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by Southern Comfort
Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: A little list
Replies: 7
Views: 3142

Re: A little list

JW wrote:These folk seem to have an awful lot of influence - are there really that many of them?


No, they are a tiny but very vocal minority. And they like to think they have a lot of influence, but in point of fact they have almost none.
by Southern Comfort
Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:40 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Conversion of Saint Paul - Latin motet needed
Replies: 15
Views: 7704

Re: Conversion of Saint Paul - Latin motet needed

Thank you for this, Musicus . I had thought it was sufficient to have the correct time set in the control panel (which of course it already was). Now I see, for the first time, that logging in actually changes the time by an hour. How bizarre! I don't know of any other bulletin board that functions ...
by Southern Comfort
Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:17 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Conversion of Saint Paul - Latin motet needed
Replies: 15
Views: 7704

Re: Conversion of Saint Paul - Latin motet needed

Strange how the last two posts are appearing in this window at the correct time - i.e. today - whereas on the forum itself they are appearing an hour ahead - i.e. tomorrow. And yes, I did just go to the control panel to check the display was GMT (and it was) and I confirmed it just to be sure. No ch...
by Southern Comfort
Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:17 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Health and Safety
Replies: 20
Views: 13182

Re: Health and Safety

Alas Stephen Bicknell died in August 2007 at the tragically early age of 50. His website is therefore defunct (just to explain why the link above no longer works in case anyone wonders).
by Southern Comfort
Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:40 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Replies: 3
Views: 2409

Re: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Try this:

"Praise to you, Lord Jesus, Word__ of__ God;
praise to you, O Lord Most High."

[The Alleluias are part of the original Greek text.]
by Southern Comfort
Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:29 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

PS: I notice you didn't say why we now have "CONtributed" and "DIStributed" - cumbersome, initial-stressed polysyllables, eh?
by Southern Comfort
Sat Dec 27, 2008 10:51 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

Well, where would we be without a bit of passion?! ...at any age. :wink:
by Southern Comfort
Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:00 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

More seriously, does what was an error become correct by the simple force of frequent usage? Does this mean I have to abandon my crusade against "CONtribute" and "DIStribute" instead of "conTRIBute and "disTRIBute" just because they are so prevalent on the BBC and...
by Southern Comfort
Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:15 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Teaching the teachers
Replies: 46
Views: 16300

Re: Teaching the teachers

Words like reverence, sin, obligation, bound to, morality, modesty, even grace, are pretty rare in the modern RE vocabulary. I know many totally committed Catholic teachers, but I know as many nominal Catholics teaching in Catholic schools whose contact with the Church is minimal. I beg to differ. ...
by Southern Comfort
Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:09 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

mcb wrote:There's a well-informed discussion of deity here.


Very interesting: so deity has now changed as a result of spontaneity, etc.

And now, back to Wolcum Yule......
by Southern Comfort
Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:40 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Christmas sequences
Replies: 2
Views: 2236

Re: Christmas sequences

The Laetabundus is a beautiful piece of chant, used in some recent German organ music as a cantus firmus. I wonder if they use it over there, Trent or no Trent.
by Southern Comfort
Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:17 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

Sorry to prolong this agony, Don't be sorry - it's good fun! what about the A in "O and A and A and O" in the last verse of 'Unto Us is Born a Son'. Is it 'Ay' or 'Ah'? Possibly it depends whether you say Aymen or Ahmen at the end of a prayer - is there anything laid down on this? I've ne...
by Southern Comfort
Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:11 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

There is a slight difference there in that "deity" is an English word (albeit derived from Latin) and given only the pronunciation dee-ity in Chambers (and in the rather small school-level Oxford which is all I have to hand), - so "day-ity" is simply wrong I'm afraid this is dow...
by Southern Comfort
Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:31 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

As for Ee-o or Aye-o, I know that there is an explanation of the derivation of the expression, but I don't recall what it is - I'm sure someone on this forum will know it. For the pronunciation I would refer to the "Adeste Fideles" - "Cantet nunc "Io" chorus angelorum"...
by Southern Comfort
Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:00 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help
Replies: 32
Views: 18388

Re: Ding Dong Merrily on high - need pronunciation help

dunstan wrote:Ex-chelsis, Eck-shelsis or Egg-shelsis?

And in verse 2, Eye-Oh or Eee-Oh?


Eck-shel-seess or Egg-shel-seess - either will do. The first is better, the second easier for choir people to remember.

Eee-Oh! (Way to remember - think of American Yee-Haw! which means the same thing, in fact.)