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by John Ainslie
Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Rome issues Triduum instructions
Replies: 7
Views: 7402

Re: Rome issues Triduum instructions

It is a shame that the period from the 4th Sunday of Lent through to Pentecost and all the liturgies that come with it couldn't be moved to later in the year, in place of the Sundays of Ordinary Time. You can't pretend that you are somewhere different in the calendar. It's the same case as if you w...
by John Ainslie
Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:33 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
Replies: 31
Views: 36793

Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?

Now that places of worship are to be closed for at least three weeks, there will be no music, alas, unless clergy wish to do unaccompanied singing... :( Churches are business premises, not homes. Though closed to the general public, are priests instructed not to go into them? I think not. Invited c...
by John Ainslie
Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:21 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
Replies: 31
Views: 36793

Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?

I've just watched - and done my best to take part in from afar - a live-streamed Sunday Mass (actually from churchservices.tv/newsouthgate). All done very nicely with just one reader and two concelebrating priests. But all SAID. What could be the role of music in live-streamed liturgy? This is an ur...
by John Ainslie
Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:55 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Involving visitors - music of First Holy Communion
Replies: 19
Views: 35449

Re: Involving visitors - music of First Holy Communion

For decades my parish has celebrated First Communions fully integrated into the Sunday morning Masses. Over two of the morning Masses over four weeks in Eastertide, from 6 to maximum 10 children make their first Communion (we have about 60 first communicants a year). They will have been expected to ...
by John Ainslie
Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:00 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Installation of new Archbishop of Southwark
Replies: 7
Views: 19897

Installation of new Archbishop of Southwark

I received the attached open invitation as an NNPM contact. Any SSG members or others interested in taking part?
by John Ainslie
Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:58 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The wickedness of face cream
Replies: 150
Views: 371754

Re: The wickedness of face cream

Nearly typed on an Order of Service booklet:

HOMILY - please be sedated.
by John Ainslie
Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:09 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hymn for deceased parishioners
Replies: 3
Views: 6440

Hymn for deceased parishioners

Some years ago, my then ex-Anglican parish priest brought to my attention a hymn in honour of deceased parishioners. We sang it each November for a number of years. It is from the New English Hymnal (208): I have changed the beginning to read 'In our day of remembrance' instead of 'In our day of tha...
by John Ainslie
Sat Feb 04, 2017 3:02 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mass translation may be revised?
Replies: 36
Views: 28010

Mass translation may be revised?

The Tablet this weekend announces that Pope Francis has ordered a review of the guideleines on liturgical translations from Latin. Archbishop Arthur Roche will head a body of bishops 'from across the world'. It will look at the current rules (i.e. Liturgiam Authenticam) and also examine how much of...
by John Ainslie
Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:38 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The wickedness of face cream
Replies: 150
Views: 371754

Re: The wickedness of face cream

Spotted on amazon.co.uk: a learned book by Enrico Mazza - "The Theology of Liturgy in the Parasitic Age". Image

And when would that be? A special indulgence for the best answer.
by John Ainslie
Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:35 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Here is a cantor!
Replies: 8
Views: 6971

Here is a cantor!

During a service with Pope Francis at the Ground Zero Memorial in New York City, Cantor Azi Schwartz delivered a haunting rendition of the Jewish prayer to the fallen.

Here it is: https://youtu.be/EQ6QItyQnGY
by John Ainslie
Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:30 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Journal
Replies: 2
Views: 3627

Re: Journal

The next issue is due to be mailed this week.

'Pax omnibus de liminibus' is what I think you were looking for, PhPh, but there are too many busses there for it to be elegant Latin.
by John Ainslie
Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:39 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropriate p
Replies: 31
Views: 22343

Re: The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropria

Does it make a difference if we name it Offertory Procession? Shuffle of feet and clink of pennies. Movement. What about dance? Some four or more years ago there was a public meeting in Westminster Cathedral (on the 1st of April, if I remember correctly!) at which Cardinal Arinze, the Nigerian then...
by John Ainslie
Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:20 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropriate p
Replies: 31
Views: 22343

Re: The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropria

"The Preparation of the Gifts is not usually an appropriate place for a hymn." Explain! Would someone please identify the said 'Centre of Excellence' and also quote the entire paragraph or whatever in which this statement occurs? Now I grant you that an unthinking "we must have a hym...
by John Ainslie
Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:54 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Tourism
Replies: 220
Views: 477844

Re: Liturgical Tourism

I feel strongly that, where a Sunday Mass is normally sung, some singing should be provided every Sunday. Music leadership is a ministry to the community, helping them to praise God. Does God take August off? I think not. In my 29 years as music leader in my parish, I made it a point of honour and f...
by John Ainslie
Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Tourism
Replies: 220
Views: 477844

Re: Liturgical Tourism

On Sunday 6th September I was in Boppard-am-Rhein, ten miles south of Koblenz. Big German-Romanesque church, officially a minor basilica. Excellent professional organist who could really lead the congregation as well as play - on the previous day he had entertained a respectable midday crowd to a co...