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- Tue Mar 28, 2023 9:52 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 117410
Re: Recorded music in church, etc
I wonder how the legislation would apply to livestreams, or videos for that matter, of church services - especially if for some reason the vast majority of people in the country were unable to attend church in person for some reason. :wink: If a radio, tape or wire-recorder is not OK, then I cannot...
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:19 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Olives or Palms?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 79105
Re: Olives or Palms?
Back in the 1980s you would often find parishes where people were encouraged to bring to church branches cut from the hedge in their garden, etc. The clergy would have the big old dusty palm fronds, but everyone else would bring their own branches, just as the crowds did on the first Palm Sunday I'm...
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 117410
Re: Recorded music in church, etc
Yes, the legislation is 65 years old. However, it's worth bearing in mind that it was drawn up in an age where the liturgy was far less participatory than it is now. Presumably the intent behind it was authenticity. No artificial aids, but real people doing real things to support the prayer life of ...
- Thu Mar 23, 2023 9:01 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Recorded music in church, etc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 117410
Recorded music in church, etc
A recent thread mentioned the use of recorded music in church. It appears that many people have overlooked church legislation on recorded music, hymn-playing machines such as Synthia, projection screens in church, etc. This legislation has never been supserseded or rescinded as far as I am aware, an...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Triduum
- Replies: 5
- Views: 127406
Re: Triduum
Just say No, and walk away.
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 54522
Re: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
Having now obtained and read a copy of the biography mentioned above, I have to say that it is probably the worst-written biography I have ever read. Being self-published, there was no editor to pull it into shape. The result is just awful.
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:04 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 54522
Dom Sebastian Wolff OSB, RIP
Dom Sebastian Wolff, a monk of Buckfast Abbey and for many years the Abbey Organist, died peacefully yesterday morning at the age of 93 after a brief illness. Born in County Galway, Ireland, of German émigré parents, his father was organist of Loughrea Cathedral, so organ playing was in his blood. H...
- Mon Dec 12, 2022 9:58 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Michael Hodgetts RIP
- Replies: 0
- Views: 96989
Michael Hodgetts RIP
A post by Paul Inwood a quarter of an hour ago on the Society's Facebook page reads as follows: Have just heard that Michael Hodgetts died this afternoon December 12. He was a stalwart of the Church Music Association before it re-merged with the Society, and I believe at one time was one of the Soci...
- Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:56 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Choral Director/National Schools Singing Programme - Arundel & Brighton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 39284
Re: Choral Director/National Schools Singing Programme - Arundel & Brighton
This is an encouraging development. I just hope that it does not suck the musical promise out of the parishes and into the cathedral. Something that supports both is what is needed. My experience of similar enterprises in the north of England was that everything initially became focused on the cath...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:16 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Mother of Mercy, Day by Day
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21849
Re: Mother of Mercy, Day by Day
This hymn appears in, among other places, Westminster Hymnal , 1912 edition, where it can be seen that Hémy's harmonization of his tune Mater Misericordiae (1864) was originally very simple (others have tarted it up considerably subsequently). Mother of mercy WH 1912.pdf It can also be seen that the...
- Tue May 31, 2022 7:52 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 58128
Re: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
Yes, born in Scotland, but received into the Church at Farm Street in London, rejected for ordination by St Andrew's and Edinburgh but accepted by Southwark. Visitors to the Venerable English College in Rome are often intrigued to see his portrait in the Cardinals' Gallery as they have never heard o...
- Mon May 30, 2022 9:27 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
- Replies: 4
- Views: 58128
Re: Archbishop Roche and other new Cardinals
The most recent time when there were two English cardinals eligible to vote was the period 1959-1973, when, firstly, Cardinals Godfrey and Heard were both alive and eligible. In fact Godfrey was appointed cardinal just too late to elect John XXIII and died not long before Paul VI was elected, but Wi...
- Sat May 28, 2022 7:02 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 279981
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
Love your precision as always, SC, but does one say that a noun "declines" or "is declined"? Just askin' Q I think both are correct. The lengthy Wikipedia entry on declensions even includes this sentence: "Whereas nouns do not distinguish between the subjective (nominative)...
- Mon May 23, 2022 8:08 am
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 279981
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
St Elizabeth in Latin is Santa Elisabetha (notice the 's' instead of the 'z'), which declines as usual. Alternative forms of the name such as Isabella (= Isabelle) can also be used. But there is no real Latin equivalent of Elizabeth when used as a Christian name , so it should remain undeclined. Wh...
- Sun May 22, 2022 1:41 pm
- Forum: Liturgy Matters
- Topic: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Replies: 14
- Views: 279981
Re: The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
St Elizabeth in Latin is Santa Elisabetha (notice the 's' instead of the 'z'), which declines as usual. Alternative forms of the name such as Isabella (= Isabelle) can also be used. But there is no real Latin equivalent of Elizabeth when used as a Christian name, so it should remain undeclined. When...