The Institute for Liturgical Music is a new venture by the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory under the joint patronage of Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham and composer James McMillan.
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What Settings Will We Sing?
But to start the conversation: What Mass settings will you be using?
Read moreHow are US publishers responding to the early rollout of Mass settings?
More than one person in the industry said that a bit more advance notice might have been helpful. Maybe gradual implementation could have begun this Advent, with a grace period of a year or so until settings with old texts are superseded.
Read moreGradual rollout of new Mass settings in the US (UPDATED 6-17)
The USCCB has approved the gradual introduction of new musical settings…
Read moreAnd so it begins… and continues…
“Please find attached the Preface for this coming Sunday – it is not in the interim missals we are working with. Not that anyone’s going to understand it, mind you.”
Read moreAnd so it begins…
June 11, 2011: Pentecost Sunday (vigil) in a local western Sydney parish brought with it the first in-liturgy use of the new translation[…] The liturgy had more of a feeling of ‘classroom’ than prayer-event at times.
Read moreA fetish for the Bible
by Giles Fraser, writing in The Guardian.
“The King James version has been manipulated for 400 years. Save it from the text obsessives.”
But… this is before we even implement the missal…
Save the date: Christ will return May 21, 2011.
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