Society of Saint Gregory

Hallam has a growing group of diocesan singers and instrumentalists who support the music at diocesan liturgies. Members of the Cathedral Choir and Music Group will also attend.

Sorry nazard. I meant Northern Tenor.

I suppose that depends on the extent of the limb deterioration, nazard. In any case it would, I suppose, have been difficult to wipe one's nose with one's elbow.

Perhaps I am the first poster to have had this virus. I think I probably picked it up at Greenbelt Festival where I was a Wild Goose ... hopping mad I was! That was bank holiday weekend and various docs were unable to diagnose it. It was only when the fevers worsened that I returned to my home doc (...

Whilst it is true that the 'namaste' sign of peace is particularly prevalent throughout India and elsewhere in liturgical and daily life I still see something very similar exercised between altar servers and priest at every mass after his ablutions or during incensations.

Went to Mass while on holiday in Dorset and there was a new priest in this parish who started his homily with a statement that there was no scriptural basis for the pictorial depictions of the Assumption. He then went on to list what was scripturally known about Mary and suggested that the 20th cent...

Have just returned from community Week on Iona where practices in the ecumenical Abbey have changed also. But I do wonder about their efficacy. They continue to pass a loaf of bread around from which folk tear and hold until the wine comes to them and intinction follows. It does strike me that this ...

Psalm 121 i lift my eyes to the hills/mountains is often used in the pilgrim situation

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Thanks presbyter for the reminder of ND de F Leicester Square. I recall playing the Welsh National Day service there in march 1973 where the Presider, an eccentric and now deceased David Lewis (who went on to to be Chaplain of Gatwick Airport when the Pope visited and later Carmelengo of Santa Maria...

30 years ago when I was MD at the German Catholic Church of St Boniface in Whitechapel there was a hymn number projector next to the organ which projected onto the East Wall not just the number of the hymn but also alongside the verses. This would have been particularly useful (had my German been up...

I sympathise Nick. Before my sister died she sent out a letter about Sudoko Overload Syndrome (SOS) in which she advised family to remain faithful to cryptic crosswords and not to cross over to Sudoko. I'm afraid I forgot this warning and am now seeking counselling for my addiction.

At Hallam I won't be rehearsing the choir until September but members will still meet on Sunday to keep the Sung morning prayer and 1030 mass going with appropriate music. I choose the programme of music for the holiday period but congregational repertoire is established so it really just requires f...

Earlier in this discussion there was mention of the possibility of transfer of documents between finale and sibelius. I tend to use finale because that's what I'm familiar with but recently was given sibelius by another composer whose works I occasionally process. I have a blind choir member who use...

Re I watch the sunrise I was once informed (but cannot recall the source) that this was the reflection of one who knew he was about to die, who reflected on the last time he/she might see the sun, moon etc as being temporary for him/her but concluded that God would always be present. This affirmatio...