Liam

Organist wants all to stay for Closing Voluntary
Catholic tradition places under the 4th (Catholic enumeration) commandment obedience to lawful civil authority. Porters can guard the doors, but not lock them unless they have an override feature.

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Organist wants all to stay for Closing Voluntary
For people who might need a history lesson in the future, a lot of people died to teach it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire I can recall a former pastor of mine who, as the son of a fireman, would probably have bullwhipped any pr…

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Organist wants all to stay for Closing Voluntary
That would be illegal in the USA - a violation of local fire codes: the First Amendment is no defense to that. A pastor who did that should be corrected by his bishop (and insurer) - quickly.

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Organist wants all to stay for Closing Voluntary
People may linger for a Daquin Noël.

Comment by Liam September 2016 permalink
Organist wants all to stay for Closing Voluntary
Most Catholic PIPs in the USA would greet such an admonition with non-cooperation, shall we say. It's a function of the governance culture of the Catholic Church: the PIPs get an overt say in very little, so when faced with a new command that i…

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Breaking: SSPX to accept Personal Prelature [Correction: eventually!]
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From Breviary to Liturgy of the Hours
The Vatican website misses a lot of documents from the pre-electronic era. The Vatican has never treated it as a comprehensive public archive. And never bet on translations to a given language. Ritual books are not generally available and General In…

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From Breviary to Liturgy of the Hours
Two things you can read for free if you have not already read are the General Instruction to the Liturgy of The Hours (http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Resources/Rites/GILH.pdf), which is not merely rubrical but also contains a great deal of expositi…

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When the Church Organist Gets Bored
Superduper! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FLZPFI3jc

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Mother Teresa Canonisation Mass
http://www.cantoeprego.it/canto/png/0425.111.sei.tu.signore.il.pane.png http://www.cantoeprego.it/canto/png/0295.111.santa.chiesa.di.dio.png http://www.cantoeprego.it/canto/png/0098.111.noi.canteremo.png

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Descant collections
Adam Not quite. It's about the journey from the Nativity to Epiphany - and beyond to the Paschal Mystery (and, impliedly, the journey of our lives to Christ, an eschatological telos). It's not an Epiphany snapshot. It's no sublime m…

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Descant collections
Indeed it is and not just now. Has a somewhat higher/deeper theological content, reasonable voice leading (with no awkward leaps of a minor seventh that cause nasty congregational vocal cauliflowers, and fewer ugly swooping opportunities), and a tel…

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Descant collections
I am trying now to remember the name of the noted Anglican choral musician who held We Three Kings in high regard. (Not talking Rutter here.) I remember the fact of that because it was not something I expected. As Christmas carols go, it's bett…

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Hymn Tune: St. Thomas - descants and harmonization
Just remember, Tantum Ergo makes your hair grow - if you use it faithfully.

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How to source a rehearsal venue
It's one excellent purpose for which an old church that no longer can be sustained by a parish could be put: a choral rehearsal space (if the local musicians and angels can be persuaded to fund it).

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Eulogies...
When we buried my late mother nearly 2 years ago, the parish "bereavement team" (which included a priest) asked my father and my younger brother about our desires to do readings, prayers and offer remembrances. The funeral would be small, …

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Women Singing Tenor
And if you were fortunate to have have a woman who can sing like Ysaye Maria Barnwell, she would likely be the foundation of your bass section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ysaye_Maria_Barnwell

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Eulogies...
OCF #170 provides: " Following the prayer after communion, the priest goes to a place near the coffin. The assisting ministers carry the censer and holy water, if these are to be used. A member or a friend of the family may speak in remembran…

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Eulogies...
"We'll allow you to . . . feel your feelings," Mighty considerate of them.

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Eulogies...
I once attended a funeral of someone who was immolated alive in an awful car crash. He was young and talented, just out of college. His family had immigrated from a Caribbean nation. The large church was packed with mourners. And they *mourned*. The…

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Eulogies...
Pray for the dead and for those who survive the deceased. And remain open to noticing something that God wants you to notice during what you'd rather were not happening. The second point is turns out to be one of the most useful spiritual wi…

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The Canon, Law for weddings
Bart Pachelbel's Canon on A Siren Theme. Someone should try this. (I am no keyboardist, so I can't.)

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Hymn Text for Discussion
OK, Chip.

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The Canon, Law for weddings
Bart's task: either add two sharps to, or erase the two sharps from, the key signature. That's all.

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Hymn Text for Discussion
He was overthrown and deposed; murder is not needed for that to be true. A republic was declared in both Austria and Hungary (a kingdom was later set up in the latter, of course, but there was a gap in continuity, and the successor entity had a fict…

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Hymn Text for Discussion
In Amurkan, it will be Tchar-earls.

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Hymn Text for Discussion
Then there's American: Chip/Chuck (Frank Joe Lou Bert...)

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Hymn Text for Discussion
Well, he wasn't French or Charles but Karl (Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie) or Károly (Ferenc József Lajos Hubert György Mária). The historiographical trend in the past century has been away from automatic Anglicization of Europe…

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There will be none of that padding for your padding
Adam The French may go for that sort of thing, but ....

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John McLaughlin funeral
Bruce Oh, I totally get the recursive nature of that and this, and my critique of critique. That said, what the deceased may have appreciated is not necessarily the same as what his surviving family and loved ones would appreciate. Death and fune…

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