Society of Saint Gregory

What are the choices when you have a one manual pipe organ with no swell and the pedal board has been takene away to be treated for woodworm!

And Faith of our Fathers has differences between Full Music and the Melody/Congregation editions in CFE. Is it England or we all that will be free?

Sonoqui wrote:Don't know about the Sanctus but I once heard the Gloria set to Eastenders on Songs of Praise. I've heard worse - but not very often!

Time to own up. I was there. Songs of Praise from Rathbone Market in Newham. And because we were eastenders someone thought ...

Southern Comfort wrote: I have even had arguments with people in Lourdes who insisted that what they were doing was right, when it wasn't.

Do you have any particular reason for think that being in Lourdes would make a difference?

I think priest preach on Good Friday because there are some memberof the congreagtion there that they won't see any other time of the year (ditto Christmas)

Absolutely nothing.

I know this is silly time to ask this but I'm looking ahead to after Easter. One of our First Communion heard a hymn (or maybe a gloria) when visiting Liverpool that she liked. Apparently it was either 461 or 491 in the hymnbook there. I hope that someone on this board may be able to identify it (I'...

How about something based around Stations of the Cross? Start and end with something well known like When I Survey, There is a Green Hill, O Sacred Head. Reflection and prayer on each selected station (it may be best to stick to the biblical ones) Silence and then Taize chant (e.g. Jesus Remember Me...

docmattc wrote:On a different, but related, topic: What do people do for the sequence on Easter Sunday morning? I'm always at a loss and I think we've often just said it, but this fals far short of ideal.

I wrote my own with Alleluia refrain a few years back after I couldn't find anything suitable for guitars.

WE have three Masses at Christmas. 7pm Christmas Eve is specifically geared towards children. Because of the numbers arriving (by the time Mass starts they'll be standing outside the church) we have introduced 30mins of Carols/Hymns and readings (Annunciation and Visitation). Music for Mass is as fo...

Guiding has always used sung graces before meals. These are available in their song books.

After many years of suffering Light the Advent Candle and moans from our PP about it, I wrote my own Advent Candle Song a few years back. I tried to keep it simple for young children but each verse bears some relation to the readings of the day (Second Coming, John the Baptist, Rejoice, Mary plus a ...

I'm in two minds on this one. I'm very worried that we seem to want to imply that our worship is almost an optional extra. At the same time, as I am often in Lourdes during June I either get two Corpus Christis or none. i would be better though if we could now add the other Holy Days that are celebr...

As I'm a London parish I'm rethinking my plans for this Sunday to include "comforting" music. I don't know yet how many of our parishioners were caught up in today's events but I think it is appropriate to respond in some way.

A Google for "Count your blessings" "name them one by one" produced many sites including http://members.tripod.com/~Synergy_2/lyrics/cntbless.html
I hope that helps.