Society of Saint Gregory

No wonder our congregations drift away when they feel unwelcome, and unwanted. Explanations from priests are a must when there are a number of non-RC visitors at Mass, weddings or funerals, or even when they is a change from the routine liturgy (of course, I know liturgy should never be routine, but ...

I like the idea of no hymns, or perhaps just one, as many youngsters don't seem to learn hymns or suitanble songs at school any more. The same definitely goes for funersals where families only want to get it over with and have no idea when to sit, stand, or respond. We had a wedding last year, he's ...

Am I alone in noticing a rise in wedding tourism, fuelled both by second homes and the tendency to have reception venues away from home parishes? And do others find it irritating that parents come to a church and dictate what the service should be - not just the flowers and the music - but also ...

Thanks, Nick; however, I can see no exclusion listed for funerals on the paperwork online or the licence itself.
The diocesan leaflet with a Calamus number on it was a priest's funeral.
I'll probably cancel at renewal in November, especially if the cost is rising so much

We don't produce service sheets, successive PPs have been against them. We occasionally have diocesan services, which are covered by the diocese's license. One of the reasons I took one out was to cover funerals, because undertakers told me they didn't have a license themselves, but expected the ...

alan29 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:58 pm You have to wonder about one event hymns.
Was there nothing suitable among the thousands out there?

A one-hit wonder if ever there was.

As stipends go £6k sounds pretty good, considering the workload. Most of us get nowt, except for funerals/weddings.

In my church, when I'm on the west gallery organ with the choir around me, we start singing a hymn during the minsters' communion, as per GIRM, and continue until the minister comes upstairs with Communion for ourselves. Once we begin to recieve I"ll finish the hymn, so I can also partake, and then ...

Sorry, did you just insult 90% of the organists in the country who struggle through and provide faithfully some degree of music, week in week out, in their parish, with no stipend just the fees for funerals and weddings? Did you enquire properly why the organist couldn't play Mozart, etc - heavy ...

Thank you Southern Comfort, I was recalling how we were instructed in preparation for the new translation 2011, using Celebrating the Mass. Our PP at the time took great trouble to explain the changes, which led to an interesting meeting with a number of attendees rattling off the Latin as learnt as ...

I thought, maybe wrongly, that Communion under both kinds and the Sign of Peace were part of the Mass, and should be offered, even if not everyone partakes.

Not just in France. I was at a West London parish two weeks ago, still singing the Salazar Gloria with gusto.

There was a report on a Catholic website a couple of years back, that in Rome Corpus Christi is celebrated twice. The Vatican celebrates on the Thursday with the traditional procession along the Via Merulana from St John's to St Mary Major, adding to the cutomary traffic chaos no doubt. The city and ...

Thanks for the link to the Liturgy Office. This now throws up ANOTHER 'new feast - OLJC,the eternal high priest. Why are we expected to bring in new feasts almost without warning? On a positive note; this morning's Ascension Mass was very well attended, as if it had never been transfered. Let's hope ...

This has passed me by - is it a recent addition? Our Middlesbrough Ordo doesn't mention it.