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by Southern Comfort
Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:04 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
Replies: 2
Views: 18351

Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP

Dom Sebastian Wolff, a monk of Buckfast Abbey and for many years the Abbey Organist, died peacefully yesterday morning at the age of 93 after a brief illness. Born in County Galway, Ireland, of German émigré parents, his father was organist of Loughrea Cathedral, so organ playing was in his blood. H...
by Southern Comfort
Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:58 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Michael Hodgetts RIP
Replies: 0
Views: 35180

Michael Hodgetts RIP

A post by Paul Inwood a quarter of an hour ago on the Society's Facebook page reads as follows: Have just heard that Michael Hodgetts died this afternoon December 12. He was a stalwart of the Church Music Association before it re-merged with the Society, and I believe at one time was one of the Soci...
by Southern Comfort
Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:56 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Choral Director/National Schools Singing Programme - Arundel & Brighton
Replies: 2
Views: 13622

Re: Choral Director/National Schools Singing Programme - Arundel & Brighton

This is an encouraging development. I just hope that it does not suck the musical promise out of the parishes and into the cathedral. Something that supports both is what is needed. My experience of similar enterprises in the north of England was that everything initially became focused on the cath...
by Southern Comfort
Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:16 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mother of Mercy, Day by Day
Replies: 2
Views: 10409

Re: Mother of Mercy, Day by Day

This hymn appears in, among other places, Westminster Hymnal , 1912 edition, where it can be seen that Hémy's harmonization of his tune Mater Misericordiae (1864) was originally very simple (others have tarted it up considerably subsequently). Mother of mercy WH 1912.pdf It can also be seen that the...
by Southern Comfort
Tue May 31, 2022 7:52 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
Replies: 4
Views: 22341

Re: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals

Yes, born in Scotland, but received into the Church at Farm Street in London, rejected for ordination by St Andrew's and Edinburgh but accepted by Southwark. Visitors to the Venerable English College in Rome are often intrigued to see his portrait in the Cardinals' Gallery as they have never heard o...
by Southern Comfort
Mon May 30, 2022 9:27 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
Replies: 4
Views: 22341

Re: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals

The most recent time when there were two English cardinals eligible to vote was the period 1959-1973, when, firstly, Cardinals Godfrey and Heard were both alive and eligible. In fact Godfrey was appointed cardinal just too late to elect John XXIII and died not long before Paul VI was elected, but Wi...
by Southern Comfort
Sat May 28, 2022 7:02 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Replies: 14
Views: 90598

Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Love your precision as always, SC, but does one say that a noun "declines" or "is declined"? Just askin' Q I think both are correct. The lengthy Wikipedia entry on declensions even includes this sentence: "Whereas nouns do not distinguish between the subjective (nominative)...
by Southern Comfort
Mon May 23, 2022 8:08 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Replies: 14
Views: 90598

Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

St Elizabeth in Latin is Santa Elisabetha (notice the 's' instead of the 'z'), which declines as usual. Alternative forms of the name such as Isabella (= Isabelle) can also be used. But there is no real Latin equivalent of Elizabeth when used as a Christian name , so it should remain undeclined. Wh...
by Southern Comfort
Sun May 22, 2022 1:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Replies: 14
Views: 90598

Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

St Elizabeth in Latin is Santa Elisabetha (notice the 's' instead of the 'z'), which declines as usual. Alternative forms of the name such as Isabella (= Isabelle) can also be used. But there is no real Latin equivalent of Elizabeth when used as a Christian name, so it should remain undeclined. When...
by Southern Comfort
Mon May 16, 2022 8:10 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Replies: 14
Views: 90598

Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Wonder why they've only published the chant in Latin! Because it doesn't exist in any other form. This is the chant, minus Solesmes rhythmic signs, that was sung at the end of every High Mass up to 1964, when Mass was still predominantly in Latin. It was never sung in the vernacular. It started lif...
by Southern Comfort
Thu May 12, 2022 8:07 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Changes at the top
Replies: 0
Views: 34468

Changes at the top

Dom Paul Gunter OSB, up to now Secretary of the Liturgy Office and well known to SSG members, has just been elected Abbot of Douai. Prayers for him as he transitions out of his parish and his national responsibilities to the task of shepherding his community.
by Southern Comfort
Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:54 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Cardiff & Menevia - Two Dioceses, one Bishop
Replies: 2
Views: 10179

Re: Cardiff & Menevia - Two Dioceses, one Bishop

Menevia was originally part of Cardiff, so the infant returns to its mother, in a sense. There have been rumours for a while now that Menevia was not financially viable. Perhaps not having to find its own episcopal expenses will help. The installation in Cardiff is announced for 20 June. Nothing has...
by Southern Comfort
Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:18 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Communion Songs
Replies: 16
Views: 70641

Re: Communion Songs

One of the sacrifices that organists are called upon to make to fulfil their ministerial role during the distribution of Communion is being unable to receive Communion themselves. It goes with the territory. Sometimes it arises from a lack of thoughtfulness on the part of the ministers, who overlook...
by Southern Comfort
Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:31 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Communion Songs
Replies: 16
Views: 70641

Re: Communion Songs

GIRM 86: While the Priest is receiving the Sacrament, the Communion Chant is begun, its purpose being to express the spiritual union of the communicants by means of the unity of their voices, to show gladness of heart, and to bring out more clearly the ‘communitarian’ character of the procession to ...
by Southern Comfort
Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Blessings!
Replies: 5
Views: 18871

Easter Blessings!

Hope the Triduum was a blessed time for you all, even if a multitude of things went wrong?were disorganized/chaotic.

You survived, and your communities certainly benefitted from your ministry!

Now relax, and enjoy Eastertide!