Let's Sing with the Pope
  • tomjaw
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    Have just seen this, https://www.youtube.com/@PontificioIstitutoMusicaSacra

    Also on Instagram...
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    we are so back
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  • a_f_hawkins
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    we are so back

    1/ I like words to mean what they traditionally mean as otherwise they are no use for communication
    2/ This phrase, I read, came into prominence at the fall of Trump 1. Is that what you now wish to evoke?
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  • MatthewRoth
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    It’s just a meme. You can’t make too much of that.
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    I was evoking how back we are. Unprecedented levels of being back.
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  • davido
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    No one else has even been back like this. It’s beautiful how back we are
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  • chonakchonak
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    Fr. Mehlhart, the instructor in the videos, is the rector of the Institute. He was appointed a couple of years ago and was previously a director of music in Munich.
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  • SponsaChristi
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    No one else has even been back like this. It’s beautiful how back we are


    While I’m sure it was a mere coincidence that our organist/MD’s postlude last Sunday was The Strife is Over, I felt it in a way I’ve never felt it before.
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  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    The Earth is healing.
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  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    I am in agreement with Mr Hawkins about changes of word meanings (and other grammatical sins). However, they began with and preceded our celebrated Shakespeare. Shakespeare's sins and inventions have been hallowed by Father Time, and those of our time have not. Had they, we would still be speaking the language of the Bard (not a bad idea!), and reading him without foot notes, and loving Old Church English! (Not that Shakespeare's and the BCP's Englishes are the same.)

    Not so long ago 'neat' was used to signify most anything that was thought to be done nicely. When said to me my response was something on the order of 'oh! you mean 'tidy'. This usually got a friendly chuckle from my interlocutor. Current abominations include the ubiquitous 'have a nice one' and 'not a problem', Whenever the second of these is spoken to me (it is so tiring) I am tempted to say 'oh drat, I was hoping it would be'.

    Words seem permanently to be given to such mutations. Grammar is another. I have a grave dislike of split infinitives. They are often ugly. Putting the adverb before the infinitive, or after the word following it makes for a far more elegant construction. Even some teachers and professors have railed against unsplit infinitives. I took home from this that these teachers were the 'grown up' incarnations of those who as students had hated grammar 'rules' and were glad now to have the power to get rid of them. Then there is the rebellion against the Oxford comma. One finds it in a rare usage now and then, and rejoices at it, and of its author takes especially due note.

    Another sad development is the missing 'ue' from words, mostly of French origin, such as 'catalogue', monologue, etc. I'll not surrender these letters to those teachers who, as students themselves, didn't like them and now have the power to deform young minds.
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  • francis
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    Rad man! I can totally scoop this cool space! Dig this cloud hummer!
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    high key no cap. fr fr
  • eduardopinzon00eduardopinzon00
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    This is a really cool initiative! There are a lot of comments in Portuguese from people here in Brazil on the videos. My choir wants to do something similar in Portuguese with the melodies from the missal.
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