Papal Visit

[musicus]

Given that it's international talk like a pirate day, are we beatifying Long John Henry Newman?

Perhaps the cantors will intone: AlleluiARRR, AlleluiARRR, AlleluiARRR…

But there is to be no ARRRVe MariARRR

[Hare]

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497 ... p100730144

I have put my 2d-worth in under another furry guise, but have not risen to the bait of an inflamatory comment....

[Peter]

Given that it's international talk like a pirate day, are we beatifying Long John Henry Newman?

Perhaps the cantors will intone: AlleluiARRR, AlleluiARRR, AlleluiARRR…

But there is to be no ARRRVe MariARRR

On the other hand, will we get "HosannARRRin excelsis"?

[MaryR]

On the other hand, will we get "HosannARRRin excelsis"?

Most definitely! And ARRRve Verum.

I have my wooden leg and my parrot polished and ready for action.

[mcb]

Pieces in eight (parts)! Pieces in... I'll get me fearnought.

[alan29]

full in the panting hAAAAAAAAArght of Rome

[Peter]

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497 ... p100730144

I have put my 2d-worth in under another furry guise, but have not risen to the bait of an inflamatory comment....

Well done, Hare, for not rising to the bait! Was the original poster suffering from a touch of the DTs?

Some friends of mine sing in CofE choirs because they like singing Tallis, Purcell, Parry etc even though they are convinced atheists. If I tried such fare at my church I'd wipe out the congregation. We surely need firstly to sing and play the music that helps our own congregations to worship and then strive to improve quality and lose the liturgical dross in a way that keeps them on board.

Yes, the music at the Papal Masses needs to be of good quality but it also needs to be something that the people attending can relate to, join in and feel part of. It should reflect the best of what's happening in our parishes as well as our cathedrals and also offer something that ordinary parishes can aspire to. After all, as we saw earlier, the Masses are not shows or gigs!

[docmattc]

I'm sure I speak for everyone in this forum in saying that our prayers are with all those many members of the Society who are involved in any way with the papal visit starting tomorrow.

[John Ainslie]

Amen to that - preferably a nice mellifluous Amen like a Dresden one.

[Southern Comfort]

Amen to that - preferably a nice mellifluous Amen like a Dresden one.

One of Byrd's would be preferable?!

[Hare]

Oh dear - our secrets are coming out!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F7497 ... p100782804

[Southern Comfort]

Don't believe everything you read on blogs! Or in the press!

Cardinal Kasper, for example, if you take his words at face value, was not comparing Britain to a Third World country. He was comparing the experience of Heathrow airport to a Third World country. (Those who fly through it might find a measure of agreement with that in some respects!...) The media decided what they wanted to hear him saying and put their own spin on it. In this context, it was interesting to hear BXVI this morning echoing Kasper's other quoted remark about "aggressive secularism".

[Southern Comfort]

Hope the MD for Cofton Park was watching Bellahouston just now. An amazing number of superfluous items included for Communion, and therefore didn't get sung. And the Pope was singing the Pater Noster rather faster than the choir in their tent. They got in sync once, in the middle, but thereafter the Pope won.

Like Bellahouston Park, where the wind blew the pages of the Gospel Book over so that the deacon could not find the page (Sally Magnusson said the long silence was down to reverence for the proclamation of the Gospel!) and spent a good 30 seconds and more finding it — he shouldn't have moved the marker... — there'll be wind at Cofton Park too.

Lots of other comments, but that'll do for now.... On the whole, a good atmosphere for the celebration.

[gwyn]

Overall I found watching Bellahouston Park truly uplifting.
Deo Gratias and well done all concerned. The musicians did us proud.

[presbyter]

where the wind blew the pages of the Gospel Book over .....

I understand from the Director of Liturgy at Cofton Park that the hefty paperclip solution is being employed.