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by nazard
Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:24 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: School Masses
Replies: 5
Views: 3080

The only school masses I attend these days are at Downside, where the standards of music are laudably high. I have a horrible suspicion that attendance is compulsory, but in spite of that the children seem a good deal happier than they are at local parish masses. Is there a recent Downside alumnus o...
by nazard
Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:20 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Mass Translation
Replies: 27
Views: 14588

New Mass Translation

Someone has posted yet another draft translation of the mass into English at http://valleadurni.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-translation.html I am relatively pleased at first glance, but I am dismayed that in the the Gloria, "pax hominibus etc" has been translated as "Glory to God in the ...
by nazard
Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:09 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Et cum spiritu tuo
Replies: 5
Views: 4311

There is a bit of information at

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05114a.htm

but it is not really definitive. Does anyone know any more?
by nazard
Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:55 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Theology of Music
Replies: 32
Views: 18673

Well said, Ian. I get four problems in the liturgy committee. (1) Only people with strong agendas come. My own strong agenda is to follow what the popes say, and Benedict hasn't substantially changed the position on music, nor would I have expected him to. (2) Some people object to Latin on the basi...
by nazard
Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:59 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Sacramentum Caritatis
Replies: 22
Views: 12507

Quaerutor, You are a bit pessimistic. Latin was still being taught regularly in schools up to the late seventies, and gregorian chant until at least the early seventies, so you don't have to be all that old to have some knowledge. Have you read "Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis?" Its a g...
by nazard
Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: What hymns?
Replies: 12
Views: 6615

For the vigil I will be using "At the Lamb's high feast we sing" for Offertory, and since everyone will have had quite enough of singing by communion we will be doing the Communion Antiphon "Pascha Nostra" from the Graduale Romanum if I have recovered from my present cold in time...
by nazard
Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Recessional Hymns
Replies: 15
Views: 10797

I thought the words the bishops used in the girm, although they discourage a recessional hymn, do not forbid it. I read their text as giving us the option.
by nazard
Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:48 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Communion song anyone?
Replies: 12
Views: 8765

Nick, i have exactly the same problem. There are just a few hymns that the congregation will sing on their way to communion, and those very half heartedly. They will not take their books with them, so it is understandable. Our previous pp insisted that the communion queue is a ceremonial procession ...
by nazard
Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Boy Bishop
Replies: 25
Views: 12144

...as far as architecture is concerned, I think Liverpool and Clifton have stronger claims. If you like Clifton Cathedral, please take it away. I always think that it looks as though the shuttering collapsed when they were pouring the concrete. Surely that odd shape must be an accident? The acousti...
by nazard
Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hail glorious St Patrick
Replies: 22
Views: 13894

Err - have I got a rogue copy? No, sorry. I didn't look at any congregation copies. In the congregation copy the chorus "On Erin's green..." is in italics, a convention used consistently in that book to indicate a chorus. In the full music edition the type does not change when the chorus ...
by nazard
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:16 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hail glorious St Patrick
Replies: 22
Views: 13894

I have looked through the parish music library, more usually know as that **** untidy heap, and been surprised to find the following: No hymnbook actually use "on Erin's green..." as the chorus. The "New Catholic Hymnal" and the "Catholic Hymn Book" tell you to use the ...
by nazard
Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:05 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Hail glorious St Patrick
Replies: 22
Views: 13894

I have never heard it done any other way but to use "On Erin's green valley" for every verse. The youth of our parish find the line "Thou who art high in the mansions above" very amusing, giving it a totally different meaning to that which I suspect the author intended. When I ge...
by nazard
Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:41 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liverpool Rite of Election
Replies: 8
Views: 5733

Congratulations to Salford! A programme I am sorry to have missed and which I have filed a copy of in my system for future reference.

Thank you mcb for posting it.
by nazard
Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:22 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Migrant workers and music
Replies: 16
Views: 11787

This discussion is getting a little silly. Surely, the point is that if we all did what the Vatican Council and the CDW tell us to do, and sing enough simple latin to keep the congregations familiar with it, then the migrants who come here would come across something they know and feel at home once ...
by nazard
Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:29 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Migrant workers and music
Replies: 16
Views: 11787

There must be at least one native latin speaker about. Someone painted "Veni, vidi, ivi" on a local school wall.