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by VML
Wed Mar 28, 2018 3:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: 'Cursed' Cross
Replies: 3
Views: 5468

'Cursed' Cross

Please can someone enlighten me as to the acceptability of 'cursed tree' as applied to the cross in a Hillsong 'song' we are asked to learn for Easter Sunday Mass. On Good Friday we adore the Holy Cross, and venerate it. Is 'cursed' reasonable?
by VML
Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:19 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Come Back Again
Replies: 9
Views: 8843

Re: Come Back Again

Seems similar to 'Come back to me With all your heart.'
by VML
Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Unity with Liturgical Diversity
Replies: 130
Views: 59820

Re: Unity with Liturgical Diversity

Thanks Gwyn, useful to know.
by VML
Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:37 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Unity with Liturgical Diversity
Replies: 130
Views: 59820

Re: Unity with Liturgical Diversity

Apologies for opening an old thread, but I wonder what has been the people's experience in parishes that have been handed over to the Ordinariate. I have close friends who have been rather distressed at radical change in style, liturgy, attitude, and practice. They feel that the Ordinariate has not ...
by VML
Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:39 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Sunday morning Masses
Replies: 17
Views: 17410

Re: Easter Sunday morning Masses

We will have our shortest ever Vigil this year, and still at 8.00. And sunset is 7.44.... New PP will sing short form Exsultet, with responses, 'This is the night of joy... etc.' It will be good to have the priest singing it, after 30 years of cantors. (Does anywhere have a female voice for the Exsu...
by VML
Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Responsorial Psalm
Replies: 21
Views: 24771

Re: Responsorial Psalm

Yes, the McCrimmon Complete Responsorial Psalter has been our main psalm resource since it was in three books. We still sometimes use the separate books for missing settings that were not carried over, and I am not over impressed with the cobbled inclusive language in the later edition. That's just ...
by VML
Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Communications - what the heck is going on?
Replies: 27
Views: 25963

Re: SSG Communications - what the heck is going on?

Hello oops, and thank you for responding. I just wonder how many still can't get in.
by VML
Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:04 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Communications - what the heck is going on?
Replies: 27
Views: 25963

Re: SSG Communications - what the heck is going on?

To answer SC's question, I wonder if other users and people who usually comment here are having the same problem as I have had for the last three months. I have not been able to log in, and I have noticed that each time I have looked at the forum, the legend that says how many are online notes numbe...
by VML
Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:16 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Muzak for the Mass
Replies: 7
Views: 7088

Re: Muzak for the Mass

I know what you mean about identifying muzak, and the distraction! Re the Pachelbel, it was the in and out cd for a funeral I did three weeks ago. First since new PP arrived, but another priest was doing it. Quite a search for the cd player, so I said I'd play it. Player found, and used for entrance...
by VML
Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:49 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Monastic Musicians Romsey Abbey plans
Replies: 1
Views: 2845

Re: Monastic Musicians Romsey Abbey plans

That all sounds wonderful.
by VML
Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:47 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Muzak for the Mass
Replies: 7
Views: 7088

Re: Muzak for the Mass

Too true oops! So far, thank God, we have not had recorded music for Sunday Mass, but a 'suitable' CD (not so suitable when it breaks into Glorias and Alleluias during Passiontide,) is played during confessions at the Lent and Advent reconciliation services; we used to have the choir singing Taize c...
by VML
Thu Oct 12, 2017 6:22 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Autumn Assembly - 13/14 October 2017
Replies: 2
Views: 3838

Re: SSG Autumn Assembly - 13/14 October 2017

Thank you Mary. One day maybe....
The Facebook info too puts a lovely face to the name and voice of the Rev Lucy.

It will be a lovely day.
by VML
Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:38 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I enjoyed that!
Replies: 15
Views: 13403

Re: I enjoyed that!

Quite, a play through is so important with new tunes. And so is an intro that identifies even well known hymns. Somehow I don't know how to tell the 12 string guitarist who leads alternate weeks here that a couple of strummed chords gives no indication, especially as we are not using hymn books, and...
by VML
Sun Sep 17, 2017 7:02 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I enjoyed that!
Replies: 15
Views: 13403

Re: I enjoyed that!

Very true, Gwyn.
by VML
Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:45 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Gloria settings
Replies: 13
Views: 28304

Re: Gloria settings

Our parish likes Nick Baty's Eldonian Gloria, and we use St Paul the Apostle Mass, by Chris Walker, and for simplicity, Belmont. Mike Stanley's Mass of St Bernadette is another, but it starts on top D which is not always helpful.