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by keitha
Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:16 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Extraordinary Form
Replies: 23
Views: 17678

Re: Extraordinary Form

I think the point is that female servers were authorised for the Ordinary Form and, at the time, no-one could see any need to consider the Extraordinary Form because it was so rarely used. It's rather like the positions of deacons and subdeacons. In the Ordinary Form priests cannot act as either, bu...
by keitha
Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Only 20 hymns
Replies: 55
Views: 37929

Re: Only 20 hymns

I suppose if we are going to have a repertoire of only 20 hymns most of our liturgical niceties would have to go out of the window. The Entrance Antiphons for the Assumption vary from " Glorious things are spoken of you, O Mary, who today were exalted above the choirs of Angels into eternal tri...
by keitha
Mon Aug 01, 2016 12:24 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Tourism
Replies: 220
Views: 477292

Re: Liturgical Tourism

Just got back from a weekend in England/Wales border country. Mass was in an old market town in a beautifully restored/reordered Edwardian gothic church. Three hymns - Entrance:"Seek ye first", Offertory:"In bread we bring you Lord". Communion:fairly syrupy gospel song from a CD,...
by keitha
Fri May 06, 2016 6:22 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Realising Bishop Alan's hope
Replies: 53
Views: 39068

Re: Realising Bishop Alan's hope

It didn't happen in quite the way envisaged by Musicus, but I led a session at a Composers Forum on the 'Permission to Publish' process and copyright after that. Now that we have our new website, with more facilities, a guide to copyright and performance rights will be uploaded (eventually, when I g...
by keitha
Fri May 06, 2016 5:19 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Canon Peter Jones
Replies: 16
Views: 21630

Re: Canon Peter Jones

Just to add to SC's post - the music was led by a choir and cantors comprising members of the Diocesan Singers, who Fr Peter brought together to sing at diocesan events during the year, former pupils and SSG members - a group of around 75 singers in all, directed by Paul Inwood.
by keitha
Fri Apr 15, 2016 6:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Canon Peter Jones
Replies: 16
Views: 21630

Re: Canon Peter Jones

Just to confirm that Fr Peter will be brought into Holy Redeemer, Pershore for a Parish and Deanery Requiem Mass at 7pm on Monday 2 May. His funeral mass, at which Archbishop Bernard Longley will preside, will be at St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham at noon on Tuesday 3 May. May he rest in peace.
by keitha
Sun Apr 10, 2016 12:17 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Canon Peter Jones
Replies: 16
Views: 21630

Canon Peter Jones

I'm very sorry to inform members of the Society of StGregory and contributors to, and readers of this forum that Canon Peter Jones, priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, composer and a previous secretary of SSG and contributor to this forum died peacefully this morning after a long illness. May h...
by keitha
Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:42 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mass setting by Gordon Rock/other Masses
Replies: 30
Views: 22893

Re: Mass setting by Gordon Rock/other Masses

I chose my words very carefully because I share SC's views that not all of the Mass "ordinary" texts are ICEL copyright. But, in summary: Lord, have mercy - public domain (except for Form III tropes - ICEL) Glory be - ICEL Holy, holy - probably ICET, authority claimed by ICEL - I'm not goi...
by keitha
Sun Mar 06, 2016 2:25 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mass setting by Gordon Rock/other Masses
Replies: 30
Views: 22893

Re: Mass setting by Gordon Rock/other Masses

Yes, JW, you are correct. If you write a musical setting using ICEL copyright texts for regular use in your own community/parish but nowhere else, with no charge being made you will still need ICEL permission and will need to insert the correct acknowledgement, but no fee will be charged. There will...
by keitha
Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:21 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mass setting by Gordon Rock/other Masses
Replies: 30
Views: 22893

Re: Mass setting by Gordon Rock/other Masses

Firstly, there has been no change in the position of the Bishops Conference position on the use of anything other than the 2010 translation at Mass - here is the extract from the Conference's 2014 statement: " The Bishops’ Conference has decided that from Pentecost Sunday, 8 June 2014 only sett...
by keitha
Wed Mar 02, 2016 1:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Noises off
Replies: 14
Views: 34592

Re: Noises off

I think that you may have misunderstood my original point. My issue is not with what happens when I am playing - like you, I find that if I play quite, reflective pre-Mass music people automatically quieten down if they are influenced by the mood that I have managed to create (even if I am providing...
by keitha
Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:59 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Noises off
Replies: 14
Views: 34592

Noises off

Some years ago a priest told me that people were complaining about after-Mass organ voluntaries because it made it hard for them chat with their friends in church. I suggested that they should be told that if they wanted to socialise after Mass this was a good thing and they should head for the coff...
by keitha
Mon Feb 01, 2016 6:35 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Do not be afraid.
Replies: 6
Views: 5667

Re: Do not be afraid.

...then we have "I watch the sunrise..." - :?
by keitha
Tue Jan 26, 2016 9:09 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Washing of the Feet
Replies: 3
Views: 3791

Re: The Washing of the Feet

Alan,

The mischievous side of me almost added that the Congregation was opening the stable door long after the horse had jumped over it...but I refrained!
by keitha
Mon Jan 25, 2016 7:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Washing of the Feet
Replies: 3
Views: 3791

The Washing of the Feet

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has decreed that those whose feet are to be washed are to be chosen from " the people of God ", rather than just men. The text of the Decree and Archbishop Arthur Roche's commentary on it will be posted on this websit...