About Me:
I started running the choir at St Mary Magdalen’s on Sunday 27th January 2008. I had not sung for years, I had never played a Church Organ before and I had certainly never run a choir. When I left the church at the age of 18, i never wanted to hear ‘Shine Jesus Shine,’ ever again – I had played the keyboard for a Folk Mass every Sunday for years. When I returned to the church, years later, I discovered they were singing this stuff written in a funny notation and they actually sang in Latin. Someone said it was the music of the Mass – I was hooked.
St Mary Magdalen’s RC Church
Upper North Street
Brighton
The choir sings at the 10.30am Mass every Sunday
and most major feast days.
To contact the Choir Director;
Hi there! The iMass is of our chapel Christ the King in Sarasota, FL, USA. The video stream is on http://www.livemass.net. You can view the Sunday high Mass as well as daily Masses on the website. Father has been thinking about getting another camera to show a side view of the altar, however that is another expense. Re mantillas: Most of the women wear them, although they are not strictly required to. They do it to show respect for the Blessed Sacrament.
Leo, Thank you for your response. I am suddenly very fascinated with your filming, particularly now l know where you are. I apologise for my comments about close ups. In my paid job when l am not running our church choir, l am a commercials and television editor and director, hence the unashamed comments about camera angles and basically being a film snob. I am in great awe of people who use technology within the Catholic Church particularly the mediums of film and photography to reach people. l shall pay more attention with what you are doing because it clearly is a rather brilliant thing. I was just intrigued about the Mantillas…
Hi Clare,
I forgot to give you my e-mail address:
–> I’m the French guy with the pony tail, totally mesmerized by your iPad 2.
Jacques PERRIERE
Jacques,
Thanks for your e-mail address.
Get an ipad2. You’ll be hooked on the Liber Usualis app…
Clare
One of the most uplifting experiences English-speaking Catholics can have is attending the extraordinary form of the Mass with non-English speakers and praying or singing with them in one language. The plainchant Missa de Angelis is used at many sung Masses, and most traditional Catholics know it reasonably well. But why not have a four-part Mass which we can all learn to sing together?
Imagine the effect of something like that during a major pilgrimage! I’m suggesting that choral directors from the main traditionalist groups in countries such as Ireland, England, the US, France, Germany and maybe Asia and Africa agree a standard traditional polyphonic Mass (maybe Mozart?) and that the internet be used to popularise it.
The sheet music could be made available on blogs (like yours) and websites, the four parts could be featured on Youtube, sung separately by good sopranos, altos, tenors and basses (with maybe separate videos of tenors and basses together and sopranos and altos together), and the organ part could also be made separately available as a video.
All these could be linked from sympathetic blogs (such as yours again!) and websites. The Mass should be readily available internationally on a reasonably-priced CD, so people can play it at home or in the car and get used to it.
We’re a universal Church. Why not a universal polyphonic Mass – a Missa Mundi?
I’ve already put the idea to the former choirmaster from a major English Cathedral and to the organisers of the Charcres pilgrimage in France.
Please pass on the idea and let’s see if we can make it work!