Society of Saint Gregory

May I suggest that we are now rehashing what has already been said recently in this thread? viewtopic.php?f=7&t=162&start=15

However, I suspect that many Catholics think of, for example, "The Tune When I survey the wondrous cross " whereas in other denominations people would think of "the tune Rockingham " Talking of which, I have several times used this tune on Good Friday during the veneration of th...

Well, James Quinn started it off back in the 1970s with New Hymns for All Seasons, nearly all of which were his new texts to existing tunes; and people have been doing it ever since. I don't see it as a peculiarly RC thing to retain one text for one tune - not any more.

It's called a responsorial psalm not only because it's got a response, but also because it is a response. This insight first developed in the 1970s and I believe its origins are to be found in a workshop that Paul Inwood and Bishop David Konstant did at what was then the Westminster Cathedral Confer...

There was a young monk from Sophia
who had an unholy desire;
and the primary cause
was the abbess's drawers
hung up in front of the fire.

Don't forget that GIRM says (para 61) The psamist, or the cantor of the Psalm, sings the Psalm from the ambo or another suitable place [my emphasis]. I thought we had had this discussion before: when is it appropriate for the cantor not to sing from the ambo? One answer can be 'when the ambo is on t...

But I do take Southern Comfort's point about the Eucharistic Prayer, although I would argue that the "Invocation of The Holy Spirit" early in the prayer is of enormous significance................ You're in good company. The Orthodox like us believe that the whole prayer is consecratory, ...

There are two versions that use the melody from Pieds-en-l'air from Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite . One is (I think) in the Mayhew collection for evening prayer mentioned above by Adrian, the other (text by Martin Foster) is in Cantate . Not sure whether two arrangers had the same idea independentl...

Just goes to show how out of touch with reality the Congregation actually is. But then we knew that already.

All I meant was, we have a recurrent theme in this forum that any song mentioning the word 'Bread' should not be used at Communion, on the grounds that the consecration has now taken place. Er, so why can we sing "When we eat this bread and drink this cup........." after the consecration....

Actually para 86 talks about communion chants, rather than hymns. No, it specifically goes on to mention a hymn after Communion, and it was the postcommunion I was asking about. OK. It may seem like splitting hairs, but a hymn after Communion is not a Communion hymn, which is what I thought you wer...

a song from another collection of psalms and antiphons, the text of which has been approved by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales Is there such a collection, or do we just assume it means 'hymn book, and if so, do all hymn books count'? And does "a song" mean any song, or should...

I believe Worth pray in English, mostly using Dom Philip Gaisford's own melodies. Whether or not these are available more widely I couldn't say. Yes, that is so, and Worth have now produced an assembly book and an accompaniment volume of Dom Philip's recent work. I haven't tried this for music, but...

As far as I am aware, a gospel reading may be read by a lay person when it is not in the context of a mass (when only the presiding priest may proclaim it) Not quite. Every week, in parishes all over the world, the Gospel is proclaimed by someone other than a priest or deacon - in a Liturgy of the ...

But DS has changed the rhythm - the "O" is on the upbeat and "Lord" is a dotted minim. It'll never catch on! Agree with this absolutely. And did anyone notice that in "Sing a new song" he's changed "Yahweh's people shout for joy" to "Shout with gladness,...