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- Sun Jun 11, 2017 10:16 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Offertory hymns
- Replies: 34
- Views: 45201
Re: Offertory hymns
The best hymns for this time are actually those that reflect back upon the Liturgy of the Word we have just celebrated, which means that they will relate to the scriptures of the day. We celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist in the light of what we have celebrated in the Liturgy of the Word. The b...
- Sat Jun 10, 2017 10:44 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Offertory hymns
- Replies: 34
- Views: 45201
Re: Offertory hymns
Here are some more possibilities - some very old! I hope I am not duplicating other suggestions: O Bread of Heaven, beneath this veil : Originally in the Crown of Jesus Music. Brilliant tune by Hemy! However it has a tendency to sound a bit slushy and sentimental if it is not performed cleanly and ...
- Wed May 03, 2017 10:32 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Easter Octave
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6132
Re: Easter Octave
My understanding (FWIW) is that the Gloria is said/sung on every day of Easter week, but the Creed ... only on Easter Sunday and the 2nd Sunday of Easter... That's what my Weekday Missal says. However, it also adds that the Easter Sequence may be said or sung every day during Easter week - is that ...
- Wed May 03, 2017 10:24 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pentecost sequence.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 31419
Re: Pentecost sequence.
Veni Sancte Spiritus (Laudate 301) is the setting we've always used at my church and I intend to use it again this year. At risk of going off topic, has anyone any bright ideas for the Corpus Christi sequence?
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:59 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: New look website
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17641
Re: New look website
One oddity I've just realised is that when you're in the Discussion Forum there is a link back to the Board Index but I can't find one to take you back to the SSG Home Page. It's not serious for me, as I have the Home Page rather than the Board Index bookmarked, so maybe that's why it took me so lon...
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 10:40 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Composers group meeting in London on 19th Sept?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19983
Re: Composers group meeting in Yeovil on 6th May
Since posting this yesterday I have received confirmation that the meeting is happening, so apologies for a false alarm. It seems that gremlins had infiltrated the Composers' Group mailing list but have now been sent packing.
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:59 pm
- Forum: Sounds Off
- Topic: Composers group meeting in London on 19th Sept?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 19983
Composers group meeting in Yeovil on 6th May?
Unlike the situation Dot reported at the start of this thread the year before last, we now have a meeting that is advertised on the website for 6th May in Yeovil, but I have received no e-mails about it since February of this year. I don't know whether there have been e-mails, which for some reason ...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:41 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Offertory hymns
- Replies: 34
- Views: 45201
Re: Offertory hymns
We tend to use thematic or seasonal hymns. "Offertory" hymns are a last resort. I agree with this point: I too use thematic/seasonal hymns wherever possible, though the Masses I used to take may father to in his declining years (ten years ago, now) always went for "Offertory" hy...
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:26 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: You can't please all the people all of the time
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20821
Re: You can't please all the people all of the time
quaeritor wrote:I'm struggling with the maths (or the meaning?) here, Mary - am I missing something?
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My interpretation FWIW is that if one person is especially pleased, one dissatisfied and the rest sufficiently content not to say anything you must be doing OK.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:09 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: International Declaration on Sacred Music "Cantate Domino"
- Replies: 35
- Views: 27716
Re: International Declaration on Sacred Music "Cantate Domino"
One interesting omission: the document starts "We, the undersigned..." but has no names or signatures at the end. Do we know who wrote it?
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 9:11 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Mass and Rugby
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4154
Re: Mass and Rugby
While I was looking after my ailing parents I used to take them to their local Mass centre on Sundays and if the regular organist there was away I'd pick the hymns and accompany the singing. I used to get the same comment if I picked "Cwm Rhondda" even though I was totally unaware there wa...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:26 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Coping with mistakes/failures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6016
Re: Coping with mistakes/failures
Perhaps I should have been less prescriptive and phrased the start as "Is this the thread you're thinking of?" I can't think of another like it, though maybe someone else can.
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:27 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Mass translation may be revised?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 28132
Re: Mass translation may be revised?
Just over 50 years ago, when I was preparing to sit my “O” Levels, I was told that for the Latin exams translations had to be exact and I’d lose marks for any variations or approximations, but for the French exams I’d lose marks if the translations were too literal (“the pen of my aunt” etc) and sho...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:22 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Coping with mistakes/failures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6016
Re: Coping with mistakes/failures
I had a feeling there had been a similar topic in the past, but can't actually find it... Apologies in advance is this is a duplication! The thread you are thinking of, Hare, is http://www.ssg.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=611/ , and very sad reading it is, as the originator, despite many s...
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 6:57 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Come to the Manger
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9080
Re: Come to the Manger
Regarding the disputed supertonic 7th, the opening chords are as follows (reading upwards) in G (the carol used to be printed in A but G is more usual these days): G-B-D-G, E-G-C#-A, F#-A-C natural-D or I - II7c - V7b In the second half of the refrain they are: B-G-D-G, A-E-C#-A, D-F#-C natural-D o...