Society of Saint Gregory

Very glad to hear it was positive experience.

I seriously doubt that adults trying to pander to children's tastes will impress or include them. With this I Sing Pop! initiative, laudable as it is, I can't help wondering if it is the opportunity to make music, with all its electronic accutriments, and to make a recording of it, that is the draw ...

And a few free-to-use but hopefully return Rosaries are a must!

Most of the items listed are ephermeral. Designate persons to: remove out-of-date collection envelopes (such as Cafod - I've seen tables with both Lent and Harvest envelopse); remove ANY dog-earred offerings, no matter how relevant; and thin out the prayer board, maybe by operating an invisible fort...

That's the folks; she played for a number of years, and then their daughter Mildred until she took ill. There are also extensive press reports of concerts, soirees etc, where they participated.

My next wedding seems to be suitably vague. Starting time of about 4.30 or maybe 5 on the Wednesday after Christmas, with everyone arriving by bus from the reception. They are expecting me, priest and registrar to hang around while they ferry over 100 guests, who are only expecting an engagement par...

We used to sing this at every evening funeral reception; Lord alone knows what non-practicising or non-RC folks made of it. As for the initials - I was told that the piece was written by friends of the organist here in Whitby around the turn of the century, a Mrs Helen Alder and her husband Thomas, ...

I've finally found a copy of Out of the Depths, from a cupboard in the church. .

That'll mean more choices of unsuitable music - one tune for the bridesmaids and one for the bride.

Yes, that's the one - in D as far as I remember. We sang it one speed, and the undertaker, who sang at Egton Bridge, sang it another. What some of the (non-practicing) families thought I"ve no idea.
I"ll dig through the cupboard again and scan it in if I find it.

For many years we sang at the end of our Remembrance rite a unison choir piece 'Out of the depths' written by two folks named only by initial. It was published by Cary's and is thus well out of print. It was apparently written by friends of our then organist in the 1910s or 20s. It has fallen out of...

Get the same thing regularly when family mean either of the Lourdes hymns

For some years I regularly played funerals for the URC. The then minister always had an organist for them, as she felt we were attuned to mood and timings. Not once did she have muzak, even though they were fully set up for CD hymns as they had no organist of their own at the time. Recently at my us...

My choir ladies always make a point of saying they liked the hymn choice - or not! Downstairs I get moaned at it if I've played something they're not sure of; especially the Saturday night Mass, where they are likely to shut their books if they don't recognise the first line. We have a locum priest ...

I feel very lucky, following this thread, that my parish has, over the past few years, paid out and restored the pipe organ; thanks to the efforts of our present and immediate past PPs. Sadly, no-one else has come forward to even try the pipe organ, some saying they would but are afraid of its power...