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- Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:44 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: We're having a nativity play...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9336
Re: We're having a nativity play...
And so the running order pre Vigil Mass is - Once in Royal David's City, Little Donkey (apparently included because it is accessible to children and I do quote), Away in a Manger, Silent Night, We Three Kings and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. (With brief readings and costumes)... There was a series ...
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:10 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: St Thomas of Canterbury
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9198
Re: St Thomas of Canterbury
According to my local Ordo, the school had it right, as it gives 9th December as the date of the "Solemnity (Office Proper) (transferred)" of the Immaculate Conception. That suggests Priest 2 was wrong and even Priest 1 was on rather dubious ground. A similar case occurred earlier this yea...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:43 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: St Thomas of Canterbury
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9198
Re: St Thomas of Canterbury
Thanks, JW, that is how I had inferred it from your description. I just feel that "rid me" are important words and so need longer notes than "of this" and that putting them on crotchet C#s and the less important words on quaver As achieves this; it also matches the notes if not t...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:40 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: We're having a nativity play...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9336
Re: We're having a nativity play...
Oops, your posts made me think of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln01p1M2cH0 , which someone from my parish forwarded to me the other day in a chain of e-mails that included comments like " This is wonderful, please take time to listen to this song. It is so sad that even some of our local...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:00 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: St Thomas of Canterbury
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9198
Re: St Thomas of Canterbury
JW wrote:If singing to 'Rockingham' in D, it works best if you change the 1st minim in bar 10 to 2 quavers for "rid me", then use a crotchet dropping to the note A for "of", ...
Wouldn't it be better to use two crotchet C#s on "rid me" and two quaver As on "of this"?
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:05 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: St Thomas of Canterbury
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9198
Re: St Thomas of Canterbury
Many thanks, JW. I'd forgotten about your hymn and the fact that I'd even contributed to the thread mentioning it! I'll see if my PP can fit the third verse to the tune: even though dropping the "turbulent" will make the line scan perfectly well you clearly don't want me to do that!
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:22 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: St Thomas of Canterbury
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9198
St Thomas of Canterbury
In my neck of the woods the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury takes precedence over that of the Holy Family this year, so I need to find some appropriate hymns for Mass. I've come across this one but don't know its author or copyright status. Can anyone help, please? I've quoted only a few snippets o...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:18 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Going down to one Mass
- Replies: 34
- Views: 18122
Re: Going down to one Mass
The plan going forwards is: * To continue to select hymns which are a balance of modern and traditional, or right down the middle, as far as possible. * To alternate between the Latin and English ordinary reasonably evenly - a few weeks at a time on each. I reckon this one will have to be judged as...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:20 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Traditional or Contemporary?
- Replies: 98
- Views: 60756
Re: Traditional or Contemporary?
The questions of getting the assembly to become more familiar with chant is indeed an issue and in my parish we are only taking baby steps. That is why I would welcome support from the SSG in helping to promote and teach chant, as it did in 1933. I always thought I was born in the wrong decade - I ...
- Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:42 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Psalm for the feast of the Transfiguration
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13305
Re: Psalm for the feast of the Transfiguration
Many years ago I fitted the words of this Psalm to a polonaise for chorus and orchestra by Glinka for a concert in Portsmouth. As the original title of the piece was "Great is our God" it was not as inappropriate as it may sound. If you're using it as the Responsorial Psalm it would unfort...
- Thu May 23, 2013 9:54 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Happy Birthday Wagner!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9829
Re: Happy Birthday Wagner!
Parsifal includes some fine liturgies of the Holy Grail, though nothing we could use at Mass - no connection with the Grail Psalm translations we use.
- Wed May 01, 2013 10:21 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Two Issues (Communion Hymns and Month of May)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 33193
Re: Two Issues (Communion Hymns and Month of May)
Has this instruction come from the PP? Yes it has. That's what I feared, Helen, in which case (sadly) you're probably on a hiding to nothing. Unfortunately, ...Sung texts need not speak of bread and wine, nor of offering. Texts expressing joy, praise, community as well as the spirit of the season ,...
- Wed May 01, 2013 12:22 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Two Issues (Communion Hymns and Month of May)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 33193
Re: Two Issues (Communion Hymns and Month of May)
We will be singing 'As I kneel before you' after the communion antiphon, I think next week. A few years ago I played in the music group at a Confirmation Mass and was appalled to see this as one of the postcommunion hymns (it was in November, so not even the Maytime excuse could be called up). When...
- Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:47 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Catholic influence on the wider Church
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12023
Re: Catholic influence on the wider Church
No offence taken at all, Nick! However, we're in danger of drifting off-topic again, so I've posted a reply at http://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1414&p=23652#p23652 . Maybe we should discuss here whether the Israeli Mass, or the ban on items like it, is having any influence on...
- Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:43 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Kevin Mayhew
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14799
Re: Kevin Mayhew
On another thread, ...except that since the new Missal came in they no longer use the "Israeli Mass" .... Have heard quite a few similar comments in the last couple of years suggesting that the new translation banned such items. In fact, they were outlawed around 1985 – although they had n...