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- Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:47 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: A touching place
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11932
A touching place
In the Incarnation, God did not just touch the human race - in Jesus his Son he immersed himself in it in all its messiness, even unto Jesus' death. Therefore Christianity is not a religion in which we seek some kind of nirvana or escape from the human condition. On the contrary, we seek to follow C...
- Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:01 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: O faithful catholic, is this you?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13337
I seem to remember that Faith of our Fathers either appeared in a non-catholic hymn book... Yes, indeed. It appears in the 1933 Methodist Hymn Book. Verses 1, 2 and 4, also the refrain, are unaltered, but verse 3 appears as: Faith of our fathers! God's great power Shall soon all nations win for the...
- Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:17 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: O faithful catholic, is this you?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13337
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:39 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Music for our newcomers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5383
Liturgy and music in Kerala
I think it's worth pointing out that the liturgy native to Kerala is not the Roman rite but the Syro-Malabar rite: see http://www.catholicherald.org/archives/articles/syromalabar.html . I know nothing about the music for this liturgy, except that the priest's part is at least partly chanted, maybe e...
- Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:45 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Singing at High Mass
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11554
Further info for the curious and/or fascinated: Yes, the usage whereby the Sanctus and Benedictus were split whenever they were sung - in chant or in polyphony - lasted at least until the Congregation of Rites' Instruction De Musica Sacra dated 3 September 1958, where we find under art. 27: d) If th...
- Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:42 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: A slant on the gathering rite
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3120
I sympathise with the need for some kind of transition between socialising and the Entrance Hymn, to enable some reflection on why one's come to church. This is particularly necessary before an occasion like First Communion or Confirmation, when socialising can be quite noisy. Before one Confirmatio...
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:58 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: seeking a genre
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15014
Is it fair to say that the best of both school translate from organ to ensemble and vice versa? Allowing possibly for a more Reginald Dixon approach to the organ in some cases? Please explain. To which Reginald Dixon do you refer: Reginald Dixon MBE, the Blackpool Tower organist, or J. H. Reginald ...
- Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:29 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Good Friday
- Replies: 77
- Views: 33159
Thank you, presbyter. To answer your last question: yes, in my parish we have verses of 'O sacred head' (Knox version) interspersing the Passion - have done so for many years. I believe it is beneficial because: (1) It breaks up a long reading, being read to many who are not regular churchgoers, wit...
- Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:34 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Good Friday
- Replies: 77
- Views: 33159
1) Background a) I agree that Latin does not have a distinctive word for 'crucifix'. Crucifixus means 'the crucified', i.e. the image on the cross. So Crux is image-neutral and can mean a cross with or without an image. However, I cannot think that the rubric writers ever imagined that Crux (capita...
- Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:23 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Good Friday
- Replies: 77
- Views: 33159
- Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:01 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Good Friday
- Replies: 77
- Views: 33159
The link to which docmattc refers is to a report in the American 'National Catholic Reporter', which states 'The reproaches set events in the Hebrew Bible alongside charges of responsibility for Christ's suffering and death. Though phrased as statements by Jesus, they do not appear in scripture.' Th...
- Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:36 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: A question of image
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13862
The question of the image of the Society of Saint Gregory has been frequently and recently discussed yet again by the trustees. It is extraordinary that, over 40 years since the Society nailed its Vatican 2 colours to its mast, it is still considered to be exclusively devoted to plainsong preservati...
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:54 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23474
I find it a little surprising that no distinction is made in Summorum Pontificum between the Solemn/Sung Mass and Low Mass forms of the 1962 rite (or 'usage'). Most people who remember them in regular use will more readily recall the Low Mass, because that was more common. It should be noted that th...
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:20 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23474
- Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Change in the parishes?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10467
Re: Change in the parishes?
The SSG is the national society for liturgy and music in the Catholic Church in the British Isles. Founded in 1929, it exists: • to further the study and understanding of the liturgy by the people of the Roman Catholic Church... As current chairman of the Society, I have just noticed the need for...