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by oopsorganist
Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:19 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O Holy Night
Replies: 7
Views: 5787

Re: O Holy Night

Well, that is better. It gets it out of the system.
To have it blasted at you as if it has something profound to say is less delightful.
I would vote for Peace Child (Farrell).
by oopsorganist
Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:14 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: O Holy Night
Replies: 7
Views: 5787

O Holy Night

O Holy Night...... (solo) :roll:
Why has this become traditional? Heard it 3 years in a row now.
Boy chorister - and yes, we clapped. It was a release from the tension of- will he, won't he, reach those high notes?
Anyway, what could be sung instead?
by oopsorganist
Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:52 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Clapping at the end of a carol service
Replies: 3
Views: 5049

Re: Clapping at the end of a carol service

Oh look, I'm still logged in after the last time I posted. Which is lucky. Otherwise I have to go to my emails and find the last password activation, copy and paste it and so on and so forth there does not seem to be a facility for changing new passwords to memorable passwords on the board - or I ha...
by oopsorganist
Mon Dec 04, 2017 10:19 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Procession of Bridesmaids
Replies: 8
Views: 7012

Re: Procession of Bridesmaids

This is so wrong. The more mature women will also have bought new outfits and made an effort. They too, should be allowed to process. So that is the MotB, MotG, er GreatAuntyEthel and so on and so forth. Then again, that is also unfair, and unequal. The men must be allowed to process too. The ushers...
by oopsorganist
Tue Nov 07, 2017 5:02 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Remembrance Sunday
Replies: 26
Views: 21675

Re: Remembrance Sunday

Not the ordinary one by Webb then?
by oopsorganist
Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Muzak for the Mass
Replies: 7
Views: 7078

Re: Muzak for the Mass

Oh there was a musician at this Mass! I think they were playing anyway. Maybe it was all recorded. I shall study it next time I go there. The hymns were bland too. It was Instant Whip, strawberry flavour. Using recorded music during the collection and then singing a hymn afterwards - it's all a bit ...
by oopsorganist
Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:50 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Muzak for the Mass
Replies: 7
Views: 7078

Muzak for the Mass

Oh dear. I really don't like it. If people really feel it is appropriate to play recorded music during, for example, the actual passing of the collection bag/plate, or during the Communion Procession, is there any way it which it can dignified so as not to be, Muzac for the Mass? I include light cla...
by oopsorganist
Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:27 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: I enjoyed that!
Replies: 15
Views: 13388

Re: I enjoyed that!

People usually enjoy something in which they are fully participating. So that for example, if they are not confident to try a new hymn, they feel they did not enjoy it. And those group occasions with a function in addition to the basic mass, they promote enjoyment because people came to support what...
by oopsorganist
Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:40 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: Magnum Principium
Replies: 10
Views: 10488

Re: Magnum Principium

Apart from running and problems with stable doors - what will be the consequences of this?
For instance, in music, will there be opportunities to use the best Glorias of the post Vatican 2 period? Use then in the near future I mean.
Oh, that's an odd idea.
by oopsorganist
Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:37 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: First communion music
Replies: 40
Views: 33512

Re: First communion music

There is a whole little corner of awkwardness here ..... to the background of course, of some very well executed and thoughfully chosen music of both kinds. I was thinking about the role of Extraordinary Ministers and the FHC celebrations. And that fact that while the children will receive from the ...
by oopsorganist
Sun Jul 09, 2017 11:24 am
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: First communion music
Replies: 40
Views: 33512

Re: First communion music

I thought Eucharistic Ministers could bless? Otherwise it gets awkward. Leeds is changing the structure of Preparation for FHC and Confirmation. To facilitate the parents to prepare the children. I think something like this was done in around 1989 - I do remember going to a meeting at church and bei...
by oopsorganist
Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:01 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: First communion music
Replies: 40
Views: 33512

Re: First communion music

Ho hum
Love the what to wear guide.
This is the outfit I have chosen
http://pin.it/B_gf48h

Don't know why there were no links for male fashion examplars though.
by oopsorganist
Sun Jun 25, 2017 11:02 pm
Forum: Liturgy Matters
Topic: First communion music
Replies: 40
Views: 33512

Re: First communion music

My ex parish used to do the prep and keep a note of who attended as well - at least the families came to Mass for that preparation time. I have accidentally been to two HC Masses the last two weeks. In different churches. The first was OK ish and not hi jacked too badly - just seemed a normal kind o...