Society of Saint Gregory

Hi everyone

Does anyone know if "Go ye afar" which is the Missionary hymn of the Holy Ghost Fathers is still under copyright, or is now in the public domain? I've tried emailing them, but got no reply

Our parish is reaching the stage where its copies of HON (with supplement) are starting to look both dog eared and dated. "Laudate" has previously seemed like a good replacement. Would this still be the case, or do people now favour a different "gold standard"?

Does anyone know when the Feast of The Epiphany is in Scotland (as opposed to England and Wales) in 2014?
I suspect it is 5th January, but I'm not sure

Our Parish were recently told we will be hosting the Diocesan Chrism Mass later this year. It would seem sensible to augment our choir by adding other singers from nearby. Can anyone recommend any good music? We will be bound by the Diocesan standard setting of the Mass, but a nice motet would be a ...

A small group in our Parish have started saying that we need a performing rights licence for any music played in the Church - even for the hymns played on the organ on Sundays. Can anyone shed any light on the legal position here? If there's any kind of a "grey area" they've made it clear that they ...

...so if I want to compose my own Mass settings using the new ICEL texts and (who knows?) send them to a publisher, do I need to get permission from ICEL? and are they inclined to grant it? ... and what of morning and evening prayer? Are the settings of Benedictus and Magnificat to be revised and ...

If therefore I wanted to write and publish responsorial psalms using the texts in the missal to whom should I apply in order to get permission to use these texts?

There's a little book called 'Organo Pleno' which discusses chant. The author, Gordon Reynolds I believe, describes anglican chants along these lines: "...being harmless enough in themselves, and the organist is required to play them through first just to prove this. Unfortunately words are then ...

docmattc wrote: I can honestly say I was accompanying the singing rather than having the lead it.

frequently I find myself having to replace it!

Hmm- we do use the Catholic translations of the Psalms but it seems to be the music that causes the controversy - with one person in particular. I have been threatened with a petition to the Vatican for excommunication on some astonishing charge of "musical heresy"

Nick Baty wrote:Yes, I know one about an Old Bishop of Birmingham but I'm afraid it might cause a few too many bleeps.

What would cause the bleeps - the limerick or the Bishop?

Looking at Sunday's first reading (in its entirely including all the middle bits that get will left out) I can't help wondering if its ever been used for a Maths exam: Plot a graph of water depth against distance from Temple Strong overtones of geometry here. (all that about RH sides, South Walls ...

This is an extreme example which I haven't seen repeated in 10 years but the music at that church remains destroyed all these years later and I have seen other examples "on the spectrum" and which haven't been too far behind. Choir and organist are now in other churches and are unlikely to be ...

asb wrote:What a good job that the city of Condom in Tarn et Garonne ceased to be a bishopric in the 18th century.......

That would be considered "trying it on!"

They do make rather wonderful Armagnac there though. (totally irrelevant but I thought I'd say it!)

Once again the message board has censored the slang word for cigarette. Does it think I'm using "*beep*" in a perjorative sense towards gay men? Because I don't know of anyone who'd pop out for one of those during the sermon! The News of the World would have it that the entire Catholic Church does ...