Society of Saint Gregory

As there was a lot of hymns during midnight mass I made up a small A5 sheet order of service for my choir. Next to the Psalm I made slight typo putting 'All sin after each verse'

This has turned into an interesting debate, more than I thought it would. The posts about how communion hymns work in different parishes is interesting and most of you seem to have the use of a music group every weekend, which is a big help. There is one trick I used to use when it was just me and t...

Thanks for the input so far, very interesting thoughts. Basically my choir sing every other weekend so with reference to the communion hymn I usually play a short piece then start the hymn after about half or so have been to communion. For some reason no one wants to join, it's as though they are af...

I wonder what the groups feeling are on the following 2 issues:- 1) Communion Hymn - There are normally around 220 people that attend Sunday mass at the church where I am the organist and they do adequately well at singing. However, when it's the turn of the communion hymn everyone seems to go into ...

My absolute favourite wedding story is of the bride who requested the song from "Robin Hood" meaning the Bryan Adams "Everything I do....." What she got was the theme tune from the ancient TV series "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen." I'm not sure if its...

Thank you. I have been along time viewer of these forums and thought it was about time I actually joined and got involved with this community.

With my choir I usually look at using the Celtic Alleluia with verse, where it fits. If this is not suitable then I use a standard Alleluia taken from the popular Easter Night psalm and for the verses the psalm tones composed by Dom. Gregory Murray in the key of G. The change usually goes along the ...