine Mass 11. What joy!!!

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The Season runs from Sept 1 to Oct 4 and your parish priest should be reminded about it please!