Remote Rehearsals

Alan suggested that we might practice the Vespers at home to get used to the text.
I looked on YouTube.
The only recordings of the Vespers of the Assumption I could find are from the two guys I posted last week. But they are not singing Mode VII. Worth watching to see that there are slight differences from the gestures Alan described. And to highlight the need to practice gestures, so as not to detract from the prayerful dignity:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ww_e4dTTbs

We are at least as good as these two blokes.

The Salve Regina we are learning is here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OIDAc-zFkY&list=PL2829C797E9C12E89&index=38

It is a very good effort and we can learn a lot from the Schola of the Hofburgkapelle Vienna.

I can report that the Ladies Group's 'fish tea' in the hall was a big success as was the ice cream, served with old-fashioned Oysters and 'nugget wafers':

All of the ice cream was scoffed (Fr Joe helped, apparently) so we would have got short shrift if we had gone over and asked for some, as I had suggested.
Did you know that 'shrift' derives from shriven and a short shrift implies a short Confession?
I didn't. But "any fule knos" as Jennings would have it.