Society of Saint Gregory

One of the very frustrating things about the new version of the psalms is that it frequently throws in extra syllables and whole lines, so chants based on regular stress patterns just don't fit any more. So the alternatives are either through composed settings - which can prove challenging for ...

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When you have it all neatly tied up and covid comes along in Holy Week and you lose a psalmist!

I thought "they" were aiming for Pentecost. Do you mean Penticost this year or next? The last info that I had was Advent this year. The Lectionary is supposed to be used from Advent ...... but it was supposed to be made available to composers at Pentecost so they could start getting settings of the ...

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I thought "they" were aiming for Pentecost.

The very difficult issue we suffer from is that readers are very reluctant to practice, so when everyone else - cleaners, sacristan. servers, flowers and musicians are at the top of their game ..... readers are often ill-prepared and stumble and mispronounce (I am still recovering from a Good ...

We tend to keep things much the same from year to year as much of the sung stuff is specific to those liturgies. Our PP has been seriously ill and may not be back for HW, so that adds an extra level of possible hiccups "on the night" with visiting priests. We have 4 OT readings. Luckily we have 5 ...

Re-arranging the deckchairs .......

https://www.cbcew.org.uk/new-lectionary-for-england-and-wales/?fbclid=IwAR0nmnp7nUp75n5-SlBWiPgiJu8tJ_pjTsHmNgolGZnmmdcuclIhX8i34Lc Lets hope musicians get sight of it early enough to adjust/re-write responsorial psalms. I note that, on the Lectionary Timetable from April 2023, the composers guide ...

Life is too short to get involved with that sort of nonsense.

Possibly.

What is a bitetto?

It might be based on a pre-existing motet. That was a fairly common practice.

Years ago we went to Palm Sunday Mass in Dubrovnik when it was still part of Yugoslavia. People took foliage from their own gardens to Mass for the procession ..... which I guess is what happened on that first Palm Sunday. There was a great variety of plants on show. It was quite something to see ...