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by justMary
Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:07 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: best picks for the First Sunday Advent
Replies: 49
Views: 25678

Re: best picks for the First Sunday Advent

Delighted to hear others with the "our choir is the congregation" approach. We have that plus about six musicians (either solo or small groups), so it's never the same leader twice in a row. People sing - and this is in Ireland - because they have to. For 1-Advent, Year B, we have: Hymns: ...
by justMary
Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:43 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Fit for purpose
Replies: 19
Views: 13812

Re: Fit for purpose

No. The verbal contortions in many of the priests' text make it almost impossible to follow them, much less listen and pray with them. "Through my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault" - sorry, I just don't believe that I'm that flawed. If that makes me sound arrogant, then so be it. Bu...
by justMary
Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:05 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Help sought
Replies: 4
Views: 4537

Re: Help sought

Becky wrote:We used the top one from here: http://www.romanmissal.org.uk/Home/Music/Singing/Missal-Chants


Thank you - delighted not to have to do further "surgery" to fix American spelling differences!
by justMary
Wed Jul 09, 2014 1:50 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Tourism
Replies: 220
Views: 477951

Re: Liturgical Tourism

Several years ago our family was holidaying in County Kerry, Ireland. The music for the Mass was being provided by a small group of young people (~16-22). During the Communion Procession they played some reflective music which, at first, I thought was lovely. Then I recognised the music; it was the...
by justMary
Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:49 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liturgical Tourism
Replies: 220
Views: 477951

Re: Liturgical Tourism

IncenseTom wrote:Entrance - In the quiet of the evening


Is that the same one covered (composed???) by Kermit the Frog? Or is there another one which Google isn't showing me?
by justMary
Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:00 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Gelineau - The Lord is my Shepherd - guitar chords?
Replies: 12
Views: 10535

Re: Gelineau - The Lord is my Shepherd - guitar chords?

"My shepherd is the Lord" is exactly the same as in my copy of CHE - but no chords. I think there is one hymnal ("Hymns Old and New"??) that does have quite a few Gelineau Psalms but no idea whether it has chords or whether there is a sufficient number of Gelineau Psalms that ar...
by justMary
Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Palm Sunday for guitars and flute
Replies: 25
Views: 17266

Re: Palm Sunday for guitars and flute

I often think it would be good if church singers also sang in other situations and genres. My other genre is traditional folk song and I know there are some songs guaranteed to bring in a roomful of people to raise the roof in unaccompanied spontaneous harmony. A bit ironic that it is 'a cappella.'...
by justMary
Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:18 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Teaching New Music.....
Replies: 7
Views: 5679

Re: Teaching New Music.....

You have no choir (just like us!) - but is there any chance that you could interest a smaller group of people in meeting occasionally to learn the new pieces (hymns, Mass parts etc) for the next week weeks? So even though the majority would be hearing 'em 'cold, there would be some confident voices ...
by justMary
Sun Feb 16, 2014 1:30 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Replies: 9
Views: 6997

Re: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

Labour economics is a very simple discipline: if everyone who is qualified can get more money elsewhere, then they will do so and this job will not be filled at this rate. If not, then someone will get the job. If someone who is clever gets the job, then they will probably push to improve the condit...
by justMary
Sun Jul 28, 2013 12:42 am
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

t if we have a multicultural society with many people for whom English is only a second language then priests should be enjoined to acquaint people with key parts of the Mass and its liturgical connotations in Latin. I know this thread is several months old, but I'm only just catching it now. And f...
by justMary
Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:54 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Guide for Accompanying Mass
Replies: 37
Views: 18257

Re: Guide for Accompanying Mass

I'm not sure that choosing hymns by committee is a brilliant idea, given the entrenched differing views that there are. I notice that JustMary doesn't mention Mass settings, psalms and Gospel Acclamations. Are these not sung - or are they sung unnaccompanied e.g. Missal Chants? Indeed part of the p...
by justMary
Tue Jan 01, 2013 10:40 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Guide for Accompanying Mass
Replies: 37
Views: 18257

Re: Guide for Accompanying Mass

Please feel free to circulate with attribution - on the last page there is now a "copyleft" notice to that effect and a note of thanks to contributors on this forum! FrGareth, do you plan on adding a copyleft notice to your equally-helpful "Celebrant’s Guides: Mass Planning a Mass: a...
by justMary
Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:15 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: 4 o'clock Vigil service?
Replies: 22
Views: 10947

Re: 4 o'clock Vigil service?

Nick Baty wrote:Wouldn't closing the doors be something of a health and safety issue?


Depending on your neighbourhood, and just what particular distant echos the suddenly-devout remember, it may be considerably safer than leaving them open!
by justMary
Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:03 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Carols at Midnight Mass
Replies: 48
Views: 28178

Re: Carols at Midnight Mass

Just reading this now, a little later than most It wasn't my choice, but we ended our vigil Mass (very few midnights here in the Irish republic) with ... wait for it ... Silent Night. We only had a particularly weak keyboard player, so had to give her a lot of freedom re what to do, and she says tha...
by justMary
Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:31 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Edinburgh - bookshops for 2nd hand hymnals?
Replies: 2
Views: 2071

Edinburgh - bookshops for 2nd hand hymnals?

Just wondering if anyone knows of 2nd-hand bookshops in Edinburgh where I might pick up hymn-books? I'll be visiting the Haymarket area for a few days, but with a lot of freedom to explore the city. Not looking for antiques, more folky-kind of things (eg 20th Cenury Folk-hymnal vols 2 & 3 are ab...