[Magdalen] Trinity Anyone?

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Fri May 29 20:50:58 UTC 2015


Thanks for this, Scott.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 5/29/2015 2:28 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> That hymn is well known to Roman Catholics. Their version adds a couple of
> yodels and a repeat that we haven't got in our version. I think the hymn is
> often sung at the end of benediction of the blessed Sacrament.
> On May 29, 2015 12:22 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.
>>>>
>>>>



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