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by John Ainslie
Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:17 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Adoremus in aeternum
Replies: 9
Views: 7698

Re: Adoremus in aeternum

However traditional 'Adoremus in aeternum' is - I see that Allegri wrote a setting of it - the words are not good theology. We will not be adoring the Blessed Sacrament for all eternity, nor should we wish to. When we are past this earth, we are past sacraments. "We are God's children now; what...
by John Ainslie
Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:37 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Traditional or Contemporary?
Replies: 98
Views: 56299

Re: Traditional or Contemporary?

Gradual Hymn? Explain, please. A hymn between the New Testament reading and the Gospel. Interestingly the 1549 Prayer Book and the 1905 English Hymnal both contain the propers for each Sunday which includes the Gradual, translated into English which were chanted at some high very high Anglican chur...
by John Ainslie
Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:10 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Traditional or Contemporary?
Replies: 98
Views: 56299

Re: Traditional or Contemporary?

Gradual Hymn? Explain, please.
by John Ainslie
Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Prayers for Anne Holt
Replies: 2
Views: 3744

Re: Prayers for Anne Holt

I have just spoken to Anne on the phone. It was only a TIA (transient ischaemic attack). She was discharged from hospital after 36 hours and is now at home and active again. She is very grateful for the prayers of her many friends.
by John Ainslie
Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Prayers for Anne Holt
Replies: 2
Views: 3744

Prayers for Anne Holt

Anne Holt, secretary of the Society from 1988 to 1992, suffered a stroke earlier this week. Please keep her in your prayers.
by John Ainslie
Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:09 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Out with the Inwood, and in with the oldwood
Replies: 10
Views: 8210

Re: Out with the Inwood, and in with the oldwood

What happens is that the people who have moved to England are not necessarily the ones who have much knowledge of or interest in their own Church music. I recall when the Westminster Music Committee was running a music day some years ago in a parish in central London. I discovered that the local ch...
by John Ainslie
Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:47 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Realising Bishop Alan's hope
Replies: 53
Views: 39082

Re: Realising Bishop Alan's hope

Whenever the Entrance or Communion Antiphon is a psalm verse, you will find that this is taken direct from the Revised Grail Psalter, so not copyright ICEL but administered by GIA. Be careful here. Entrance and Communion verses are often not direct quotations of psalm or other scriptural verses, bu...
by John Ainslie
Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:20 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Realising Bishop Alan's hope
Replies: 53
Views: 39082

Re: Realising Bishop Alan's hope

This is partly due to missal publishers including Entrance and Communion Antiphons without making it clear that these are not obligatory texts for singing... People like singing familiar things and different entrance, offertory, communion and recessional processionals each Sunday would probably hav...
by John Ainslie
Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:41 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Realising Bishop Alan's hope
Replies: 53
Views: 39082

Re: Realising Bishop Alan's hope

Note in particular how with Mass Ordinary settings ICEL is prohibited from granting copyright permissions if the setting has not been 'approved' by the Bishops Conference music panel. My presumption (I hope flawed) is that this system is being steadily expanded to encompass more texts, including Pr...
by John Ainslie
Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:57 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Realising Bishop Alan's hope
Replies: 53
Views: 39082

Re: Realising Bishop Alan's hope

The Offertory Procession texts (at first viewing) seem to present something of a challenge. I don't think you should feel under any compulsion to use all of a given text from the Missal or Graduale Romanum. In composing some trial chant settings, I discovered that, in many cases, the first phrase o...
by John Ainslie
Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:00 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration ???
Replies: 8
Views: 8925

Re: Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration ???

We normally have a Holy Hour at 5.15 pm on the first Sunday of the month - we have an Evening Mass at 6.30 pm for which many of the regular Holy Hour attendees stay. So we decided to forget about synchronicity and keep to our 5.15 time. Our normal 20 congregation swelled to 40 or so. We used the two...
by John Ainslie
Sat Apr 06, 2013 5:42 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Pope Francis' installation in his cathedral
Replies: 3
Views: 3796

Pope Francis' installation in his cathedral

Pope Francis is being installed in his cathedral church of St John Lateran this (Low) Sunday. Here is the liturgy booklet: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/libretti/2013/20130407-libretto-cathedra-romana.pdf . As you will see, it is all in Italian apart from the music, which is mostly cha...
by John Ainslie
Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:14 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Tenebrae
Replies: 16
Views: 13133

Re: Tenebrae

Note how this tone has two reciting notes, the second a fifth above the first. Do I misunderstand? - do you mean singing in parallel 5ths, John? - how is that shown in the notation? Q No I don't! But if the reverberation of the building has 'taken on' the lower pitch, the sudden leap to the higher ...
by John Ainslie
Fri Apr 05, 2013 9:40 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Tenebrae
Replies: 16
Views: 13133

Re: Tenebrae

I remember Tenebrae at Buckfast Abbey in the early 1950s - and very beautiful it was. The account in Wikipedia is accurate: the monks had great fun making the strepitus with their books on the wood of the choir stalls. As a variant to the chant tones given in the Ordo Hebdomadae Sanctae , there was ...