Hi to you All, Well - I have to come right out and say that I really do love Gregorian chant! I think Pope Gregory was wonderful to have the idea of putting the Mass to music, getting it done by various and sundry composers, and I have as many versions as possible - every time I see one, I am there in the front of the queue with my pennies in my hot little hand, just dying to hand them over in exchange for a CD! If fire or tempest struck, I am not sure what I would save first - the bobbins or the CDs.....
Our chapel was 200 years old in June this year, and we had a wonderful Mass (in the *borrowed* Anglican church in the village, would you believe!) with so many robed-up priests, deacons, bishops and church hierarchy, they nearly outnumbered the rest of us common peasants. But - the Mass singing was wonderful - led by a lady from a choral group in Cambridge (UK not Massachusetts) and what with that *and* the incense, I thought I was definitely in heaven! Back to a lace thread though. When we put together the parish history, for the bi-centenary celebrations, it was discovered that one of the ladies of the benefactor family (the family gave the land for the chapel to be built) had presented to the mother church, or possibly to the chapel in Giffords Hall, a beautiful old box, inside which was an altar cloth with a lace edging - and all this was from the 17th century. Apparently, the box plus embroidered altar cloth are still in Beccles (or was it Bungay) museum - but that last fact I haven't actually checked, but I *will* get round to it sooner or later. Carol - in East Anglia UK - where the CD player is gently playing Gregorian chants...... Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Gregorian chants > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
