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by Nick Baty
Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Communion Songs
Replies: 16
Views: 71007

Re: Communion Songs

Back in the 60s, my tenor grandfather would attend 8am Mass to receive Communion and then return to sing at 11.15am. He would have breakfast in the gap – I can still picture him eating behind the (then broadsheet) Catholic Herald!
by Nick Baty
Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:38 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Communion Songs
Replies: 16
Views: 71007

Re: Communion Songs

Excellent and thorough reply from SC, as usual. One logistical problem, already referred to above, is what happens if there is no cantor or choir to keep the song going during the time of distribution? With the exception of the Cantor, our musicians receive with everyone else and, therefore, help to...
by Nick Baty
Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:04 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Communion Songs
Replies: 16
Views: 71007

Communion Songs

I have something of a thing about Communion Processionals – if they can be described as “A Thing”. And I’m just fact-checking here. Comments and discussion more than welcome. From what I know about music during the Communion procession: • Psalms in early centuries • Later antiphon and psalm • Somewh...
by Nick Baty
Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:09 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Vigil lights.
Replies: 11
Views: 26502

Re: Easter Vigil lights.

The same rubric was in the 1969 Missale Romanum and people ignored it then People ignoring rubrics? Surely not!!! :lol: the readings have also fairly often been proclaimed in a darkened church, the lights coming on at the Gloria. In my previous place, we didn't have a Gloria at the vigil – instead,...
by Nick Baty
Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Vigil lights.
Replies: 11
Views: 26502

Re: Easter Vigil lights.

High Peak wrote: Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:43 pm After the third "Lumen Christi" and the Paschal Candle has been placed on a stand next to the Ambo or in the middle of the sanctuary, the lights are lit throughout the church, except for the altar candles.
Surely we should remain in candlelight for the Exsultet!
by Nick Baty
Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:19 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Sequence
Replies: 5
Views: 20290

Re: Easter Sequence

Where is your PP planning to add this item? After Romans 6, the priest (or cantor) intones the first Alleluias of Easter, with verses from Psalm 117 this also forms an extended Gospel procession. Not sure where the sequence could be squeezed in. Sure he's not talking about Easter Day?
by Nick Baty
Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:34 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
Replies: 12
Views: 24703

Re: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"

alan29 wrote: Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:33 pmOur congregation which used to sing the Mass lustily now is barely audible through their masks during the four hymns that all our PP allows.
Its very, very sad.
Would love to ask your PP why the virus is a less of a risk during hymns that it would be during the bits we're supposed to be singing! 8)
by Nick Baty
Sat Jan 29, 2022 7:14 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"
Replies: 12
Views: 24703

Re: " . . Old forgotten far-off things, and battles long ago"

I have similar feeling of gloom. Currently working with a group of undergrads. All very lovely, intelligent young people. But they want "solid Victorian Catholic hymns", 17th century polyphony and Gregorian chant. If I mention a Communion Processional, they look at me strangely. And the Go...
by Nick Baty
Thu Dec 23, 2021 9:24 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mill Hill Chapel
Replies: 5
Views: 12005

Re: Mill Hill Chapel

Know the Liverpool Unitarian church well. I was cantor at the first civil partnership on church premises there – around nine(?) years ago. The minister at the time was formerly a teacher in our parish school.
by Nick Baty
Sat Nov 13, 2021 5:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Sr Pauline Clarke, RIP
Replies: 6
Views: 16834

Re: Sr Pauline Clarke, RIP

Very fond memories of Pauline. May she rest in peace.
by Nick Baty
Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:46 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Mission Opportunity
Replies: 7
Views: 14823

Re: Mission Opportunity

oopsorganist wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:47 pmThere are many of us, millions, who will not be able to access these venues now...
And many more of us who will be able to go out for the first time. For those of us who are vulnerable, everywhere is currently our of bounds.
by Nick Baty
Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: SSG Summer School 2021
Replies: 4
Views: 11529

Re: SSG Summer School 2021

High Peak wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:39 pmThe bar was a little disappointing, however. :lol:
Couldn't disagree more. I found it so good that I struggled slightly on the Friday! :)
by Nick Baty
Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:06 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: "Responsorial" Gloria
Replies: 10
Views: 20205

Re: "Responsorial" Gloria

Be aware, if you use this, that it is known as the "My Little Pony" Mass. To give just one example: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicTalkShow/videos/dan-schuttes-my-little-pony-gloria-the-catholic-talk-show/777730865953473/ Made the mistake of listening. You know that feeling when you can...
by Nick Baty
Sat May 01, 2021 8:26 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: New Translation of the Lectionary incoming
Replies: 34
Views: 154908

Re: New Translation of the Lectionary incoming

I will probably remain something of a psalm refusenik. In the present lectionary, the text of the refrain is rarely long enough to sing and it frequently has no obvious link to the preceding reading, to which is responds. In my (alas, now former) parish, we often sang eight-bar refrains. We develope...
by Nick Baty
Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:53 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: The Government's Guidelines for Public Worship II - the return of choir groups
Replies: 43
Views: 44249

Re: The Government's Guidelines for Public Worship II - the return of choir groups

Why not just throw in the towel and accept it is all over? Because it isn't. It is for some of us Can I presume you live in a part of the world where there are so many pastoral musicians champing at the bit that you will never be able to serve again? We've just lost our building. But we have no int...