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by justMary
Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Tourism
Replies: 220
Views: 480006

Re: Liturgical Tourism

It was a large, transparent glass panel without any bezels. When there was something for the congregation to sing, the panel became opaque and the words were clearly legible. Thank you for this description - I've been wondering where technology will go next, and hadn't considered this type of idea....
by justMary
Sat May 20, 2017 9:04 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Pentecost sequence.
Replies: 37
Views: 31381

Re: Pentecost sequence.

I would be very interested in a any reasoning that brought together "mediocre choir" and "worthy of the liturgy" in the same sentence . How about "To provide music that is worthy of the liturgy, even a mediocre choir is better than no choir at all." Discuss. I'll say t...
by justMary
Sat May 20, 2017 6:46 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Maria Parkinson?
Replies: 8
Views: 10435

Re: Maria Parkinson?

Fascinating, thank you. I guess it's safe to say "English Roman Catholic lay woman" to describe her? I wonder which of them is receiving the royalties from Kevin Mayhew Ltd. Probably its genius is that it's not specific to any Marian feast, and so appropriate for all of them: It's very wid...
by justMary
Mon May 08, 2017 5:35 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Maria Parkinson?
Replies: 8
Views: 10435

Maria Parkinson?

A long shot but: Does anyone know any more about Maria Parkinson of "As I Kneel Before You" fame? She appears to have been a one-hit-wonder, and all that I can locate on-line is that the song was published by Kevin Mayhew, and she was born in 1956. However the song appears to have done rem...
by justMary
Wed May 03, 2017 1:03 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: International Hymn Choices
Replies: 7
Views: 6884

Re: International Hymn Choices

Faith of our Fathers sung to St Catherine doesn't cut the custard in the same way as the tune generally used in the UK. Ahh, but they're thinking of the Pilgrim fathers at the time. Same words but a totally cultural baggage and implied meaning. Many of the US people singing the hymn would be horrif...
by justMary
Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:30 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Offertory hymns
Replies: 34
Views: 45167

Re: Offertory hymns

Our list for when "nothing stands out from the Liturgy of the Word contents so let's play a generic offertory hymn" is even shorter than yours:

All that I am
Fill My House
In Bread We Bring You Lord
Take Our Bread
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
In Love for Me
by justMary
Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:34 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: God so loved the world
Replies: 9
Views: 8340

Re: God so loved the world

Its a lovely thing, I agree. Are there any settings of that text for congregational use, I wonder. http://www.hymnary.org/text/god_so_loved_the_world_god_so_loved_the has a few entries for it - all have a 4-part score but all words are unison. I'd hazard a guess that the tune from any of them would...
by justMary
Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:28 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: You can't please all the people all of the time
Replies: 30
Views: 20814

Re: You can't please all the people all of the time

My interpretation FWIW is that if one person is especially pleased, one dissatisfied and the rest sufficiently content not to say anything you must be doing OK. Indeed - or even well more than OK, moaners usually outweigh compliments. Personally I'm in a very happy place where I get very few compla...
by justMary
Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:03 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: You can't please all the people all of the time
Replies: 30
Views: 20814

Re: You can't please all the people all of the time

1 exceeds expectations
50 / 100 / 300 / whatever- meets expectations
1 - does not meet exepctations

... sounds like a pretty good average to me.
by justMary
Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:43 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgy Meetings
Replies: 5
Views: 5643

Re: Liturgy Meetings

Why To start with, fellowship with your brother and sister Christians is never a bad thing. After than, provided everything is going to stay the way it is forever, then of course there's no need for meetings: everyone can keep doing exactly what they do now, nothing will change, no one needs to lea...
by justMary
Thu Mar 23, 2017 6:36 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram
Replies: 24
Views: 18163

Re: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram

though the same style will not appeal to everyone And more importantly the same style will not evangelise / nourish / engage everyone. As I've got older and more musically aware, I've found spiritual riches in material which sounded like pretentious caterwauling in my younger years, and I've found ...
by justMary
Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:35 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram
Replies: 24
Views: 18163

Re: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram

Priests receiving formation likely do know what good music sounds like. But they are also learning that their job is to save souls, not to teach them taste - a fuller op-piece about this here: m Also, they need to know far more than what good music sounds like: they need to learn how to achieve it: ...
by justMary
Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:09 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Come to the Manger
Replies: 12
Views: 9079

Re: Come to the Manger

Hymns Old and New says it's by Gatty without mentioning Waddington, though it's the same harmony as in Laudate, which does acknowledge his arrangement, as does CFE.


Depends which edition you look at: HOAN Catholic 2009 does not mention Gatty, but does acknowledge Waddington as the arranger.
by justMary
Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:39 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Only 20 hymns
Replies: 55
Views: 38061

Re: Only 20 hymns

^Hail the day" is not exactly new or esoteric. Surely it was known in the parish at some time? How did it (and others) drop out of the repertoire? New-ish parish, formed approx 10 years ago. New part of the city, lots of young families, not so many older people, lots of immigrants. Some people...
by justMary
Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:22 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Only 20 hymns
Replies: 55
Views: 38061

Re: Only 20 hymns

No point dwelling on it - the idea of a 20 hymn repertoire is laughably ludicrous any way!! There are times I despair of this forum. While I'd like to be agreeing - I'm also aware that for some places it may be a reality. I'd hope that at least it's 20 hymns plus some settings of the Ordinary. But ...