Society of Saint Gregory

Sorry a senior moment. I wonder if it is because in scripture bread is seen as an essential for life - representing all food, but wine is often seen as associated with drunkenness or celebration, the one undesirable, the other not essential for life. The liturgy and the bible both refer to the bread...

Perhaps "Bread" and "Wine" are used in the Liturgy to avoid unfortunate cannibalistic imagery?
Or is that not the point you are making?
Alan

Gosh, I must be naive. I have always thought that the placing of this text at that point was a stroke of genius, not because it blamed the Jews or anyone else, but because it puts us all in the frame. I always assumed that the Israelites represented us all as recipients of God's goodness. Not one mo...

To go back even pre Trent, as my Jewish grandad used to say, "enough already."
Alan

Vile stuff. Why is it so personalised? Having a discussion is one thing, but that stuff is totally revolting. I take heart that while they bang on about "Catholicism" and styles of performance, they hardly ever mention Christianity or prayer or worship.
Alan

I think in the end someone in your parish has to make a decision about books, copyright, the morality of photocopying etc. If they will not spend on books, then the only option is to have a diet of public-domain hymns, and mass settings that can be learned by heart. There IS always one other option,...

Musicus, thanks for clarifying my meaning - you got it exactly right. "It puzzles (and frustrates) me why folk are so opposed to anything different in church. Do these people never try a new recipe, never watch a new TV programme, never go somewhere different on holiday" I BET they read th...

Reginald I agree with you. (Hang on, I must have a lie down in a darkened room!) My memory of the liturgical changes around the Entrance, "Offertory" and Communion chants is that the antiphons in the missal would once again become just that - antiphons that were a refrain for all to sing b...

....... would it be the end of the world if we either used the Graduale Romanum, or the Graduale Simplex or better yet (in terms of where we are now), vernacular translations of the same. Now who sets the tune for such translations wouldn't bother me at all __________________________________________...

Why is that so many of these self proclaimed traditionalists fail so miserably to sound Christian when they try so hard to sound "Catholic?" Can anyone point us in the direction of a Trad blog/site that doesn't come across as *beep* and devoid of love? That apart, the man has launched a dr...

Showing my age, I know, but what is ROFL?
Alan

Are my Methodist friends missing out by not receiving Christ, truly present in the Blessed Sacrament? Of course they are - and what kind of friend would I be if I didn't want them to experience that grace? _____________________________________________________________ Doesn't Christ supply when we la...

PPS I'm with OOPS on just joining in - if I'm there and I know the piece it's fair game! ___________________________________________________________ When I was at university I was in the chapel choir - choral evensong etc. We used to drop in on St Georges Windsor Castle for evensnog if were in town ...

I say, steady on old thing.
Alan

Do you remember when there were no women allowed to do the readings? ____________________________________________________________ Women????? I remember the Medieval Rite where no laity at all were allowed to read at Mass. Can't remember if the return to the Medieval Rite will bring that back - memor...