You know things are good when...
  • scholistascholista
    Posts: 109
    ...you text message the priest to see if he wants a cantor for the morning daily Mass and he texts back with a request for De Angelis ordinaries, Salve Regina as an offertory and Tota Pulchra Es for a post communion reflection!
    Thanked by 5CHGiffen Ben Kathy irishtenor Ruth Lapeyre
  • Musicteacher56
    Posts: 621
    .....your children's choir can chant Ave Maria, Panis Angelicus, Ecce Panis, Adoro Te Devote and Salve Regina and then ask for more of it.
    Thanked by 5ryand scholista Kathy Ruth Lapeyre Steve Q
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    2nd graders are impatient to chant their favorite Sanctus.
    6th graders who listen to rap that makes Satan blush understand and respect that the liturgy requires a particular reverence in the music.
    You can have 6 year-olds in the choir loft who are silent (when not singing) and sit still. Once glance corrects any misbehavior.

    Pastors make all the difference.
    Thanked by 2scholista Gavin
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    Inclusion of propers leads to parishioners constantly sharing their appreciation for "that new communion thing you're doing, whatever it is"
    Thanked by 4Spriggo CHGiffen Kathy scholista
  • ryandryand
    Posts: 1,640
    A weekly bulletin article on liturgical music is being read and commented on (are you doing another one next week?)
    Thanked by 1scholista
  • David AndrewDavid Andrew
    Posts: 1,206
    Your new Pastor wears a biretta, and tells you that he wants to do the TLM at least once every quarter at a Sunday Mass.
    Thanked by 3Ben Kathy Jahaza
  • bkenney27bkenney27
    Posts: 444
    The Pastor alludes to the fact that Parishioners should attend a different parish if they want contemporary music, recognizing that we are "heading in another direction."

    The Pastor is also pastor of that "different" Parish to which he directs Parishioners that want contemporary music and comments they are working to use said contemporary music in moderation.

    Even when requesting contemporary music be incorporated for those that want it at the sunday evening Mass, the Pastor maintains drums are NOT acceptable within liturgy.
    Thanked by 3Kathy expeditus1 CHGiffen
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    Pastor turns away from you.... and then sings the Mass.
    Thanked by 7scholista expeditus1 CHGiffen Aristotle Esguerra Gavin ZacPB189 bkenney27
  • francis
    Posts: 10,824
    we all run out of things to put on the thread entitled, "you know things are bad when..."
    Thanked by 4SkirpR Jeffrey Quick CHGiffen ZacPB189
  • francis
    Posts: 10,824
    I once sang a piece of Gregorian chant in English and improvised the organ part with a bit more contemporary harmony than what you would find in the NOH, and someone came running up to after Mass and asked, 'wow, who composed that piece at the communion! it was beautiful'. I said, well, it is one of the oldest hymns of the church dating back to 300 or so. I was just using the English version today. at that point they looked at me in horror and walked away. I just smirked and looked up and said, "O God, I have just done a very bad thing!"
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen ZacPB189
  • AP23AP23
    Posts: 119
    ...You go to a church for Pentecost and you hear the organ start playing the awesome, dissonant intro of Peloquin's Lord, Send Out Your Spirit.
  • musicman923
    Posts: 239
    A pastor who supports a what use to be failing music program and letting it have new life under new leadership! So lucky I have his support as music director. We've gone back to using the pipe organ in the loft and the choir starts singing back in the loft starting in Sept!! Yahoo!!!
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen AP23
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,979
    Musicman, that IS good news!
  • jpal
    Posts: 365
    ...the seminarian at your parish for the summer is asked jokingly Sunday morning if he would like to sing with the schools for a day, says yes, knows the Missa de Angeles by heart, and picks up the SEP introit and offertory and Gregorian communio 15 minutes before Mass, singing them as if he had been practicing them all week.

    True story from two days ago...

    Sem: Fr. [Pastor], what would you like me to do for the next Mass.
    Pastor: Oh, I don't know, jumping jacks?
    Me: Sing in the schola!
    Pastor: That's a great idea.
    Sem: Well, I don't have any of the music...
    Me: No problem. Just go down to the music room and see my assistant.

    The rest is history.
    Thanked by 2SkirpR M. Jackson Osborn
  • AP23AP23
    Posts: 119
    ...You go to a church for Pentecost and you hear the organ start playing the awesome, dissonant intro of Peloquin's Lord, Send Out Your Spirit.
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,482
    you know you posted that already, yes?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,414
    When... all you have to complain about is that the choirmaster at Walsingham did the wrong tune to Brightest and Best... from The Hymnal 1940.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
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