Society of Saint Gregory

I often attend an Ordinariate Celebration of Holy Mass in Rogerstone, South-East Wales. Mass is celebrated with dignity and reverence. The music is typically Anglican - no bad thing. The Mass setting is poor, sounding like it's been cobbled together by a committee. A very capable organist plays regu...

iirc the Gradual is also an option.

Didn't Bugnini get himself slung out? Or was that a different Bugnini?

I see. Thank you.

Far more disturbing, a recent tweet about Readers (Lectors) links to a piece on the New Liturgical Movement website by Peter Kwasniewski which references a practice at St Thomas Aquinas College, California, where only vested altar servers are allowed to do the readings. Is the SSG thereby endorsing...

Thanks folks. Some lovely snippets there and some interesting observations.
Gwyn.

The hymn "O God of every shining constellation" has had a few airings on Songs of Praise of late. The Tune "Lucy" is a cracker.
What do we know of it? I've not seen it in any hymnals.
Gwyn.

The same setting was used when Midnight Mass was broadcast from Arundel Cathedral two to three years back.

By the way, did anyone else hear the Red Army choir singing 'It's a long way to Tipperary' on Radio 3 this morning?

Yes. It was delightful.

"I enjoyed that"

Just a thought; would en-joy-ment be the subjective experience of Joy, a fruit of the Spirit? In which case I guess that it's no bad thing to feel it.

That's fascinating JW. Thank you for a really informative post re. Wesley.

Hiromi's performance was simply stunning, it blew me away. What a gifted musician. What a skilled performer.

"§4. Within the limits of his competence, it belongs to the diocesan Bishop to lay down in the Church entrusted to his care, liturgical regulations which are binding on all."

Everybody run.

"Angel voices ever singing round Thy throne of light"; now there's a cracker of a hymn for the Prep of the Gifts.

What you've said is music to my ears Nazard. I agree wholeheartedly.

Active participation does not mean that every body must sing every thing.

Absolutely.