Society of Saint Gregory

I just looked it up, and I can't see anything wrong with it. As a children's service, it might be a good way of connecting local faith schools during Christmastide, a reminder to them that the holiday season is Christmas, not the two months before it. I agree with Petrasancta, and there is no reason...

Mind you I can see why a PP might query it. What exactly is a Christingle service anyway? What is its Moravian counterpart? - I can't imagine it was called Christingle in Moravia, wherever that is.

Welcome, Petrasancta. While I'm not mad keen on the thought of a mass with no singing at all, I think you make a good point, that where a number of masses are available (I'm guessing you mean sunday masses), as much effort should be made to have a mass 'by the book' so to speak, i.e. sing only the p...

pirate wrote:...wearing a belly dancing belt of gold coins which she swooshed in rhythm...

That's an even more interesting concept! I think we should do more to nurture talents such as these. Belly dancing is a truly under-rated form of praise. What thinkest the forum's noble thinkers?

Hasn't Bernadette Farrell done a ton of childrens music?

Darned right. Parpinetto's trumpet involuntary in Z minor and whoopee! it's out with the Fat stops. Never mind that poor guy in the 74th pew who doesn't speak a word of English and would like to spend some private time after mass praying to his God, having had to sit through another hour of incompre...

Demarcation etc yes there does tend to be, between the organ, wot is held in high steam by the powers that be, and er, just about every other instrument unless it's part of a full-fledged orchestra, which few of our local churches have. I think scrubbity-scrub on ye jolly stringbox has pretty much l...

thirteen pigs a-flying *beep* you and your statistical probabilities! though it would fit the song slightly better... As for importance (ed), I would put Epiphanies above Baptism because of the more global sense of 'this one is special', and that news of His arrival would soon spread to many far of...

No, I think the Epiphany remains the Epiphany, and the Baptism just gets sort of bypassed this year, presumably because the Baptism's subtitle is "First in Ordinary time", thus the first 'ordinary' (i.e. the first in an ordered sequence, not 'ordinary' in the modern sense of 'unexciting' o...

Merry Christmas Reginald - you'll be pleased to know that EP1 is alive and well in West Sussex, where I am spending my yuletide, and not just any old EP1, but with full Chrysogonuses and Agathas, seeing as it's Christmas, Yeah! Let's hear it for the less well known saints. Are you still in an EP1 de...

It's like a novena innit, only with twelve, only some people says it's thirteen like in a Baker's dozen, during Jewish leap years , and the five gold rings, they're like the seven sacraments ain't they? only there's five, and french hens are like the trinity, and the two turtles, they was like the t...

Would Ben mind if I fine-tuned his worthy travails? I'm not sure if mine will still fit the required metre, but it seems to be rhythmic enough to pass for poetry. Here goes: The light of Advent candle one means preparation has begun. Christ, the Lord of everything, be born on Earth to be our king. c...

Yes (anne) I noticed that too about the candles, and it wasn't the only site that expressed some murkiness over what the sequence is. Apparently there is a feeling in certain churches that the penultimate sunday should be more significant, and with my simple brain active, I can see their point (I ex...

That's a very good idea Gwyn, it could be SSG's gift to the world. Anybody else fancy a spot of munificent not-for-profit-making? Many different but valid views are being expressed here. Strangely, I cannot comment on the toshness or otherwise of LTAC1 because I've never heard it, let alone sung it....

This thread has been dead for a bit, perhaps for obvious reasons, but as I was looking into the issue on the web I thought I'd tell everyone about those nice people down at the liturgy office who help us pretty neatly at this link: http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/liturgy/Resources/Copyright/Info.html ...