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- Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:31 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Communion Songs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 89846
Re: Communion Songs
GIRM 86: While the Priest is receiving the Sacrament, the Communion Chant is begun, its purpose being to express the spiritual union of the communicants by means of the unity of their voices, to show gladness of heart, and to bring out more clearly the ‘communitarian’ character of the procession to ...
- Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:53 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Easter Blessings!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22405
Easter Blessings!
Hope the Triduum was a blessed time for you all, even if a multitude of things went wrong?were disorganized/chaotic.
You survived, and your communities certainly benefitted from your ministry!
Now relax, and enjoy Eastertide!
You survived, and your communities certainly benefitted from your ministry!
Now relax, and enjoy Eastertide!
- Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Easter Vigil lights.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 31224
Re: Easter Vigil lights.
Although in most things Paul Turner is good value, here I think he falls into the trap of trying to defend the indefensible. He might at least have criticised the completely gratuitous Sign of the Cross at the beginning of the Easter Vigil instead of using it to bolster his rather weak argument.
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 8:12 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Easter Vigil lights.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 31224
Re: Easter Vigil lights.
The same rubric was in the 1969 Missale Romanum and people ignored it then, so why not now? It's not the only error of judgement in the Third Edition of the Roman Missal by a long way. In my experience of Easter Vigils, not only has the Exsultet been sung by candlelight but the readings have also fa...
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:24 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
- Replies: 18
- Views: 54168
Re: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
Has anyone else had to accompany the missal tone for the Exsultet because the priest who insisted on sing it (the long version at that) was so musically challenged that he was likely to set off somewhere in the alto register and end up like a Russian contra bass? Yes, but only when the priest himse...
- Fri Apr 01, 2022 8:21 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
- Replies: 18
- Views: 54168
Re: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
One PP once asked for a version with responses that he'd heard elsewhere (can't remember who it was by) IIRC there was an instruction in it that the cantor raised an arm when they reached the phrase that the assembly were supposed to repeat. I seem to remember that it went quite well, although I wa...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 9:56 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The new constitution for the Roman Curia - Praedicate Evangelium
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10597
Re: The new constitution for the Roman Curia - Praedicate Evangelium
Interesting that it contained a reference to the "Extraordinary Form", which some traditionalists interpreted to mean that this term was still acceptable. The truth is more prosaic. Large parts of this lengthy document were drafted before Traditionis Custodes was issued, and this remaining...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 1:03 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
- Replies: 18
- Views: 54168
Re: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
VML mentions singing the Exsultet as a woman. Brava! This is one area where clericalism has once again reared its head in recent years. Deacons feel, or are told by priests, that they should be singing it, even if they are completely incapable of it. The chant version, particularly as messed up in t...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:31 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: So sad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20043
Re: So sad
One thing that kept our young families away was that the toilets were closed. Since they were reopened, the young familes have come back — not yet in the previous numbers but certainly noticeable. Liturgy of the Word for Children started again at the beginning of Advent.
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:02 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: So sad
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20043
Re: So sad
But now congregations are singing again, even more strongly than before the pandemic began. This includes many from other countries who love singing even more than we do!
- Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:13 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
- Replies: 18
- Views: 54168
Re: Limited supply of Psalmists for the Easter Vigil
They can be read, or replaced with silence. Don't think it's a good idea to add yet more readings to a liturgy already heavily laden with them. I would consider going down the route of singing each psalm so that it sounds different. For example (1) sung a cappella, (2) [Canticle of Moses], sung acc...
- Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:55 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: "Adoration and Chips"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8450
"Adoration and Chips"
What is wrong with everybody? It's not that long ago that we had a situation where, every time Catholics came together for anything, they expected to "have Mass". It was as if our collective memory had forgotten all the other things that we could do together, whether the Divine Office, Tai...
- Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:00 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29220
Re: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
I would agree about the body blow that the new translation caused. It is scandalous that, 11 years on, we still have to endure liturgical texts that quite simply aren't in a language that anyone speaks. If anyone is happy with prevenient grace, the immensity of his majesty, consubstantial and so muc...
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:45 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 29220
Re: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
I do sympathise with how depressing all this is. And of course it's not the first time it has happened. I remember in the mid-1990s thinking "How is it that these people have never heard all the stuff we were doing and thinking 25 years ago in the early 70s? Where have they been?" Back in ...
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:24 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: New Guidelines from the Bishops Conference of England & Wales
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12736
Re: New Guidelines from the Bishops Conference of England & Wales
I think that will be true in more than a few places, alas. At the same time, I think the bishops may have relaxed some things too early. Removing the mask mandate, which is certainly protecting people to some extent from a virulent variant, seems unwise, even if the government has done this. We owe ...