Society of Saint Gregory

alan29 wrote:Just to quote the General Introduction to the Roman Missal
"The altar should be built separate from the wall........."

I am informed by a priest friend that there is some debate as to the accuracy of the translation of that line. Can anyone cast any light?

26th June. North Wales. 1st Holy Communion Mass - my Goddaughter being one of the First Communicants. Two nylon-strung guitars strumming the following..... Entrance:- I, the Lord of sea and sky Gloria:- Anderson/clappy-clappy!!!! Readings: I think they were from the "Good News" translation...

You are more accommodating than I am. I offered our PP the singing of the seasonal Marian antiphon at the end of Mass, which he declined. So our nod to May/October is restricted to the saying of the "Hail Holy Queen" or "Memorare" instead of the Hail Mary.

Indeed. I think that this is something with most liturgy-geeks seem to miss: no matter what the theological back-story is, people like singing hymns, for all sorts of reasons connected to their own spirituality. If Catholicism had some other mechanism for addressing this spiritual need, then we wou...

I do find it bad manners when someone starts preparing for the next part of the Mass when the part you are on is not completed; it's like the waiter who starts to clear up the plates of some of the party when the rest have not finished eating! It detracts massively from the dignity of the Mass and c...

I feel your pain.

I would have been on my smartphone looking for alternatives in the area!!

I do believe that, for next year, I have persuaded the PP to use the extended form of the Pentecost Vigil Mass!! However, I suspect that I may have a mutiny on my hands if we immediately introduce the full Extended Form. Can anyone tell me whether we are "permitted" to have, say, two or th...

Every couple of years I am asked to coordinate the Deanery Confirmation Mass. Given that there is no Diocesan-prescribed Mass setting, we use settings that are responsorial in nature or adapt one of my own settings to make it responsorial - not ideal but, short of using the Missal tones (which, I su...

Careful, people: there are a lot of confident statements about copyright here - and a similar number of equally confident rebuttals. It is all getting very confusing. I am going to suggest to the SSG Trustees that it would be an act of service on their part if they were to commission an authoritati...

JW wrote:Says a lot when everyone sings unaccompanied and without printed word, at a football match, but nery a squeak in church!

Because everyone at the football ground is an "intentional disciple" of their team.

For some reason I appear to have missed this thread when it was first posted. If they were employees it would be possible to do something. But as volunteers they are immovable. But this shouldn't be the case. Ministries in the Church are about using your gifts in service to others and to the glory o...

I'm afraid not. I'm fairly sure that I have seen a TV news/magazine article on this priest.

It makes me want to vomit!

If this occurred during the reception I would think it tacky, shuffle awkwardly in my chair and probably go to the bar or the little boys room until it was finished. But, for it to happen in church............

At one time, my old PP liked to play CDs via the PA system. Very loud. Very very loud. Lots of chant and such like, most holy. It was like stepping into a holy musical box of some sort. Quite bizarre. A former PP of one of our parishes didn't appreciate the musical and liturgical taste of an availa...

You are not, by any means, alone, Keith. I find it to be a significant issue in our parish. I am less aware of it when our group is playing as we are up in the choir loft and I'm running round like a headless chicken; but on the weeks when we are not playing and I'm sitting in the nave I am struck b...