Society of Saint Gregory

Lovely to have all the readings, but if there are multiple baptisms and receptions, perhaps confirmations too, and plenty of singing, doesn't that mean two-and-a-half hours plus? Can even the enthusiasts last that long? (It reminds me of a wonderful passage in David Madsen's novel, 'Memoirs of a Gno...

Sancte Francisce, ora pro eo.

Does anyone else get the faint impression that Nick B is not an admirer of HH?

I wasn't thinking of ignoring the First Sunday of Lent, just of maybe having a hymn or chant or something to mark what's happening in the world.

Ah, come on! Major coverage of events related to our chief pastor in the world's media (on the BBC news again as I type), generating much positive interest from outside the Church, and we just ignore it completely next Sunday....? Might we not just adjust the musical/liturgical conventions a bit now...

Is anyone planning to allude musically to the event next Sunday? (A 'Christus vincit' at the end of Mass, or something? I guess Lent makes it even more tricky.)

Here are the words for easier copying: 1. Saint in the shadows always out of sight, Joseph, just and faithful, lead us to the light. Saint of anxious caring, breadwinner and guide, still be our guardian always at our side. 2. Bright flower of Juda, girl of Galilee, Mother of our Saviour, star of the...

[list=][/list]Mgr Kevin Nichols (1929–2006), author of 'In bread we bring', 'Our Father, we have wandered' and other hymns, asked me to edit two anthologies of his poetry. Both were published by 'Sursum Corda' the imprint of St Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne, one of them posthumously. However...

Sorry, NB, for my techno-idiocy. HB

he'd be pushing for an entire revision of not just antiphons but the whole Missal! (Even in the Sacred College there is a polarity on matters liturgical - Martini/Pell) Cardinal Martini of happy memory? Antiphons and the Missal would be the least of it! If only he had been thirty years younger: per...

But there is a huge range of practice (even here in this self-selecting group). Is it down to taste?

Grumpy? No, I asked for it; I shouldn't have used the word 'rules' to start with. (Mind, being no expert, I have difficulty in figuring out what the criteria are for good practice in liturgy: still, mercifully we don't, a la Ofsted, have an OfLit - I don't think the distant CDW counts.)

Howard Baker wrote: ironically, churches ditched a ready-made selection of biblical texts in favour of largely non-biblical hymns, just as the Church was encouraging a deeper knowledge of scripture... My experience is somewhat different– churches ditched a huge selection of non-biblical hymns in fa...

Well, I wasn't meaning to be get all legalistic. I have tended to read GIRM as implying (though it doesn't precisely state) an order of preference; this is as reasonable an inference as the no-preference-implied-because-no-ordinal-numbers reading of it. After all, the GR is pretty hallowed by ancien...

Cullen is being polemical for sure, but surely his point about propers stands. It has just suited most of us over the years to ignore the liturgical rules. Hymns are easy and provide for ready participation (yet many Catholics won't sing even hymns). And why get anxious if the GR introit is not on t...