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- Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:33 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Not sure about all this 'traditionalism'.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19550
Re: Not sure about all this 'traditionalism'.
Going back to the beginning of the thread, here's Benedict XVI on his way to France yesterday on the plane: QUESTION: What do you say to those in France who fear that the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum marks a step backwards with regard to the great insights of the Second Vatican Council? How can ...
- Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:27 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipes versus digital
- Replies: 94
- Views: 31876
Re: Pipes versus digital
Welcome to the forum, by the way, manniemain, and excuse me for leaving an exclamation mark off the end of my post - which might have indicated that the annoyance was not real. Musicus, do we have an emoticon for tongue-in-cheek? Is it this one: ? (Every forum seems to have a different set...)
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:35 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipes versus digital
- Replies: 94
- Views: 31876
Re: Pipes versus digital
manniemain wrote:Just to give an example of the point Nazard was making....
It would have been very helpful to have a quote to show what Nazard actually said, rather than having to scroll back through the entire thread to find the points made on the first page. <Netiquette rant off>
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:29 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Amazing Grace
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4925
Re: Amazing Grace
Teaching on the Real Presence is undone in a trice if a congregation are invited to sing "He comes to me in sharing Bread and Wine" or "Too soon we rise the Symbols disappear" Why oh Why, do Priests (admittedly not ours)insist on these hymns? At the risk of being rebuked because...
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:24 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Robing
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8225
Re: Robing
If robes are to be worn, the baptismal garment of all Christians is the alb, not the cassock and surplice. However, IMHO choirs only need to be robed if they are going to process - cf. the holes in Mrs Trellis's jeans. Otherwise, all the arguments already put forward about clericalization, separatio...
- Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:27 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Not sure about all this 'traditionalism'.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19550
Re: Not sure about all this 'traditionalism'.
Redemptionis Sacramentum: [112.] Mass is celebrated either in Latin or in another language, provided that liturgical texts are used which have been approved according to the norm of law. Except in the case of celebrations of the Mass that are scheduled by the ecclesiastical authorities to take place...
- Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:43 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: New translation
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3813
Re: New translation
The word on the street is that this text may not be the last word. The 40 amendments that the US Bishops requested have not yet been responded to by the CDW, and it seems fairly certain that the acclamation "Christ has died", which is currently conspicuous by its absence, may be reinstated...
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:39 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
- Replies: 81
- Views: 58476
Re: Incidental Music for Mass
Wayne plays everything too fast - a shame, because he is an ambassador for organ music and making a bit of a mess due to excessive speed is not the best way to be one. It could be due to nerves, or due to the fact that he thinks that playing faster than anyone else puts him on top (it doesn't). Or p...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:00 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
- Replies: 81
- Views: 58476
Re: Incidental Music for Mass
For fans of Taize music: Another little improvisatory gem on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AVRtgmyqto&NR=1 and a scary organ improvisation from the same performer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7jHGluT5Y Have to say that I wasn't very impressed by either of these. The second one m...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:11 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipes versus digital
- Replies: 94
- Views: 31876
Re: Pipes versus digital
asb is rather modestly not letting on that Jeremy Meager is the new managing director of Viscount, and that they are trying very hard to undo some of the problems that have arisen in the past because they subcontracted their installations to agents, some of whom were very good and some of whom were...
- Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:12 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipes versus digital
- Replies: 94
- Views: 31876
Re: Pipes versus digital
I have to say that I have listened to the Phoenix demo recordings, and I have also have had real Phoenix organs in churches demonstrated to me by the manufacturer and have played them. The difference is chalk and cheese. The recordings do sound good, but I suspect that this is because they have been...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:49 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipes versus digital
- Replies: 94
- Views: 31876
Re: Pipes versus digital
There are many situations in which a sampled digital electronic can be a better solution than a pipe organ. Many of the continuo pipe organs that have been installed in RC churches in recent decades in pursuit of one particular consultant's ideology are unsuited for today's liturgical requirements. ...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:02 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Year of St Paul
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4157
Re: Year of St Paul
It is a decree posted on the Vatican website - has also been repeated by our Liturgy Office and on Zenit. One Mass for St Paul may be celebrated in every church on Sunday 25 Jan as part of the Year of St Paul, using the readings for the feast. Since it's a Sunday, a 2nd reading will be needed, which...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:08 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipes versus digital
- Replies: 94
- Views: 31876
Re: Pipes versus digital
I can understand the concerns about the original Hammonds, which are now valuable collectors pieces because of their distinctive (by which I mean "not like a pipe organ") sound. Lest anyone should misunderstand, what the Congregation for Rites was asked about in 1938 was whether it was OK...
- Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:51 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Incidental Music for Mass
- Replies: 81
- Views: 58476
Re: Incidental Music for Mass
An amusing historical footnote: On 5 December 1938 the Sacred Congregation of Rites was asked if it would give its approval to the instrument known as a Hammond Organ. The Congregation's preliminary reply was negative, and was definitively confirmed on 4 September 1939. It appears that neither the C...