Society of Saint Gregory

I want 'Thine be the Glory' and those that turn up (if any) can pick the other hymns themselves- it is a service in which they have to participate actively after all, my participation will be somewhat less animated (hopefully!) than usual! My other stipulations however would be: Must have some sembl...

A transient congregation cannot logically be used as a justification for consistency in Mass setting when by definition their very transience means they won't notice. Except that not all the members of the congregation are transient, so if those who aren't do know the setting inside out, then they ...

Go the Mass is ended has to be on the hate list!
God's Spirit is in my heart and walk in the light are up there too.

Big fan of David Haas "Jesus be with us now" and John Heneghan's Banquet Gloria (sadly unpublished),

Many of the congregation are visitors. Hence the use of plainchant Gloria and alleluia and the same English Mass setting every week. I still think there should be a different Mass setting for a season. In any parish with a congregation predominantly of visitors, the same Mass setting week after wee...

The new liturgy planner is really good. The woman in our parish who trains readers has asked if we can distribute the 'for the reader' bit for the relevant Sunday to our readers? Would this be OK?- I would get the parish to take out a subscription in addition to my personal one.

Marty Haugen's Mass of Creation is a good one, as is Bernadette Farrell's setting, both in Laudate. We use Liam Lawton's Mass of the Celtic Saints quite a bit. Its very bouncy and our congregation get on very well with it. In advent we used Walker's Mannafest Acclamations (in Music for the Mass 1, a...

Gwyn wrote:Et cum spiritu tuo Musicus.

I second that!!

What I think I heard Martin Baker say was 'composers of dubious qualification...' which I know includes me. Does it though? Only if your composition is theologically and or liturgically incorrect and fails to engage the congregation. and I would much rather have children go to Mass on Christmas mor...

Are you speaking from experience? Absolutely! Once had one gate crash a wedding I was playing at on the Wirral (so the wee beastie was surprisingly far south). The couple were piped out by a lone piper, but the haggis in question mistook the pipes for the mating cry of another haggis. Who can blame...

contrabordun wrote:

TimSharrock wrote:we really could do with some bagpipes

and you don't often see that

Trouble with bagpipes is that you run the risk of luring haggises (haggi?) into the church. Just one wild haggis running round causes chaos

VML wrote:We sang Gaudete at our carol service last Sunday.

We're singing it tomorrow night. Its a piece that really suits our choir, I have to say though that the Bob Hurd phrasing (Ubi Caritas CD) is much better than the Steeleye Span version!

How does one define "Composers of dubious quality"? Surely "Compositions of dubious quality" is closer to the mark as some of the best liturgical composers have written some real turkeys! Even this definition is one entirely of personal taste. Its a matter on knowing what will lead a given congregat...

Anyone better organised than me? Only marginally. A unexpected summons to Switzerland last week for work didn't help things. Have more or less everything sorted now for church, service sheet run off, trumpeter rehearsed, choir well drilled. The question from the children's Mass people "Can we just ...

our two-manual digital has finally given up the ghost. I don`t have a spare organ hanging about, but to hear of a digital dying is quite worrying, we have an Allen that is about 8 years old and is working great, but I`d hope it was with us for a very long time yet. I`m also suggesting another churc...

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