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- Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Triduum
- Replies: 5
- Views: 57019
Re: Triduum
Just say No, and walk away.
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24323
Re: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
Having now obtained and read a copy of the biography mentioned above, I have to say that it is probably the worst-written biography I have ever read. Being self-published, there was no editor to pull it into shape. The result is just awful.
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:04 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24323
Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
Dom Sebastian Wolff, a monk of Buckfast Abbey and for many years the Abbey Organist, died peacefully yesterday morning at the age of 93 after a brief illness. Born in County Galway, Ireland, of German émigré parents, his father was organist of Loughrea Cathedral, so organ playing was in his blood. H...
- Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:58 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Michael Hodgetts RIP
- Replies: 0
- Views: 44747
Michael Hodgetts RIP
A post by Paul Inwood a quarter of an hour ago on the Society's Facebook page reads as follows: Have just heard that Michael Hodgetts died this afternoon December 12. He was a stalwart of the Church Music Association before it re-merged with the Society, and I believe at one time was one of the Soci...
- Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:56 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Choral Director/National Schools Singing Programme - Arundel & Brighton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 17453
Re: Choral Director/National Schools Singing Programme - Arundel & Brighton
This is an encouraging development. I just hope that it does not suck the musical promise out of the parishes and into the cathedral. Something that supports both is what is needed. My experience of similar enterprises in the north of England was that everything initially became focused on the cath...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:16 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Mother of Mercy, Day by Day
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10807
Re: Mother of Mercy, Day by Day
This hymn appears in, among other places, Westminster Hymnal , 1912 edition, where it can be seen that Hémy's harmonization of his tune Mater Misericordiae (1864) was originally very simple (others have tarted it up considerably subsequently). Mother of mercy WH 1912.pdf It can also be seen that the...
- Tue May 31, 2022 7:52 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27715
Re: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
Yes, born in Scotland, but received into the Church at Farm Street in London, rejected for ordination by St Andrew's and Edinburgh but accepted by Southwark. Visitors to the Venerable English College in Rome are often intrigued to see his portrait in the Cardinals' Gallery as they have never heard o...
- Mon May 30, 2022 9:27 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 27715
Re: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
The most recent time when there were two English cardinals eligible to vote was the period 1959-1973, when, firstly, Cardinals Godfrey and Heard were both alive and eligible. In fact Godfrey was appointed cardinal just too late to elect John XXIII and died not long before Paul VI was elected, but Wi...
- Sat May 28, 2022 7:02 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 129503
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Love your precision as always, SC, but does one say that a noun "declines" or "is declined"? Just askin' Q I think both are correct. The lengthy Wikipedia entry on declensions even includes this sentence: "Whereas nouns do not distinguish between the subjective (nominative)...
- Mon May 23, 2022 8:08 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 129503
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
St Elizabeth in Latin is Santa Elisabetha (notice the 's' instead of the 'z'), which declines as usual. Alternative forms of the name such as Isabella (= Isabelle) can also be used. But there is no real Latin equivalent of Elizabeth when used as a Christian name , so it should remain undeclined. Wh...
- Sun May 22, 2022 1:41 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 129503
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
St Elizabeth in Latin is Santa Elisabetha (notice the 's' instead of the 'z'), which declines as usual. Alternative forms of the name such as Isabella (= Isabelle) can also be used. But there is no real Latin equivalent of Elizabeth when used as a Christian name, so it should remain undeclined. When...
- Mon May 16, 2022 8:10 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 129503
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Wonder why they've only published the chant in Latin! Because it doesn't exist in any other form. This is the chant, minus Solesmes rhythmic signs, that was sung at the end of every High Mass up to 1964, when Mass was still predominantly in Latin. It was never sung in the vernacular. It started lif...
- Thu May 12, 2022 8:07 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Changes at the top
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41063
Changes at the top
Dom Paul Gunter OSB, up to now Secretary of the Liturgy Office and well known to SSG members, has just been elected Abbot of Douai. Prayers for him as he transitions out of his parish and his national responsibilities to the task of shepherding his community.
- Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:54 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Cardiff & Menevia - Two Dioceses, one Bishop
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11501
Re: Cardiff & Menevia - Two Dioceses, one Bishop
Menevia was originally part of Cardiff, so the infant returns to its mother, in a sense. There have been rumours for a while now that Menevia was not financially viable. Perhaps not having to find its own episcopal expenses will help. The installation in Cardiff is announced for 20 June. Nothing has...
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:18 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Communion Songs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 97434
Re: Communion Songs
One of the sacrifices that organists are called upon to make to fulfil their ministerial role during the distribution of Communion is being unable to receive Communion themselves. It goes with the territory. Sometimes it arises from a lack of thoughtfulness on the part of the ministers, who overlook...