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		<title>Announcement:  At last, a CD of Bellahouston music!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the official one yet, but a CD made at one of John Pitcathley’s big Motherwell diocesan practices. Unlike our computer-generated MP3 files, it has real people singing the words! We understand that permission has been given for tracks from it to be uploaded soon to the official Scottish papal visit website, www.beingcatholic.org, so that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=869</link>
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		<title>Those sheep again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief pastoral update on the flock’s ability, often downplayed, to learn to sing Mass music. Technologically, these sheep are pretty sophisticated. Here’s what they’ve been up to in the last two months or so: Statistics show that several thousand unique visitors have accessed our MacMillan Mass MP3 files, listening to the Gloria most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=856</link>
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		<title>Bridal Chit-chat (8): Soloists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a rule, I have considerable trouble with wedding soloists. These people arrive with warm-up exercises, bottles of water to gargle, and requests for music to be transposed at sight into five flats. They can be trained or untrained, the latter subdividing into confident or nervous. The untrained but confident type can be quite pushy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=841</link>
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		<title>Technical mayhem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing I hate in church, it is ancient electronic music equipment: dangling rusty microphones dating back to the sixties; old wooden amplifier cases; aged stands and cabling taking up gallery space; a box marked ‘Disco’ gathering dust under the window. It’s even worse when attempts are made by well-meaning but unskilled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=802</link>
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		<title>Announcement:  a little extra help for the Sanctus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following feed-back that the Sanctus for Bellahouston on our SINGING THE MASS page was difficult to fit to the words, we have obtained permission to put in a couple of bits of music notation, which should help. Try it &#8211; you should find it easier now.]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=796</link>
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		<title>Bridal Chit-chat (7): The Unexpected Wedding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had just returned home after playing for a wedding in my church. I had kicked off my fancy sandals and was padding about in the kitchen making myself a well-earned cup of tea, when the phone rang. It was the minister of one of the local kirks. Could I play at a wedding? I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=758</link>
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		<title>The longest day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I said I was going to get back to normal blogging, but just one more word about the Papal visit. The organisers’ website has now given details of the timetable and a list of the music for 16 September. You can read the list here . What has struck me about this music list is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=730</link>
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		<title>Affairs Papal still developing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, I do so much want to get back to normal blogging, but this papal thing goes on and on … This morning our PP announced that the front page of this week’s Scottish Catholic Observer is completely wrong.  (That was actually a very unfair thing to say.  The last couple of paragraphs, which dealt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=710</link>
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		<title>Announcement: Practise MacMillan Mass on this website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At SINGING THE MASS you&#8217;ll find audio MP3 files and the words for the people&#8217;s parts of the Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation and Agnus Dei. If you open a second copy of your browser you can read and listen simultaneously. It&#8217;s not perfect, but it will supplement parish practices, and hopefully help people become familiar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=701</link>
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		<title>Religious experiences on holiday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No. 1  A village in the Landes, Gascony What a wonderful voice! A rich, vibrant baritone, equally impressive in speech and in song. And dominating. This was the priest. The organist had obviously been tamed long ago. She followed him meekly, underpinning his melodies with long chords. He provided all the phrasing and articulation required, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://forthinpraise.co.uk/blog/?p=654</link>
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