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- Sat Sep 02, 2017 8:50 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liturgical Tourism
- Replies: 220
- Views: 568572
Re: Liturgical Tourism
It was a large, transparent glass panel without any bezels. When there was something for the congregation to sing, the panel became opaque and the words were clearly legible. Thank you for this description - I've been wondering where technology will go next, and hadn't considered this type of idea....
- Sat May 20, 2017 9:04 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pentecost sequence.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33501
Re: Pentecost sequence.
I would be very interested in a any reasoning that brought together "mediocre choir" and "worthy of the liturgy" in the same sentence . How about "To provide music that is worthy of the liturgy, even a mediocre choir is better than no choir at all." Discuss. I'll say t...
- Sat May 20, 2017 6:46 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Maria Parkinson?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10817
Re: Maria Parkinson?
Fascinating, thank you. I guess it's safe to say "English Roman Catholic lay woman" to describe her? I wonder which of them is receiving the royalties from Kevin Mayhew Ltd. Probably its genius is that it's not specific to any Marian feast, and so appropriate for all of them: It's very wid...
- Mon May 08, 2017 5:35 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Maria Parkinson?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10817
Maria Parkinson?
A long shot but: Does anyone know any more about Maria Parkinson of "As I Kneel Before You" fame? She appears to have been a one-hit-wonder, and all that I can locate on-line is that the song was published by Kevin Mayhew, and she was born in 1956. However the song appears to have done rem...
- Wed May 03, 2017 1:03 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: International Hymn Choices
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7206
Re: International Hymn Choices
Faith of our Fathers sung to St Catherine doesn't cut the custard in the same way as the tune generally used in the UK. Ahh, but they're thinking of the Pilgrim fathers at the time. Same words but a totally cultural baggage and implied meaning. Many of the US people singing the hymn would be horrif...
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:30 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Offertory hymns
- Replies: 34
- Views: 47300
Re: Offertory hymns
Our list for when "nothing stands out from the Liturgy of the Word contents so let's play a generic offertory hymn" is even shorter than yours:
All that I am
Fill My House
In Bread We Bring You Lord
Take Our Bread
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
In Love for Me
All that I am
Fill My House
In Bread We Bring You Lord
Take Our Bread
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
In Love for Me
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:34 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: God so loved the world
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8783
Re: God so loved the world
Its a lovely thing, I agree. Are there any settings of that text for congregational use, I wonder. http://www.hymnary.org/text/god_so_loved_the_world_god_so_loved_the has a few entries for it - all have a 4-part score but all words are unison. I'd hazard a guess that the tune from any of them would...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:28 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: You can't please all the people all of the time
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21441
Re: You can't please all the people all of the time
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. Indeed - or even well more than OK, moaners usually outweigh compliments. Personally I'm in a very happy place where I get very few compla...
- Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: You can't please all the people all of the time
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21441
Re: You can't please all the people all of the time
1 exceeds expectations
50 / 100 / 300 / whatever- meets expectations
1 - does not meet exepctations
... sounds like a pretty good average to me.
50 / 100 / 300 / whatever- meets expectations
1 - does not meet exepctations
... sounds like a pretty good average to me.
- Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liturgy Meetings
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5939
Re: Liturgy Meetings
Why To start with, fellowship with your brother and sister Christians is never a bad thing. After than, provided everything is going to stay the way it is forever, then of course there's no need for meetings: everyone can keep doing exactly what they do now, nothing will change, no one needs to lea...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 6:36 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18988
Re: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram
though the same style will not appeal to everyone And more importantly the same style will not evangelise / nourish / engage everyone. As I've got older and more musically aware, I've found spiritual riches in material which sounded like pretentious caterwauling in my younger years, and I've found ...
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:35 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram
- Replies: 24
- Views: 18988
Re: Music and Church: Cult and Culture 50 years after Musicam Sacram
Priests receiving formation likely do know what good music sounds like. But they are also learning that their job is to save souls, not to teach them taste - a fuller op-piece about this here: m Also, they need to know far more than what good music sounds like: they need to learn how to achieve it: ...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Come to the Manger
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9401
Re: Come to the Manger
Hymns Old and New says it's by Gatty without mentioning Waddington, though it's the same harmony as in Laudate, which does acknowledge his arrangement, as does CFE.
Depends which edition you look at: HOAN Catholic 2009 does not mention Gatty, but does acknowledge Waddington as the arranger.
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 11:39 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Only 20 hymns
- Replies: 55
- Views: 40033
Re: Only 20 hymns
^Hail the day" is not exactly new or esoteric. Surely it was known in the parish at some time? How did it (and others) drop out of the repertoire? New-ish parish, formed approx 10 years ago. New part of the city, lots of young families, not so many older people, lots of immigrants. Some people...
- Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:22 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Only 20 hymns
- Replies: 55
- Views: 40033
Re: Only 20 hymns
No point dwelling on it - the idea of a 20 hymn repertoire is laughably ludicrous any way!! There are times I despair of this forum. While I'd like to be agreeing - I'm also aware that for some places it may be a reality. I'd hope that at least it's 20 hymns plus some settings of the Ordinary. But ...