Musician, teacher, blogger
There are many reasons that I am blessed to be involved in Immaculate Heart Parish. Before I converted to Catholicism I had the pleasure of being involved in music making in the Anglican tradition and in my last post I inherited a strong choral tradition and had a beautiful three manual Mirlees pipe organ to play.
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Immaculate Heart Parish Balornock 11.30am Missa Cantata
Organ Prelude- Prelude pour Grand Orgue, OL 46, Louis Couperin
Hymn- Praise to the holiest
Proper- Da Pacem
Ordinary- Missa Orbis Factor
Credo I
Offertory Motet- Ego Dixit (Sana anima meam), F Pearce
Communion (Organ)- Pange Lingua OL 34, Louis Couperin
Organ Postlude- Chaconne in G Minor, Louis Couperin
Still basking in the graces of the visit of the relics of St Therese to Scotland, we arrive today at her feast day (traditional calendar). As someone who has a particularly liturgical prayer life, I often look to the Mass and the Office for insights into the spiritual complexion of a feast.
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Sunday 6 October 2019 – XVII Sunday after Pentecost II Cl
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A straightforward video post today. Here is the beautiful Credo IV performed by Schola Una Voce a few months ago. I first heard this setting of the creed in an album recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir and particularly loved the organ accompaniment. There is just something heavenly about a major subdominant in mode I!
Pope Francis addressed the 140 year old Italian Association of St Cecilia on the 28th of September.
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The hymn for Matins and Vespers on the feast of St Michael the Archangel was originally written by Rabanus Maura in the early 9th century. The text was revised in the 1600s and indulgenced by Pope Pius VII in 1817.
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For many years now, even from my Anglican days, I have incorporated the Divine Office into my prayer life. Praying the breviary opens us up to more of the Church’s liturgy and intensifies our affinity with the mind of the Church through the pattern of psalms, canticles and antiphons.
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The last three weeks have been monumental for Scottish Catholics. Thanks to the hard work of Sancta Familia Media and Fr Grant in cooperation with the Bishops of Scotland, the relics of the Little Flower have traveled the length and breadth of the country.
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Here you will find a collection of resources for the use of children at the Traditional Latin Mass, sourced and arranged by Mrs Pearce.
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