tomjaw

Rest in peace PP Francis
As St John writes 1 John 4.20 "If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?"

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Happy May Day!
Also Happy feast of St Sigismund King and martyr, interestingly there is a 11th c. manuscript in Einsiedeln in Switzerland, with two hymns in honour not only Pip and Jim but also Sigismund. https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/ss-philip…

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Happy May Day!
Happy Feast of the Apostles Phillip and James.

Comment by tomjaw May 2025 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
"I find the comments of St Catherine..." It would be best to read our instructions on this from the Bible, St Catherine was referring to 1. Tim 5.19 but it would be good to read 1 Tim 5.20 as well. Gal 6.1 "Brethren, and if a man be…

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Tips for candlelit liturgy
If the candle is the right size and the cardboard new, it works. But if it is not held by the cardboard tightly it will slip. You could use an elastic band around the candle then it won't slip. Also you will need a reasonable amount of book to…

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Tips for candlelit liturgy
These are cardboard circles with a small hole in the middle, with small score lines so that a candle can be forced through and be held. https://stpauls.org.uk/box-of-200-drip-shields.html This may also be an idea, https://stpauls.org.uk/individual…

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Tips for candlelit liturgy
I found the cardboard holders can grip the candle so well that the edge of the cardboard can be slipped into a Graduale, and will hold the candle at an ideal distance. We have regularly processed and sung at Candlemas with no problems.

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Tips for candlelit liturgy
At Tenebrae, we gradually kill the electric lights, leaving the ones in the porch on. Even with those on the church is almost pitch black as we do this in the late evening. We have started to give the choir 'in choir' small candles, that …

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
It should always be remembered that charity also involves correcting errors, otherwise the sin becomes our own... Correction should always be done charitably, this is very difficult, but as the Saints show us, when we act in charity we can convert …

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
"For all his extensive and relentless talk about marginalization and accompaniment..." it is all very well criticising, but instead we should turn our thoughts to do something good. I am sure that praying for the the most marginalised so…

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Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
Those that regularly use the Analecta Hymnica, would have a different idea of what a hymn is. J. Connelly writes about the different types briefly in his book. The Angelic Hymn, the Prose Hymn and the Sequence Hymn, are all hymns but very different…

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Antiphonale Romanum
@DOAdvocate The 1960 edition here is the 1949 edition. I use it to sing Vespers and Compline every Sunday, and some other Feasts, while it is better than the Liber as it has all the texts and music. Its usability is rather flawed, my colleagues si…

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Antiphonale Romanum
@SponsaChristi I think they are for the new office, not the Divine Office.

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London Oratory Hymn Tunes (1870)
I would get in touch with the London Oratory, they should have a copy in their Library.

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Antiphonale Romanum
Please don't reprint the 1949 (updated 1960) Antiphonale Romanum, it is full of mistakes, and some of the directions are misleading. I sing from a 1949 copy when I am at home, the binding is broken so is not suitable for Liturgical use. We u…

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Why no hymns at Pope Francis' funeral?
From Hymns of the Roman Liturgy, J. Connelly. 2. Hymns And Doxologies St Augustine describes a hymn as the praise of God in song. 'Hymnus scitis quid est? Cantus est cum laude Dei. Si laudas Deum, et non cantas, non dicis hymnum. Si cantas, et …

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
St Thomas Aquinas Hymnbook?
In the present time with the importance of women in the Church, why not the Corpus Christi hymn of St Juliana Christus Noster Vere Cibus, or the older Hymn Christus, Lux indeficiens, https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/corpus-christi/ …

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Homily Length?
The mistake is to give the time in minutes, when we started sing polyphonic Credo, I timed the Mass, so I was ready to give the times of the notices, sermon and Canon, and the fractions for singing Polyphonic settings. So give it in length of the t…

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
@Jeffrey_Quick Why not use the Missal of Pope Francis, Ordinariate!

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Rest in peace PP Francis
St Mark for us will be on Tuesday... N.B. Burial Masses can be on most if not all days, it is Mass on First hearing the news that is more restricted... Although +/-Vinny has allowed Requiem Masses in the Easter Octave, https://westminstercathedr…

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Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Easter Sunday with 3 ladies, 9 men and 2 children in choir Processional Hymn: Salve festa Dies Vidi Aquam: Chant from Graduale Romanum 1924 INT: Resurrexi KYR: Missa O Quam Gloriosum, Victoria GLO: Missa O Quam Gloriosum, Victoria GRAD: Haec Dies. …

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Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Tenebrae of Holy Saturday (Anticipated on Friday evening) All sung in full from the Festa Majora, 1925 / Liber Usualis 1945. We had one sets of cantors, 5 men in choir singing the Lamentations, Lessons, Antiphons, Responsories and Psalms. This took …

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Gospels for Easter Vigil/Day Masses Written Out
One Missal in Westminster Cathedral has the Vigil and Easter Gospel set to the Solemn Ancient tone as used for the Passion, I have set these here, https://societyofstbede.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/easter-sunday-2/

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Triduum (Holy Week) 2025 Music lists
Good Friday Solemn Liturgy 11.30 am All as in the G.R. 1924 Sung Passion, Victoria setting Popule Meus, Chant Crux Fidelis, Chant verses with polyphonic (Palestrina?) Crux fidelis / Dulce lignum refrain Vexilla Regis, Chant Com. motet : Stabat Mate…

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
"solemnior" version of Jeremiah's Lamentations for Holy Week triduum?
@Geremia I think that file was posted here, I have looked through my files and added a couple more resources, but can't find any other at the moment. Just about to sing Tenebrae!

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Tenebrae Lessons : Does anyone have pdfs?
In the Festa Majora, Desclee, No. 824, 1923 ed. we have the following tones, https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m5ewukwgyoaszp09ell88/Festa-Majora.pdf?rlkey=pgzncth4pax3fv6yx1ejk9tkt&st=nffk1als&dl=0

Comment by tomjaw April 2025 permalink
Palm/Passion Sunday
@Charles_Weaver 1. It is just long enough for us, The Ad lib II is just a little too short, the Normal Asperges just right, and the Vidi too long. It does depend on the priest as some are faster than others. 2. We start with the chant alternating,…

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Palm/Passion Sunday
Palm Sunday 2024 (same as last year) Two sets of Male cantors for the Propers and one set of Lady Cantrix? for the Ordinary. Blessing of Palms (all Chant sung in full according to the G.R. 1924) Asperges mode 7 ANT. Hosanna filio David. GRAD. In Mo…

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Non-Christian Music Directors Now Approved for the Catholic Church
N.B. If you have sung or listened to the music of Hans Leo Hassler 1564? – 8 June 1612, it may be worthwhile looking up as to his denomination!

Comment by tomjaw March 2025 permalink
Singing Vespers
Booklets can be found here, https://gregorian-chant-hymns.com/publications/liturgy-of-hours.html

Comment by tomjaw February 2025 permalink

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