Society of Saint Gregory

Yes, Thomas, these are all good valid ideas for further involving young people. But my beef lies with the changing philosophy which some younger musicians are bringing into the liturgy. More than a century of teaching and practice about the role of the assembly is being swept aside. Without that phi...

Does anyone remember the glory days of Liverpool, Clifton and Birmingham when great Gloria settings which integrated (cantor,) choir and congregation were the norm? Yes, many of the posters on here will remember those days when the song of the people was the first musical consideration, as decreed ...

VML wrote:they could go on to download podcasts of appropriate Thoughts for the Day to use for homilies..

Now stop it! They'll be suggesting they use electric lights next!

There's a church up here which has such bells and they sound absolutely superb.
I can put you in touch if you like.

Is there a complete music list anywhere?
I'ts not on the published music list on the cathedral's website.
The blog only tells us what the choir will be singing.
What about the assembly bits? That's what I'd be most interested in.

On which subject – I've always wondered why, at Lourdes, most nationalities sing a translation of the Lourdes hymn while the English sing a totally different hymn to the same tune. Anyone know why?

I suspect it could be because of translation issues, but I do find this terribly clunky. Is it just me?

Anyone on this thread, who likes singing the hymn, willing to answer that? Well I love singing the hymn – and many more of its ilk – but usually while driving down the M6 or across the Pennines on the M62 rather than in church. But your question raises so many more: What is I watch the sunrise all ...

Couldn't we just ask Groundforce to add decking and a water feature?

RobH wrote:You may be interested to know that they sang "Bring flowers of the rarest" at Walsingham and crowned Our Lady on 1st May as is the tradition.

But not on May 3rd as was the case in the parish at the top of this thread.

May Queen, perhaps?
Christianisation of fertility symbol.
I do hope so – then we can have liturgical morris dancing!

Gwyn wrote:Absolutleigh!

Is that based on Abbot's Leigh?
Sorry – I'll get me coat.

I'd imagine that such devotion, where it occurs, would be at the end of mass and after the Dismissal. That's certainly the case with us. With all the Sundays of May, this year, falling in Eastertide, on Ascension Day and Pentecost, surely these feasts take precedence. We'll continue to sing Allelui...

I remember a local organist who insisted on Hail Glorious St Patrick when the 17 March fell on one of the Sundays of Lent. "It would have been St Patrick's Day," he argued. "Yes, but it isn't," I replied. Look at the original post; this topic is more than its title...Carry on! So...