Next Sunday, which I often refer to as Pink Sunday, allows for use of the organ for more than just singing. I still try to keep it down and don't do postludes. GIRM doesn't address events outside of mass.

Was subjected to incessant organ playing during Confessions about 5 years ago. It's not a good idea, friend; reminds the PIP of a retail store Muzak or funeral home loop. Tell your priest/employer (?) that it might be a lot more cloying than inspirational.

Although 'spirit' has acquired a much-deserved bad repute by its association with the so-called 'spirit of Vatican Two', I would suggest that in the 'spirit' of Lent what is good enough for the mass is good enough for other quasi- or para- or whatever services or gatherings throughout Lent - excepting Laetare, commonly called 'rose Sunday', or, in Anglican usage, 'Mothering Sunday'. (The appelation 'rose Sunday' arose in times past when the pope would present a golden rose to certain favoriti on Laetare.)

Charles is correct - most vesture, on Gaudete and Laetare alike, is not rose coloured (as it should be) but is a trashy looking pink or salmon - not even approaching roseate. I must say that there have been only a very few (like maybe two or three) times in my life at which I saw vestments that were actually of a marvelous shade of rose. (Down with pink - any and everywhere!)

...well maybe not..

Ha!
There's no pink in the Sainte Chapelle.
Lots of rose, though.
(And photographs are notorious for not illustrating true hue.)

Well, maybe so - if your illustrations are accurate.

Um, is that really pink?
Or is it perhaps pale magenta?
Or is it a shade of rose???

Whatever it is it's beautiful and
is definitely NOT the sick Pepto-Bismol pink of most of our so-called 'rose' vestments.

Doubtful that the needle will be felt, but nice try CharlesW :-)

Perhaps it will be a consolation to reflect that the good God made all colors, and that His roses come in all shades of that beautiful one.

The earliest named rose (gallica var. officinalis 'Versicolor' (Rosa mundi), 1500s) is striped with a similar pink to that in the Chartres window.

We return you now to your original post topic! :-)

we wont have rose, pink or salmon sunday.... it will be purple.

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Was subjected to incessant organ playing during Confessions about 5 years ago. It's not a good idea, friend; reminds the PIP of a retail store Muzak or funeral home loop. Tell your priest/employer (?) that it might be a lot more cloying than inspirational.

Sounds like you were subjected to bad and/or loud organ music. The multiple services I've played (and multiple I've attended) have always kept things below mp. typically P or even pp. Just enough to keep people from hearing confessions at the end of aisles and as mentioned above, to keep the din of talking to a minimum so penitents can pray. And yes, it essentially IS liturgical muzak. But that's precisely the point in this context.

I consider that the use of organ alone is banished during lent (of course except Laetare). So that applies to all and any offices. I admit an exception for funerals, as in my parish lots of people are not regulars, and the mass being quite lengthy (we follow the extraordinary latin rit) a few interludes avoid to see family members leave... But no music for penance ceremonies. (Sorry for my english, Im french...)

(Sorry for my English...

Vive la France.
Vive le roi,... too

...get your pick.

I'll pick them all - reigning or pretending.

If I'm not overlooking any there are (counting grand duchies and principalities) yet ten remaining reigning monarchs in Europe - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, UK, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Monaco, Lichtenstein, and Luxemburg, (not to mention Vatican City).

(If one were to add Canada, Australia, and quite a few other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations of which The Queen is head of state, their numbers would increase appreciably.)

Vive les rois (et les reines)!

Then there are those scattered across the Middle East, some places in Asia and the Pacific.

It is notable that the British committed regicide and repented of it, whilst the French committed regicide and have yet to repent - which is to say that they remain obstinately unrepentant.
(A Fifth Republic president, though, is a monarch in all but name...
for which we can thank Charles de Gaulle!)

As a french citizen, I wish France would reconcile (is this correct ?) with its past and repent and goes forward. I consider that France, assuming its past, could be a major player in installing christianity (thats what matters, at the very end). Nevertheless, I think that devil is working hard in order to ensure that my country, kingdom or republic, is a top amoral country in the world...
Then, liturgy is a modest, humble answer... at my modest, humble level of a parish choir manager...

As an American, I do wonder why some of those countries keep royal families in splendor to perform ceremonial functions.

It means there is a distinction between the ceremonial and the functional head of state; the former to be the personification of national pride and identity, and the latter to bear the brunt of criticism for the way things are. In the UK right now, Elizabeth II remains greatly loved, while Theresa May is widely reviled.

On the other hand, here in America, where the President fills both roles, about half the time, half the country is ashamed of its head of state, and so one sees people rejecting ceremonial honors given by the president because they cannot abide him as a governor. So no one can unite the people like a monarch, because half the country voted for the other guy and resents the incumbent. And every four or eight years, the person leading America is someone completely different and there is no continuity.

...took deadly aim...

Well, about a meagre 10% took deadly aim. That's the percentage of the colonial population who participated in or supported their 'revolution'. Not happy at that, they confiscated the land of those who had remained loyal and drove rest into Canada, which in addition they tried to conquer for their new-fangled republic, but the wise Canadians would have none of it. In sum, not at all 'democratic' decision making, nietherr kind, nor peace-loving.

Stimson is right in that the so-called 'glorious revolution' (there was nothing glorious about that act of perfidy) was a sad step - at least they didn't commit regicide yet again.

Story about organ during penance services:

I was playing for a school penance service; I had to step away for personal reasons, so I put on the sequencer on the organ with a track of confession-music improv that I sequenced for just such a purpose.

But, I was away too long. Later that day, when I had my choir students that afternoon, K___ declared, with some annoyance, "Well, EVERYBODY heard my confession... the music STOPPED!"

So, it serves a purpose.