RPBurke

Liam, that’s exactly how I have used that song, as a chant, and it works just fine.

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I’d like to echo the comments left here about musicianship. Back in the old days, we were lucky to have a competent organist and an actual trained music teacher from the order that taught at our scho…

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In Boston in the 1950s and ‘60s, we knelt for the entire low Mass except for the two gospels and the offertory. Back when communion ran while Mass was going on in the background (which is how it appe…

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Years ago, the then-director of the Paulist Center (not "pastor," as strictly speaking it's not a parish) told me that the Center served in part as a "last chance saloon" for…

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In Ted Marier's day at St. Paul's in Cambridge, in the order of service it was simply labeled "Hymn". Not opening, not processional, not entrance, not gathering, not nothin':…

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The pre-1970 rule is that the organ played only to support singing (the rule throughout Lent) on Holy Thursday until the end of the Gloria. Then it is silent until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil. So …

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I spent more than 30 years as a sports official trying to discern the real issue behind an angry coach's screaming from just the static. Although the complaint registered to you is quite formal,…

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