For many years Coral Ridge had two very distinct worship services – one contemporary and one traditional. The result was the unintentional development of two different churches under one roof. It wasn’t healthy. So back at the end of Spring we started talking about what we could do to unify our one large church.
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This was to have been our great opportunity to learn the same Mass settings, get our celebrants singing, and get our congregations catechized. In the end, I sense faith-filled pragmatism will win out, as it always has. – Michael Silhavy
“Congrega nos” – in 6/8
Aug 29
This is really clever – “Gather Us In” in Latin!
“Maybe the greatest challenge that lies before us is the invitation once again to sing the Mass rather than merely to sing at Mass.” – Msgr. Wadsworth, ICEL director
So what are the “things that pertain to responsibility of the presider”? This sentence was added to the previous editions of the GIRM (see below).
Preparing liturgy is one of the most important tasks of everyone involved, presider, ministers, and assembly. Whatever mechanism for preparing liturgy a parish chooses (committee, advisory board, or the like), it needs to pay great attention to the rules of good communication and good liturgy. Three times between Paragraph 119 and [MORE...]
is in Atlanta this August 21st.
America on new music
Jul 27
Here is America magazine on new music for the new translation at the recent NPM convention.
The NPM convention ended Friday noon with everyone standing to sing a full-throated “Halleluja Chorus” from Messiah. It was very moving.
NPM in Detroit, Wednesday
Jul 14
Pastoral Musician of the Year is Bob Hurd. Jubilate Deo award this year goes to Sr. Kathleen Hughes, RSCJ.
NPM in Detroit, Monday
Jul 12
NPM in Detroit, “Hope and Harmony,” is very much up and running.