[Magdalen] Trinity Anyone?

[Roger Stokes]

It is the best statement of faith which studiously avoids heresy when it 
comes to the Trinitarian nature of our faith.  As such a simple chant 
(Gregorian rather than Anglican) is probably the best music for it.  
Anything else would interfere with the balance of the credal 
statements.  (I will be in the congregation at my new parish this Sunday 
so I wait to see what they will delight us with.)

Roger

On 29/05/2015 19:14, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> WHY do clergy inflict this on their congregations??
>
>> On May 29, 2015, at 2:07 ctPM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ascension may do the Te Deum; but Scott moans every year about the dreary
>> recitation of the Athanasian Creed.
>> I don't believe it is sung; if is it is in a simple psalm tune.  Is there a
>> full blown musical setting of the Athanasian Creed?
>> (maybe the Swedenborgians in Greek?)
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah geez, our Te Deum will take the form of a hymn: Holy God we praise your
>>> name.  Probably some cheesy tune that nobody knows. NOT the same as the
>>> real thing with its majestic words.  Couldn't we recite it or something?
>>> How I pine for full throttle liturgy and music in a grand setting!  Oh,
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 5/29/2015 1:09 PM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My little church will have both thuribles fuming away during the Te Deum
>>>> with the Sanctus bells ringing.  No choir, sadly, so who knows what our Mr
>>>> Music will come up with for us.  In my own heart, I will revisit other
>>>> lovely musical times while giving up myself to the glorious cloud.  A sad
>>>> footnote to my current life is that, with the total absence of smell since
>>>> January, I have lost that fabulous aspect of incense. :-(((
>>>>
>>>> I'm preaching and haven't one word down yet.  The joys of having a house
>>>> on the market.  Yikes!
>>>>
>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/29/2015 12:09 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   Home parishes for any of our listmembers dusting off the
>>>>> handbells and double thuribles for a Solemn Te Deum at the
>>>>> conclusion of the main choral liturgy this Sunday, Trinity Sunday?
>>>>>>  From personal experience, it is one of the really fun liturgical
>>>>> moments when the altar tends to play hide and seek from all the
>>>>> smoke, and best observed from the back of the church or the
>>>>> rear gallery.
>>>>>   Ringing chord clusters on handbells is also much fun as the
>>>>> church choir drones on through the lovely solemn plainchant.
>>>>>       David Strang - a spike at heart.