Mealor Ubi caritas

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1. Ronald Richard Duquette says

   May 1, 2011 at 2:08 pm

   Tim – I’d go one step further.  I spent two (happy, happy!) years in England in 1992-1994, and sang with a local community chorus, the St. Neot’s Choral Society – 110 voices from a town of 30,000.  Proof yet again that something truly profound in the British (and I mean that in its fullest sense) soul responds overwhelmingly to choral music – their own and others’.  The thing that truly struck me about the wedding was, yes, while the British can truly “pomp the circumstances” (wonderful phrase!), they also have a deep sense of what to do when.  The Mealor, if you pay attention, was after the reading by James Middleton, and before the final blessing, and was this moment of utter, total, and complete silence and stillness.  While it’s not easy to “pomp the circumstances” and the Brits do it oh-so-well, they also have an exquisite sense of when pomp and circumstance fail, and when we must completely, utterly, totally surrender ourselves to the “small, still voice” of the Lord within us.  For me, at least, that was perhaps the most moving moment in the whole beautiful event.  We should study this and learn.

    

   Ron

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2. Tim Sharp says

   May 1, 2011 at 9:16 am

   Once again, our British colleagues demonstrate something they do as well, if not better, than most anyone in the world, which is pomping the circumstances. We ceremonialize the events in our lives that have the most meaning to us, and this event demonstrated a high level of meaning, with the accompanying high level of ceremony. However, it occurred to me while watching the broadcast of the Royal Wedding that there would probably be no other wedding like this for a long time to come, but there is no reason that the Mealor, or the Rutter, or the Parry, could not be sung at even the most modest of weddings.

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3. David Topping says

   May 1, 2011 at 8:16 am

   Thanks, Allen — I’m one of the three. However, the video you linked to was uploaded in the wrong format (height/width ratio) so everything looks squished, and it’s also not high def. Here’s a link to one that’s both high def and has the ration properly set.

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