Society of Saint Gregory

Well, I was there, having been invited as SSG diocesan rep listed in the diocesan directory. (If the Society is not listed in your diocesan year book, why not? Contact your diocesan rep! Now is the time to get it in for 2010.) My seat was right at the back of the Holy Souls side chapel, at the back ...

The Society did register its congratulations to Paul in the recent issue of Music and Liturgy, page 4. (If you don't receive a copy because you are not a member, why not? )

I use this setting regularly for occasions when there are plenty of visitors, e.g. First Communions, Confirmation, Christmas Midnight Mass. Normally my 4-part choir lead the singing, and the congregation, encouraged by me as music leader/animator, repeat the refrain after its initial singing by the ...

See http://www.chabanelpsalms.org Note that the site is American, so the psalm text version is (I think) CCD - it certainly isn't Grail.

I have contacted Dr Hemming at the Society of St Catherine of Siena and will be attending the colloquium. He replied: We are getting a very good response, but do please circulate details to your members if you wish. Should any of your members want to attend, I’d be grateful if they would write to me...

musicus wrote:How about it Trustees?

Noted!

Perhaps readers would like to add questions to the 'starter for ten' list provided by Hare - and don't be put off by apparent daftness. The general standard of liturgical ignorance is profound!

Ideas about how to disseminate any resulting publication also welcome.

John Bell will be holding a day in London on Saturday 6th June. See http://www.rcdow.org.uk/fileupload/upload/UnsungJesus3283200921821.pdf for details.

ecumenical New Fire at the Anglican church ................before dispersing to our several churches to light our several Paschal candles. But from what do you light your Paschal Candle? From the light taken from the ecumenical New Fire (just!), conveyed by processional lantern, in procession throu...

In Barnet we have an ecumenical New Fire at the Anglican church right in the middle of town, so we lengthen the rite a little by a few apposite Scriptural verses about light before dispersing to our several churches to light our several Paschal candles. The firelighter got the fire lit brilliantly r...

Very thought-provoking. Allow me to enter the fray, as a non-instrumentalist. The prime form of liturgical music is song, because 'as sacred melody united to words, it forms a necessary or integral part of solemn liturgy' (SC 112). It follows that the principal purpose of instruments in liturgical w...

...simple chant-based replacements just don't work with the stresses of English, not even when they are tweaked slightly. That presumably is why everyone from reformation on has invented their own native language chants. There certainly is a role for chant-based music, but I fear that a mangled ver...

I've tried many versions over the years. My current favourite is Chris O'Hara's from Resurrexit . I like it enough to have written an extra two verses for it, so that it covers more of the biblical text: those in the congregation caught napping will have got the hang of it by verse three and still h...

We know, from those who worked on them, that the antiphons in the Missal were only included so that the plainchant people could continue to use the prolix pieces of chant in the Graduale. And we also know that these antiphons were themselves never intended for singing - and certainly not in the ver...

johnquinn39 wrote:- Have a listen to the above singing 'Lamb of God' - this is really superb - http://www.myspace/stpatricksgospelchoir

The correct URL is http://www.myspace.com/stpatricksgospelchoir

If you haven't listened to it, do so. It's quite an ear-opener.

I recall the liturgical principle that no-one should exercise more than one ministry at any one celebration Sorry to remain OT, but does anyone know the documentary source for this principle? I'm beginning to tackle the issue. The principle of the diversity of liturgical ministry is explained in th...