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- Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 36708
Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
I am a lawyer - and I'm certainly not licking my lips! My view is that as Catholics we should be supporting the spirit of the legislation and doing our best to protect people. That's where, I think, the Bishops are generally coming from and like you, I feel very sorry for our priests in these circum...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:08 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 36708
Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
The problem is that the Regulations (see above) do not go as far as statements from government ministers and the press seem to be implying. Our bishops have, probably rightly, but inconsistently, gone much further than the law requires. Gatherings of more than 2 people (not being in the same househo...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 36708
Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
I have just read the regulations that came into force yesterday and which replace all previous regulations and government guidelines (the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020). As I read them (i) (apart from the 'normal' permitted exceptions) a minister of religio...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 4:07 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 36708
Re: Live-streamed liturgy: what about music?
We are currently experimenting with using virtual technology to provide some 'active participation' - which will not be 'full' but may be better than nothing! Wish us luck. If we crack it, I will post details here.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: COVID-19 - Latest information from the Liturgy Office
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4766
Re: COVID-19 - Latest information from the Liturgy Office
In order for this new 'suppression' tactic to work it needs to be in place for at least 3 months. The Imperial College modelling indicates that we might then have a month or two of the previous 'management' strategy before bringing back 'suppression' for another three months, and that this sequencin...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:17 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Presentation of the Lord
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7371
Re: Presentation of the Lord
We are going through a bit of a time of change with a new Parish Priest from the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (plus an Ordinariate curate - a real bonus!) and are the 'home' of the local Ordinariate group. Our Principal Concelebrant yesterday was Mgr Keith Newton, the Ordinariate's Ordinary...
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:25 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Learning the organ
- Replies: 19
- Views: 51361
Re: Learning the organ
It is perfectly possible to start learning to play the organ 'from scratch' - ie with no prior keyboard skills. However, I think that it makes life easier if you have reached, say, Associated Board grade 4 or 5 - mainly, I suspect because it is a lot easier to practice on a piano at home (or, I gues...
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Antiphonal Singing of Latin Plainchant Mass Settings
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15572
Re: Antiphonal Singing of Latin Plainchant Mass Settings
It has always seems to me that the problem with Credo III is that when the congregation sings it through the tempo drops to a crawl and it sound like a painful dirge. I have often found that, sung antiphonally with a good choir/cantor(s) the tempo can be picked up quite effectively. The other benefi...
- Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:23 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: A rather delightful Kyrie and Agnus Dei
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9805
Re: A rather delightful Kyrie and Agnus Dei
I think they are from Messe à 2 voix by Alexandr Gretchaninov, who straddled the late 19th and first half of the 20th Century. He wrote all sorts of music, and his liturgical music was written mainly for the Russian Orthodox Church. He left Russia after the Revolution, went to France and then settle...
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:07 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipe Organs and Organists - Dying out?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 50131
Re: Pipe Organs and Organists - Dying out?
All is not entirely lost - one of our local teenagers is now working on his audition pieces for Oxbridge organ scholar applications.
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:04 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Gloria settings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 28209
Re: Gloria settings
Don't forget that in the RC Church in England & Wales only the authorised translation can be used and it can't be paraphrased! I won't comment on what I think of that translation!
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 5:50 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Liturgical Tourism
- Replies: 220
- Views: 476829
Re: Liturgical Tourism
Heraklion, Crete - Trinity Sunday. A beautifully simple and spiritual liturgy. About 75 people in a small church. A youngish, but spiritual Polish priest. Prior to Mass we had Morning Prayer, then before Mass a short introduction to the feast in Greek, English and Polish - a sign of something to com...
- Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:19 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Triduum accompaniment
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12761
Re: Triduum accompaniment
Broadly, I am with SC on this. If we are singing something that does not need an accompaniment because everyone is comfortable with singing unaccompanied, I do not use an instrument (for example, simple chant, plain or otherwise). If, without an accompaniment, a piece just won't 'work' in an accepta...
- Wed Nov 23, 2016 7:41 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Pipe Organs and Organists - Dying out?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 50131
Re: Pipe Organs and Organists - Dying out?
Let me first declare an interest - I am an organist! I also serve as a member of the Organ Advisory Panel for my Diocese. We provide help and advice to parishes looking for new organs, carrying out maintenance, repairs and restorations and advising as to whether organ are worth preserving. We advise...
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:08 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: All Saints
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4327
Re: All Saints
Definitely Tuesday 1 November - see Liturgy Office Calendar 2015/16 at http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk.