Society of Saint Gregory

I wonder how the legislation would apply to livestreams, or videos for that matter, of church services - especially if for some reason the vast majority of people in the country were unable to attend church in person for some reason. :wink: If a radio, tape or wire-recorder is not OK, then I cannot ...

I am sufficiently comfortable as a female member of the human race not to be bothered about 'inclusive' language, except that it make for some very clumsy edits in psalms and hymns. I find replacing every use of the words 'he, him, his' with 'God, who, whose' is a pain aesthetically and vocally. It ...

Has it made a difference anywhere?

Don't have arguments. Don't make a song and dance.
Just quietly continue to include / focus on Mass parts on your weeks. Change them only infrequently, so they become very well known.
Let people notice which ones are sung best.

The number who cannot be vaccinated is indeed quite small. But the number who are not yet willing to be vaccinated, due to the lack of evidence of the long term effects of the vaccines, is larger than some would think. Scientists can say all they want about the volume of trials done. But we all know ...

I was wondering if any catholic composers / musicians in the UK are doing any online events, either regularly or as a one-off? Do you know of any?

Jo Boyce is. https://www.facebook.com/joboycemusic

I attended Easter Sunday Mass via Zoom yesterday. A single-family group (ie one bubble) provided music, and I think also controlled the camera / meeting, positioned I'm guessing 20m away from the altar. It didn't go well: the reberb, delay and likely sound quality picked up from the camera (close to ...

I'm not sure that a Picnic and Praise event is where I would expect to find traditional Catholic music!

There's a place for it, for sure, but it's something that most people grow into rather than experience from childhood.

An organist plays: 1) in the church's premises (using the church's light and heating) 2) on the church's instrument, 3) at the time of the church's choosing. 4) Officially, the music they play is chosen or at least approved by the church. The only tool which might be their own is the sheet music ...

Notwithstanding the boarding issue (what kind of parent would even think it's appropriate ... the mind boggles) - surely a cathedral-anything should be drawing from it's diocese, not the whole country? Roman Catholicism is not a nation-based church.

Nick - did you receive an announcement from Decani about this? I looked on their website, but couldn't find anything about it. I think that it is A Good Thing in the long run, although agree there is likely pain in the short term re getting catalogs loaded etc. Works by UK&I composers are used in ...

So is the town through which Jesus and his disciples travelled to leave Jerusalem (in Luke 24:13-35) pronounced Eee-may-uus so that it scans properly in Marty Haugen's "On the Journey to ... " hymn? Or is E-moss, as my current parish priest pronounces it? And who would tell the wrong one that he is ...

I played for one this morning (a Mass) when a friend/relative of the deceased played the coffin in on a tin whistle (O Danny Boy)

I am sure that they were actually playing John Bell's "Go Silent Friend" or perhaps Fullerton's "I Cannot Tell".

In Ireland at the current time, there are many people who simply will not pray together unless they are going to get Eucharist: they give no value at all to the benefits of community or community prayer - all they want is My Little Eucharist. On the other hand, I've have recently heart that at some ...

I find I dont have the stomach to tune in to anything that features clerics at the moment. So I avoided. As did the majority of people in Ireland! It may be the norm for published Masses to include all the Mass parts, but in average parishes it is certainly not the norm to use a matching set at the ...