Religion Chat Thread - part? The Resurrection

[nickelbabe]

It's been a while since we had a Chat!

So here we go - Religion Chat Thread.
Welcome to everyone who just wants to chat or gossip or share news about what's happening in your church life.

It's not about Debate, it's just friendly chatting.

so pull up a pew and grab a and a

I've put it on manuscript and had a go on the piano but I don't know it.

Pidjin - congratulations! I like the sound of your wedding. I'm not sure that loads of time to organise a wedding is always a good thing. I ended up wasting time and energy thinking about unnecessary and irrelevant stuff like table decorations. I even went to a wedding fair. Madness.

Thanks cloutie I may well be married by the time my nearest wedding fair comes round again, although if not I may well go and snigger at all the bridezilla-ness (I do the same in Lakeland to be fair, all those things you never knew you could live without! Ditto Mothercare. Most things just make me go Really?! with a face)

Nope, 11 days before

Ah well, plenty of time for you to purchase a balloon arch and colour co-ordinating ring pillow then.

and the essential chair covers

hello everyone!

Nickel, great to see you around again! I've been at vicar-training summer school, in fact just back home this afternoon, and about to crawl exhaustedly into bed, so just saying hello for now

I've sort of been around.
I've had so many things gloating about tgat mn gas been taking a back seat
don't tell anyone though!

most of those gs sgould have been hs.

Hi everyone! I didn't have much to contribute to the music discussion, sorry. I did recognise some of the tunes from listening to Classic FM Hall of Fame hour whenever possible, though. Not long now PurpleP hope all's going smoothly. I think my friends are relieved to have got through their special day and be married iykwim. It was a fraught situation for various reasons.

Hi niminy our psalm thread died a death

Hi cheapskatemum it's a shame about our psalm thread. I have the feeling that lots of regulars aren't around at the moment and it's hard to keep a thread going with only a very few of us. Never mind! Let's think about re-starting perhaps we could go back to doing the Sunday gospel reading, that seemed to work well once people get back from their summer holidays.

Just about recovered now from summer school, which was great but so intensive, and now spending some time with the children before they go back to school . On the music front, being at summer school with lots of enthusiastic singers and a wide range of music made me feel a bit glum about going back to the church I'm attached to during my training, which is cathedral style/hymns ancient and modern (or ancient and more ancient)/ let the choir do the singing and mumble along.

niminy, that's my ideal style - when you feel glum going back, think that I'll be enjoying it

Yeah, but you're in the choir Nickel, that makes all the difference.

I think the choir or rather choirs there are five separate choirs have all the musical fun at our place. At least during the summer we have the mass setting that everyone knows and can sing (what DH calls the Good Gloria), rather than the ones only the choir knows. I just wish we had a wider range of congregational music.

Hi ladies.
I have a deacons breakfast tomorrow morning. A tough one tomorrow to dissuade the minister from his bonkers ideas of moving the church to a local school, replacing all the 200+ chairs just because 1 has broken and other mad things he has come up with. I feel a long meeting coming on, but I am taking Lidl fresh croissants, so without a doubt that will be the highlight!!

positiveattitude that sounds like a tough meeting. Hope the croissants helped -- or at least helped keep everyone's blood sugar up!

you'll have to raise the subject then nim.

blimey PA sone people just don't live in the real world!

I'd love to see a change but as an ordinand I'm just on attachment there, and it would be the vicar/director of music/worship committee who made any changes. It's something to learn from and see what I can get out of it while I'm there.

okay, that's a good point, but you could make an anonymous suggestion saying how nice it was to have singing that the congregation could join in with, and how lovely it would be to have that setting maybe once a month at the principle service...

Hello all

How did the meeting go PA?

Hopefully will be around more now the dc are back at school, and ready to talk all things church music/church anything/anything really :) Hope you all had a great summer. The summer school sounds like it was good niminy. I always feel similar coming back to church from New wine, it's just never quite the same, there is something about worshipping with loads of other people, all giving it their all - whichever style you happen to enjoy more

Helloooooooo! I'm back! [waves manically] Thank you for starting the thread, Nickel.

I have been ROFLing at Pidgin's attempt to transcribe organ music through the medium of words... Excellent! Hope the wedding is amazing - it sounds fab!

Niminy - I think we manage to combine the traditional (choir-led, etc.) with the congregational quite well, but I am a non-singer so perhaps easily pleased. But the mass setting(s) we use are pretty singable even for non-singers and we have coped quite well over the summer sans choir, which is always the acid test.

cheapskate - where were you in the US? I'm off over there (for work) in a couple of weeks and am half-planning (in that idle just-back-from-one-holiday-need-to-think-about-the-next kind of way) a holiday there next Easter, which would combine work (I'll be there anyway, so it'd be one less person to pay for) and pleasure - either Midwest (that's where I'll definitely be for work) or East Coast (where I may be able to wangle a work-related extension!).

Look forward to chatting.

ah, good

we've done remarkably well too for music.

the other week (before thid thread), dh dug out an anthem that we hadn't sung for about 7 years, since tge old choirmaster left! ge wanted to see how well we remembered it in the view of resurrecting it.
we sang it through 3 times at that rehearsal, decided we knew it well enougg that we sang it that Sunday! and it was practically flawless
that doesn't happen often.

asst organists back has gone again, so he couldn't get to church on sunday. whicg meant we couldn't do our set anthem (Michael marshall's when i ssurvey the wondrous cross - dh doesn't know it on the organ as he's only ever had to play it when we first learned it)
so he chose a hymn (as the deer - I chose that)and elgar's ave verum. not bad from all of us on the hop

How is the planning going Pidjin? I remember only too well the mountain of stuff that we had to get through.