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by John Ainslie
Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:56 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music Animator required
Replies: 43
Views: 27575

Music Animator required

Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Parish – Balham, London (SW12 8QJ) seeks to appoint, from September 2015, a practising Catholic as Music Animator for its very lively 9.30am Sunday Family Mass. The successful candidate will ideally be a guitar player, with an understanding of the Mass, and able to confiden...
by John Ainslie
Fri Jul 03, 2015 10:31 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Summer School 2015 - places still available!
Replies: 0
Views: 10960

Summer School 2015 - places still available!

It's still not too late to book a place at this year's Summer School - and in a nice countryside location in this hot weather! There are still some bedrooms free - and we really don't want to pay High Leigh for empty bedrooms! The FREE places for 18-35s are also still open. And there are plenty of £...
by John Ainslie
Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:04 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Timothy Campbell RIP
Replies: 3
Views: 5323

Re: Timothy Campbell RIP

Tim’s body will be brought into the church of Our Lady and St George, Walthamstow, E17 9HU at 5 pm on Wednesday 8th July and the Requiem Mass will be at 1 pm on Thursday 9th July, followed by burial at Leystonstone Catholic cemetery. The church is in a built-up area, so car parking may be very diffi...
by John Ainslie
Wed Jun 24, 2015 4:23 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Enrance Antiphon for Ss Peter & Paul - source?
Replies: 7
Views: 7005

Re: Enrance Antiphon for Ss Peter & Paul - source?

Jn 1: 6-7; Lk 1: 17 (I think) No, this is the reference for today's feast, The Birth of St John the Baptist. This new one for SS Peter & Paul is a bit of a mystery. The Missal asserts no biblical reference for the text at all, not even a "cf. ...". In fact, the second half has an allu...
by John Ainslie
Mon Jun 22, 2015 1:16 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Timothy Campbell RIP
Replies: 3
Views: 5323

Timothy Campbell RIP

Of your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Timothy Campbell, faithful SSG member, Summer School participant and the Society's representative in the diocese of Brentwood, who died suddenly in hospital last Thursday evening. There is to be a post-mortem, so details of his funeral will ...
by John Ainslie
Thu Jun 04, 2015 8:44 am
Forum: Sounds Off
Topic: To Heaven's Door: The Music of Faith
Replies: 3
Views: 14705

To Heaven's Door: The Music of Faith

I have been asked, presumably as SSG's Westminster diocesan rep, to bring this free event to your attention. It was advertised in the Tablet last weekend. Its advertisement says: If I travel in your company, you know the way to heaven's door. George Herbert, Church Music Music can give voice to our ...
by John Ainslie
Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:49 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music and Liturgy: Letter to the Editor
Replies: 28
Views: 17807

Re: Music and Liturgy: Letter to the Editor

Are De Angelis and Credo 3 actually proper Gregorian chant? When compared to the rich repertoire of Propers? In my view, no, they are not - and both Salve Regina (simple tone) and Regina coeli come into this category. Their uncompromising major-key tonality sets them apart from the older, modal rep...
by John Ainslie
Sun May 31, 2015 10:27 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Music and Liturgy: Letter to the Editor
Replies: 28
Views: 17807

Re: Music and Liturgy: Letter to the Editor

Firstly, the SSG has recently experienced problems with its email system. Apologies to all emailers whose messages disappeared into cyberspace. Hopefully full communications will be restored shortly. Secondly, I agree with Ephrem Feeley that the choice of music must depend on local circumstances - w...
by John Ainslie
Mon May 18, 2015 8:26 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O clap your hands
Replies: 5
Views: 5399

Re: O clap your hands

One of my most memorable liturgical 'moments' was at Mass for/with the local Catholic primary school in about 1973 - when Ascension Day was still correctly celebrated on its Thursday. The well-prepared child duly read 'All people, clap your hands' with acclamation, and the entire congregation, led b...
by John Ainslie
Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:43 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Vigil - when did you start and finish?
Replies: 43
Views: 52424

Re: Easter Vigil - when did you start and finish?

Alleluia SPOKEN!!!! Total travesty. Do you mean the celbrant said "Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia", then the Congregation said "Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia", then the celebrant again, etc through three iterations? A travesty indeed - did he use a higher voice each time? Q As a ma...
by John Ainslie
Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:04 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Easter Vigil - when did you start and finish?
Replies: 43
Views: 52424

Re: Easter Vigil - when did you start and finish?

Started at 8 - dark enough in London. Finished at 10.15. One confirmation, no baptisms/receptions, Litany and other sung requirements duly sung: the priest did a good job of the Exultet (long version). Minimum three OT readings.
by John Ainslie
Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:00 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Blessing and sprinkling
Replies: 2
Views: 3171

Re: Blessing and sprinkling

Ah! I see a new liturgical ministry of special interest to gardeners - catching rainwater to use in the Rite of Sprinkling in place of much-processed tap water. We'll call said gardener an Aquifer. And surely there are lots of suitable scriptural texts to go with it - e.g. Isaiah 55:10-11.
by John Ainslie
Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Christmas Greetings
Replies: 12
Views: 8943

Re: Christmas Greetings

Of course SC is right about the Sanctus. It only shows (a) how easily well-sung music can be a siren voice, (b) how watching a televised Mass from the comfort of an armchair at home is a wholly different situation to being a worshipper actually present at a liturgical event. Did I feel challenged to...
by John Ainslie
Mon Dec 29, 2014 5:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Christmas Greetings
Replies: 12
Views: 8943

Re: Christmas Greetings

I stumbled upon the Papal Night Mass (at 10 pm local time) on Sky Arts 2. The Ordinary in Latin Cum Jubilo - a refreshing change from De Angelis - and led by a choir who despite rather than because of their furiously arm-waving conductor sang the best Gregorian chant I have ever heard from St Peter'...
by John Ainslie
Tue Dec 23, 2014 5:06 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Responses to the Prayer of the Faithful
Replies: 11
Views: 13592

Re: Responses to the Prayer of the Faithful

I fully agree with Southern Comfort. It is common practice at my church to sing the response at the main sung Masses, varying the text by season. The cantor thus determines the length of the pause. S/he sings the first half of a response, the people completing it. The effect of a pause plus sung res...