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Ooops to the Bells and Smells!
In my last post, I managed to get so completely immersed in the memories of trying to maintain my balance on a forward sloping organ stool while keeping the swells open with my knees and the bellows going like the clappers, that I overlooked the role of the bells and smells in Benediction! To be in […]
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Bells, Smells and Organ Swells
Each of the 6 children in our family learned the piano and each of us, with differing degrees of success, spent some time as or in support of the Parish Organist. Prior to the Second Vatican Council ( mid 1960’s ) music at Mass was not the usual thing. It was only after changes to […]
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Spiritual Bouquets and ejaculations
I can almost hear the exclamations and perhaps even outrage at the title of my offering today. However, remember, the purpose of my prose is to enlighten those of you who were not fortunate enough to be raised radical catholic in the era 1950 – 1959 in the hope that some light can be shed […]
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New to this
It is as though I have received a new toy and I am about 8 years old again. All I want to do is play with it! So the title of this entry is for all of you who may be reading this – in your HOARDS- and perhaps were not as fortunate (blessed in […]
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3,2,1 IGNITION….ZERO…..BLAST OFF! HERE I GO!
This is my third attempt at starting a blog. The title came to me at about 4.00am two days ago. Having recently been successful in logging on to the the Australian Government website to complete the census, on the day it was supposed to be completed which makes me a very, very special little Aussie) […]