Installation of the Most Rev. Gregory Parkes as Fifth Bishop of St. Petersburg
  • Caleferink
    Posts: 434
    As if there's not enough going on this time of the year...on January 4, Bishop Gregory Parkes will be installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, replacing the now-bishop-emeritus Robert Lynch. I just got the music for it, and overall I think it's a good sign of things to come:

    (NB: Since we'll still be in the Christmas season, and since this came together rather quickly, there's quite a bit of Christmas music in here...not that I'm complaining about it!)

    Prelude/Procession of Clergy: "I Was Glad" (Parry)
    Entrance: "O God beyond All Praising" (arr. Proulx)
    Installation of the New Bishop: "Festival Alleluia" refrain (Chepponis)
    Greeting of Representatives: "Do Not Be Afraid" (Stopford)
    Gloria: "Christmas Gloria" (Cooney)
    Responsorial Psalm: Salmo 97/Psalm 98: Los confines de la tierra/All the Ends of the Earth (B. Hurd)
    Alleluia: "Christmas Alleluia" (Berke)
    Universal Prayer response: "Exaudire digneris / Te rogamus audi nos" from Litany of the Saints
    Offertory: "Non nobis Domine" (Doyle - +Parkes' Episcopal Motto is "Nomen tuo da gloria")
    Sanctus, Mysterium, Amen: Community Mass (Proulx)
    Pater Noster: RM Chant (no more Warner!!!!!)
    Agnus Dei: Mass XVI with Wm. Byrd polyphony
    Communion: "The Word of God became Flesh" (Gouin), "Eres Tú, Jesús" (Rubi), & "In the Bleak Midwinter" (Darke)
    Recessional: "Joy to the World" (arr. Jenkins)
    Postlude: "Hallelujah" from Messiah (Handel)
    Thanked by 4chonak KyleM18 Casavant Organist moderntrad
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Caleferink,

    Your sign of things to come..... what does it say, exactly?

    a) polyglot liturgies will be the order of the day
    b) beautiful music will book-end the liturgies, but what comes in the middle is a mixed bag.
    c) my predecessor's evil choices will no longer be tolerated.
    d) Your bishop is from Finland!
    e) Your bishop has distinct Anglican leanings?
  • ronkrisman
    Posts: 1,394
    +Parkes' Episcopal Motto is "Nomen tuo da gloria")

    Had I not checked, I may have wrongly concluded that the good bishop does not know his Latin declensions. But, alas, it is Caleferink who has it wrong, not the bishop, whose motto actually is: NOMINI TUO DA GLORIAM
    Thanked by 1JL
  • MarkS
    Posts: 282
    I think it's a good sign of things to come:


    I take it to simply mean 'better music than previously.' Yes?
  • francis
    Posts: 10,826
    I don't see anything promising in the repertoire IMHO.
  • Caleferink
    Posts: 434
    @ronkrisman Good catch of my typo...thank you Father!
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,415
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,315
    It is little different than chrism Masses with Bishop Lynch reported upon here. I agree with CGZ.
  • Caleferink
    Posts: 434
    I agree that it doesn't look much different from the Chrism Masses and Ordinations with Bishop Lynch, but I have a feeling this is a situation of "too many cooks in the kitchen" (i.e. the Diocesan Worship commission). The cathedral music director has attempted to make great strides in what he can do, and in some cases has been successful, but so many other times he has been overruled or been forced to moderate his choices by +Lynch's crew. +Parkes is perhaps going to have to work incrementally at this, given +Lynch was in place for over 20 years and was beloved by much of the clergy (and the secular media).
    Thanked by 1moderntrad
  • moderntradmoderntrad
    Posts: 50
    I know it's easy to look at the list and think, "...and?..." but this is a marked improvement over what we have been experiencing in this vale of tears. +Parkes builds churches that actually look like churches (which cannot be said of the current Ordinary). He has actually attended a TLM (+Lynch treats the trads like lepers...). He is doctrinaly sound (lol - I won't even). He is financially sound (something that absolutely, cannot be said of the Bishop Emeritus). We, here in this vale of tears, are thankful for his appointment, and do view this installation as a sign of [good] things to come.
    Thanked by 2KyleM18 Caleferink
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    The least beautiful and truly weakest items listed above remain the Proulx EA's.
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