Society of Saint Gregory

And so the running order pre Vigil Mass is - Once in Royal David's City, Little Donkey (apparently included because it is accessible to children and I do quote), Away in a Manger, Silent Night, We Three Kings and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. (With brief readings and costumes)... There was a series ...

According to my local Ordo, the school had it right, as it gives 9th December as the date of the "Solemnity (Office Proper) (transferred)" of the Immaculate Conception. That suggests Priest 2 was wrong and even Priest 1 was on rather dubious ground. A similar case occurred earlier this yea...

Thanks, JW, that is how I had inferred it from your description. I just feel that "rid me" are important words and so need longer notes than "of this" and that putting them on crotchet C#s and the less important words on quaver As achieves this; it also matches the notes if not t...

Oops, your posts made me think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln01p1M2cH0 , which someone from my parish forwarded to me the other day in a chain of e-mails that included comments like " This is wonderful, please take time to listen to this song. It is so sad that even some of our local...

JW wrote:If singing to 'Rockingham' in D, it works best if you change the 1st minim in bar 10 to 2 quavers for "rid me", then use a crotchet dropping to the note A for "of", ...

Wouldn't it be better to use two crotchet C#s on "rid me" and two quaver As on "of this"?

Many thanks, JW. I'd forgotten about your hymn and the fact that I'd even contributed to the thread mentioning it! I'll see if my PP can fit the third verse to the tune: even though dropping the "turbulent" will make the line scan perfectly well you clearly don't want me to do that!

In my neck of the woods the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury takes precedence over that of the Holy Family this year, so I need to find some appropriate hymns for Mass. I've come across this one but don't know its author or copyright status. Can anyone help, please? I've quoted only a few snippets o...

The plan going forwards is: * To continue to select hymns which are a balance of modern and traditional, or right down the middle, as far as possible. * To alternate between the Latin and English ordinary reasonably evenly - a few weeks at a time on each. I reckon this one will have to be judged as...

The questions of getting the assembly to become more familiar with chant is indeed an issue and in my parish we are only taking baby steps. That is why I would welcome support from the SSG in helping to promote and teach chant, as it did in 1933. I always thought I was born in the wrong decade - I ...

Many years ago I fitted the words of this Psalm to a polonaise for chorus and orchestra by Glinka for a concert in Portsmouth. As the original title of the piece was "Great is our God" it was not as inappropriate as it may sound. If you're using it as the Responsorial Psalm it would unfort...

Parsifal includes some fine liturgies of the Holy Grail, though nothing we could use at Mass - no connection with the Grail Psalm translations we use.

Has this instruction come from the PP? Yes it has. That's what I feared, Helen, in which case (sadly) you're probably on a hiding to nothing. Unfortunately, ...Sung texts need not speak of bread and wine, nor of offering. Texts expressing joy, praise, community as well as the spirit of the season ,...

We will be singing 'As I kneel before you' after the communion antiphon, I think next week. A few years ago I played in the music group at a Confirmation Mass and was appalled to see this as one of the postcommunion hymns (it was in November, so not even the Maytime excuse could be called up). When...

No offence taken at all, Nick! However, we're in danger of drifting off-topic again, so I've posted a reply at http://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1414&p=23652#p23652 . Maybe we should discuss here whether the Israeli Mass, or the ban on items like it, is having any influence on...

On another thread, ...except that since the new Missal came in they no longer use the "Israeli Mass" .... Have heard quite a few similar comments in the last couple of years suggesting that the new translation banned such items. In fact, they were outlawed around 1985 – although they had n...