Society of Saint Gregory

Biretta?

I'm pretty certain Alan is right. In its early edition (published after Clement's death) it is said to be based upon a motet by Andreas de Silva (c1478-1530), who is thought to have been either Spanish or Portuguese. My bet would be that it is taken from 'Intonuit de Celo Dominus' ('the Lord ...

Bishop Alan Hopes, the fourth Bishop of East Anglia, has retired, and Pope Francis has appointed the Canon Peter Collins, a priest of the Archdiocese of Cardiff, as his successor. Bishop Alan has been the Chair of the Liturgy Committee of the Department for Life & Worship for many years, predating ...

Good point. The Bishops issued a press release on 9th May - but I didn't notice much about it in the media. We have been working on email and personal contact systems over the last 2 years and have activated them. Then there's our schools, who in my neck of the woods have disseminated the ...

Thanks SC. I had heard of Cardinal Heard, but I thought that he was a Scotsman - I recollect news headlines around the time of his death claiming him for Scotland! I see, however, that he was ordained in England and served in an English diocese before being moved to the Curia.

After todays Regina Caeli Pope Francis announced the creation of new Cardinals (to be created at a Consistory in August). As expected, Archbishop Arthur Roche was included in the list. I could be wrong, but I think that will be the first time there have been two voting English Cardinals since 1914 ...

God's own language Nick!

The Bishops of England & Wales have had prayers and a chant prepared for Masses on 5th June (Pentecost) for Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee, all available in pdf and tiff:

http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calenda ... n-70.shtml

At their Spring Plenary Conference in Cardiff this week the Bishops of England & Wales agreed that the 'Sunday obligation' should be restored on and from Pentecost this year (5th June).

Archbishop Arthur Roche has confirmed that a Vatican Document on liturgical formation is on the way:

https://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2022/05/13/

It's taking it's time...but it's really happening!

I have to say that no-one has ever expected me to forego Communion - I suspect it's simply that on occasions it gets forgotten or something like what happened to SC happens. Many clergy have made efforts to ensure that I can go. My all time winner was when I was playing an 'away gig' and I jumped in ...

I agree with SC - choirs descending stairs can be a noisy distraction, but at our place sound doesn't travel much from the spiral staircase, but we will be keeping an eye on it. Continuing the 'organist and Communion' reminiscing, on more than one occasion another organist has kindly swapped places ...

Not strictly a matter of liturgy (yet!), but interesting to note that Bishop Mark O'Toole (Plymouth) has been appointed Archbishop of Cardiff (succeeding Archbishop Stack) and, at the same time, Bishop of Menevia (currently vacant) thus uniting the two dioceses " in persona Episcopi ". So they ...

It's particularly difficult where, as at our church, the organ and cantors are on a 'West' gallery with a long spiral staircase. In the end, having tried all the options discussed here, we decided to continue the Communion Chant until we are as far advanced as possible then head down to receive Holy ...

On Saturday the new constitution for the Curia was promulgated. It comes into force in June and is being formally announced at a Vatican Press Conference this morning. It is currently only available in Italian, but here is an article in English, which gives us a bit of a flavour of the contents of ...