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- 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: ...
- 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...
- 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!
- 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...
- 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?
- 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...
- 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.'...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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!
- 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...
- 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...