Society of Saint Gregory

Wonderful news. It looks n absolute cracker.
Is the spec available at the site? I had a forage around but didn't come across it.
Gwyn.

Truly uplifted, I loved (almost) every second of it. My only complain is that Arundel cathedral is too far for to travel on Sunday mornings for me to be a regular punter-in-the-pew.

Christmas greeting to one and all.

There was a delightful televised Midnight Mass from Arundel Cathedral on Christmas Eve. First class singing. There was an Inwood-esque sung Gospel.

Nadolig Llawen.

Gwyn.

Terry kindly offered

You are welcome to the one we use which I put together when the revised trans. took place.

Ooo! Yes please. That would be great. I'll PM you in a mo.
Thanks Terry.

Hi Mary,
How are you fitting the newly translated "when we eat this bread..." To St Columba?
I love that tune.

Seems that it is. Here's a quote from (I think) Chant Cafe: Apart from a very few exceptions, the Entrance Chants of the Mass are drawn from the Bible, usually from the Book of Psalms. The great majority of these Introits or Entrance chants are from the Old Testament, because most of them were set i...

Hit 'em between the eyes with the GIRM Hare, it might not yield results but it's soooo satisfying being right.

Certainly, those who do, do; those who don't, don't. It's always the way.

Alan29 asked: How does that work with the congregation? What do they have in their hands? Good question Alan; An A5 sheet or a folded A4 leaflet bearing the words and tone melodies of the antiphons. Usually it would bear other useful text such as any hymns to be sung, the Responsorial, Gospel Acclam...

You're right S.C. There are loads of viable options. It's good to use the antiphons though.

We sing 'em to simple psalm tones Alan, the ones used at Belmont Abbey (Just up the road from us) are familiar hereabouts and melodic.

Good question Oops.
We'll be going for the Entrance and Communion Antiphons, there are some nice English settings available.
Here's an example:
http://www.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/13/07/30/17-01-39_0.pdf
They're very singable once you get into 'em.

And where " . . . God of power and might" came from is anybody's guess.

I quite liked " . . . not worthy to receive you . . ." though, it was equal to ". . . come under my roof" as a translation of "ut intres sub tectum meum,"

attendances are haemorrhaging as a result...

I suspect that the advent of any haemorrhaging predates a new translation.

But; Through my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault . . . is a good translation. It's the translation that we're discussing here, not how we understand - or fail to understand - the consequences of The Fall on mankind. Any suggestions as to how we can better translate "Mea culpa, mea culpa,...