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by oopsorganist
Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Parish difficulties
Replies: 8
Views: 5493

parish difficulties

Phew Been to church and still alive. Only some of the odd bods were there tonight and they pointedly did not sing. I was shaking when I arrived and saying the prayer above about being brave. The singing was not strong but I could hear the congregation by the end of the Mass. To make it more fun... t...
by oopsorganist
Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:30 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Parish difficulties
Replies: 8
Views: 5493

parish difficulties

Thankyou VML and Dunstan I will pray. I want peace for my part in parish duties and during services. I also need these sopranos! I will pray for the courage to deal constructively with the distress and disturbance which these individuals must be feeling and hope that help will come, even if it is ju...
by oopsorganist
Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:42 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Parish difficulties
Replies: 8
Views: 5493

Parish difficulties

This is a very sad post. We have some parishioners who used to "choose the hymns" and were generally known as the "song group". Last Easter they fell out with the PP over the Easter Triduum Music. He said that he did not want a few people to do all the jobs in the church and that...
by oopsorganist
Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Question for Latin scholars
Replies: 12
Views: 16441

Latin

Oo er What a thread! Very scholarly. They wouldn't let me in the Latin class at my school because I was a bit dim. I think it is a beautiful language and glad I do not have to worry much about wether the translation means this or that. It is the official language of the church but I have to wonder i...
by oopsorganist
Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:09 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Exsultet
Replies: 2
Views: 2798

Exsultet

Well here we are again. Easter looms and we do not know how to sing the Exsultet. It maybe I cannot even spell it! Is there a place on the web where I can download it onto something (not that I really know how to do this but maybe the kinder can help). Or somewhere to find (preferably free) download...
by oopsorganist
Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:57 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: CFE versus Laudate
Replies: 9
Views: 5874

CFE V. Laudate

I just had to look up hymns for Triduum in HON and CFE to see which was best to use for Easter and I found that there is not an Ubi Caritas in the CFE? That's strange. Anyway it looks like I will have to type up all words as I can't get the music from one book or t'other. Not that I have anything el...
by oopsorganist
Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: when to begin "Lord Have Mercy"
Replies: 4
Views: 4016

when to begin "Lord Have Mercy"

Hello When should we start the Kyrie? Father asked me to play it after he does the absolution words "May....." which is after we have all said it anyway and it interferes with the start of the Goria so that may be why we always chant the Gloria even if we have the music out and ready. Any ...
by oopsorganist
Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Examination of conscience for musicians
Replies: 9
Views: 6129

examination of conscience for musicians

Oo er When I examine my conscience I find that I will be warm, very warm, eternally. And do you know, that the very thought of eternity spent singing and praising the Lord conjures up such images of spite and vendetta that I am feared of Paradise. How on earth do they choose the hymns in Heaven and ...
by oopsorganist
Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:43 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Loved it/hated it!
Replies: 26
Views: 14988

forgotten

Mersysider
Aww, you were just having a Bernini Moment!
by oopsorganist
Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:52 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Lent and Easter
Replies: 2
Views: 2669

planning ahead

Dear Paul

no criticism intended, only thanks for your help and support!

Without the Planner we would be not be singing and I would be dafter than I am. Good on you and Blessings too.
by oopsorganist
Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:04 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Lent and Easter
Replies: 2
Views: 2669

Lent and Easter

Jolly Holly Christmas tree still not decorated as second daughter is in Canada with bf and no else is interested. Decorations are in box under tree if anyone would like to come and do this for me. So, having prepared for the Christmas season and up to the eighth Sunday of the year, what can I do for...
by oopsorganist
Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Vigil Mass at Christmas
Replies: 26
Views: 11642

Vigil Mass

Greetings of a Christmas Kind Well, in spite of a funeral suddenly blocking the final practice our service went like a bomb. The church was full though not as many as last year I think. We began singing carols from the back of the church. Coerced my own daughters into doing this with their friends -...
by oopsorganist
Tue Dec 06, 2005 9:44 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Christmas Carols
Replies: 12
Views: 8906

christmas carols

That's irresistible Docmattc Played this tune 6 times In last sixteen hours Some would by now have got the notes just right All the right notes but not in the right places Sing this bit quietly Sing this a bit louder Now give it some wellie Christmas Beer Shall I play safe and Keep to main arrangeme...
by oopsorganist
Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:27 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Vigil Mass at Christmas
Replies: 26
Views: 11642

carols

You are absolutely right - what was I thinking of? I should just be glad to hear them sing! Which they will for sure. And I shall wear my Santa hat and try to get the temporary Deacon to play the Midnight Mass so I can watch a service from somewhere posh and medieval with a glass of wine in my hand ...
by oopsorganist
Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Kyrie eleison
Replies: 14
Views: 8606

Kyrie - copyright

I just looked up the Christmas songs on Wild goose website that have been suggested on Carol thread and I found that Wildgoose do a USSR Kyrie listed on their song PDF file which my just be the one we are discussing. However, I do not know if the arrangement is trad or composed and so should we cont...