My MC has pinned me down and got me to agree to singing the preface at Christmas Midnight Mass in the more solemn tone. Actually it didn't take much persuading really; it does seem the right thing to do. The problem is that I have never sung the more solemn tone and need to learn it properly. I have the score and I will be having a run-through with a good singer tomorrow. It would be useful to have a video or an mp3 file to practise with but I couldn't find one just now.
If you know of somewhere on the internet where there is such a video or sound file, please drop the link into the combox or send me an email (blackfencatholic@gmail.com). If you send me a file by email, please let me know whether it can be reposted here for public use.
If you are looking for the same thing yourself, I will update this post as and when something turns up.
UPDATE: Fr Z has now posted the needed mp3 file. Many thanks indeed Father.
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Inspired by your blog entry, I made an audio project with all three tones for the Christmas Preface. It's posted on my own blog, with which you may be familiar.
Fr Z seems to have come up with the goods?
Hello Father,
I think you should go to Fr. Z's site: http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/12/prayercazt-30-3-tones-of-the-christmas-preface-1962mr/ .
Ah! what could be better?
Have just listened to Fr. Z's podcast - sounds beautiful. Good luck with learning it, Father.
Someone some weeks ago was asking about the Offertorium.They are all in the Gregorian Missal, published by Solesmes
The Bishops seem lukewarm about the Ordinariate. Odd. We already have a multi-ritual country with a Ukrainian Cathedral. The situation is normal in SE Italy, the Middle-East and the borders of Poland and of course in the USA and other places of diaspora.
I am a cradle Catholic with a family history of Anglicanism.When I told my Bishop that I thought the Ordinariate was the best thing since Lord Halifax he looked blank. We should all, in time, make a point of attending the churches of the Ordinariate to shew that we welcome them and their rite within the Catholic Church. I bet the Bishops won't!
It really isn't that difficult, Fr Tim; it's basically the same tone as the Exsultet.
@ Father Finigan
Fr. Z's podcast http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/12/prayercazt-30-3-tones-of-the-christmas-preface-1962mr/ speaks to my soul. Thank you.
At last year's CRISIS OPEN CHRISTMAS, the theme in the CRISIS Arts Room at Deptford Reach was HOPES & DREAMS. I put the exact words that Christ said to me in a big dream up on the wall "Jam lucis orto sidere".
It was also good to see last Christmas, that Our Lady of the Rosary's Arts Department were working hard on ideas for a minor basilica in Blackfen.
Has there been any futher progress with this project?
Iain Duncan Smith's DW& P want people like me who are on Jobseekers Allowance to work for their benefits. I have no problem with that, it's just that I would prefer to use my skills working on the Blackfen minor basilica, than I would picking up litter like Ian Clement the former Leader of Bexley Council & Deputy Mayor of London after he was convicted of expenses fraud.
Ben Bolgar at the Prince's Foundation www.princes-foundation.org may be able to help your minor basilica team with planning and architectural support.
May your dreams come true :-)
At the General Election former Met Police Inspector Michael Barnbrook, the malevolent neo-Nazi BNP Police Spokesman, stood as a candidate for MP in the Dagenham and Rainham Parliamentary constituency. Nick Griffin MEP, the BNP's leader stood as a candidate for MP in the neighbouring Parliamentary constituency of Barking. The BNP also put up candidates in all three London Borough of Bexley constituencies : Stephen James in Bexleyheath and Crayford : Kevin Saunders in Erith & Thamesmead : John Brooks in Old Bexley and Sidcup. The BNP Parliamentary AGENT FROM HELL 666, for Bexley's Parliamentary constituencies 999 +, was Mr Michael Barnbrook, 24 Holbeach Gardens, Sidcup, Kent DA15 8QW, which is on the doorstep of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School in Blackfen +
I would be failing in my professional 'duty of care' if I failed to identify, and actively oppose the evil on the doorstep of Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School in Blackfen +, and in Greater London too.
I would therefore also like to dedicate my own anti-Nazi, You-Tube video performance at Barking & Dagenham Town Hall to BLACKFEN'S MINOR BASILICA & BEXLEY COUNCIL'S CULTURAL OLYMPIAD POETRY WORKSHOP:THEME SPORT TOO You Tube - Roy Hobson's anti-Nazi performance in Barking & Dagenham 2007 (From Dark to Light Too) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS9cKgj4UB4
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2010/10/celebrating-parish-feast-day.html ) pray for us in BNP leader Nick Griffin MEP's EU/GLA/LDA/ODA NEO-NAZI DEVELOPMENT TIMES Amen
PAPA RATZI ( http://www.thepapalvisit.org ) ORA PRO NOBIS!
Yours sincerely
Roy Hobson aka Our Lady's "Vesper" ON-LINE +
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Pastor in Valle - Ah! That is a most helpful hint.
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