Society of Saint Gregory

Did anyone attend the Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool? What was the music like at the Masses and Services?

I certainly remember being trained in the Dialogue Mass in my Convent Grammar School about 1950 but it was not used in my own parish for another ten years or so. I do remember it in use around 1959/60 in the Marist Parish in Middlesbrough. Perhaps it was particularly popular among religious orders.

While looking up Pentecost music, I have found that some Hymn Books, i.e. Celebration, Iubilate Deo, omit the last verse of the Veni Creator while others, such as The Westminster Hymnal and Plainsong for Schools, include it. Bizarrely, Celebration Hymnal does include this verse in the standard ...

The Gelineau 'Nunc Dimittis' (At last all powerful master you give leave to your servant to go' ) is very easy. It was in the first 'Praise the Lord'
and other hymn collections.

Thank you for this. It is almost exactly as I notated the melody from memory. Any ideas about the actual names of the composers whose initials are given? That sometimes indicates that they might be members of a religious order. Another thought. I was brought up reciting the 'De profundis' in English ...

Yes, this is the one. I cannot access page 2. I also have a copy worked out from memory by myself (I put it into D major). There must be some real music in someone's cupboards.

No, that's not the one. There is another metricised one in the Leeds Catholic Hymnal which is not the one I know either.

I think I know the one you mean. We used to sing it at my Convent School. The last time I heard it was about thirty years ago at a funeral
in St. George's Church in York so perhaps it was a Middlesbrough speciality.

Forgive me for asking, but if, as Markyboy says, the children rarely come to church except with the school, why are they being allowed to make their First Holy Communions anyway? Is there not a requirement that priests should have a well-founded belief that candidates will be brought up in the faith ...

Why do they have to?
Active participation does not mean that every body must sing every thing.

Why not sing Caswall's 'Holy spirit, Lord of light' to the beautiful Plainsong of 'Veni Sancte Spiritus? It has always seemed to me that the translation was specifically crafted to be sung to that melody just as the usually given 'Christians to the Paschal Victim' translation of the Easter Sunday ...

So sad.

I agree with what has been said about Birmingham, especially about the Archbishop's singing. I thought the Mass Setting was a poor choice (did they omit the Benedictus?). I was also sorry they did not include what for me are the two markers of Catholicity at Christmas: Adeste Fideles (arr. V ...

Is this supposed to be a reasoned contribution to discussion? What have South American slums to do with anything,
especially in connection with a Cardinal from Africa?

N. B. favela not favella.

Are the two professions mutually exclusive?