Society of Saint Gregory

Response to the psalm yesterday at a friend's (CofE) church appeared as:

Mr God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

It's a Viscount Regent 247 (IIP/47). Only internal speakers, so your knees get deafened but you can't really judge how much noise you're making further up the church. The recommended volume settings displayed on the console seemed to produce vigorous singing. I rather enjoyed it. I'd taken music to ...

Mass for the Feast of the Assumption in the unique surroundings of the Villa Palazzola . As they don't have the Laudate supplement with the new translations in it, we took - within sight, if not earshot, of the CDW - a bit of licence. :twisted:

Organ Sonata No. 2 Mendelssohn
Entrance: Hail Queen ...

I did offer them the opportunity...

Thanks VML and organist. Big decision to make but once made it was definitely the right one.

Well, after 8½ years the time has come for me to stand down from the Halesowen O+C job which will thus be vacant after Easter. Fr Bruce Dutson on 0121 602 1972 would be delighted to hear of or from anybody who might be interested in taking over. Small choir - now around a dozen, rehearsing weekly ...

I fear he means that the solution to disagreements about the rules of translation is simply not to have any translations.

I think you've just argued that the pipe organ is both an historic relic, and a future ideal, but somehow not the best tool for the job today?

Requiem Mass - missal tone (no Gloria). O God Our Help, I Vow To Thee My Country, etc. Anthem was So they gave their bodies to the Commonwealth - I recommend this, a Peter Aston setting of the Pericles Funeral Oration.

After the blessing, PP recited They shall not grow old then 2 minute silence ...

Thinking that an Immaculate Conception is something that leads to a Virgin Birth is a fairly common newspaper error...

Apologies if I went over the top. I wasn't trying to boast, just to say that (as with so much else in the Church) if the local PP wants music, and is willing and able to exercise leadership to get it, then the resources required (be they human or musical) are not huge, and they are out there ...

I suppose it's my own fault for reading it, but I'm getting a bit irritated by oops's relentless swipes at organists. I look after the Sunday music in a small to medium sized parish (1 Saturday evening and 1 Sunday morning Mass). The weekly fare is
- Congregational Mass Setting, (4 settings in ...

299. Altare maius exstruatur a pariete seiunctum, ut facile circumiri et in eo celebratio versus populum peragi possit, quod expedit ubicumque possibile sit . Altare eum autem occupet locum, ut revera centrum sit ad quod totius congregationis fidelium attentio sponte convertatur.114 De more sit ...

Very sorry to hear the news - a great labourer in our particular vineyard and one who will be much missed.

I think MaryFA and myself both noted that in churches where there is no organist or accompanying music, the congregation is more likely to sing. Which is interesting.
The word you're looking for is "meaningless". What you probably meant to say was:

in the necessarily small - and therefore ...