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Cruet
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Patrick, what you say about St. Mary's under the rectorship of Fr. Garfield is true. Let's not forget the large professional choir directed by James Palgrove, and assisted by
McNeil Robinson, the brilliant organist.
Unfortunately this grandeur was never to be seen or heard again.
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PD
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St Mary Abbott attempt a (fairly successful) combination of Choral Matins followed by Choral Eucharist once a month where the Matins acts as the service of the word and then picks up with the peace and Eucharistic Prayer. [/qb]
That's what is colloquially referred to as a Frankenmass over here - I assume the term was coined by folk who don't like the arrangement. What I was thinking of was the old Church of Ireland thing of cutting MP off after the Benedictus/Jubilate, then doing the Preces and fixed collects before sliding into the complete Communion Service. It is a bit on the long side (about an hour and a half) so I do not attempt it here as this lot get restive if I go too much over an hour.
We do chanted MP complete with sermon, then after the Offertory we pick up the Communion service at the Sursum Corda every other second Sunday of the month, and that alternates on Second Sundays with a very short MP - O Lord, open thou & c., Venite, Psalm, Lesson, Canticle, and the Communion service. As I said up thread, I prefer the longer arrangement, but it is tough on the average one hour a week churchgoer. It is difficult enough to get them in for anything these days. A lot of folks prefer to be entertained not join in.
PD
[ 20. May 2013, 17:57: Message edited by: PD ]
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Patrick
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Quite right, Cruet. Thank God I was around to experience those days (including Msgr. M. Bourke's liturgics at Corpus Christi parish). Apart from the processional hymns, the music at the Offertory was always exhilarating. I believe that the use of SMV entailed singing that hymn up to the penultimate stanza, then came some magnificent notes from the organ while the censing was completed and, finally, the congregation resuming at the final stanza of the hymn. Breath taking! As a friend of mine used to remark, "O McNeil, you've done it again!"
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