Music selections
Kasia July 13th, 2008
The mothers will be seated to Bach’s Aria from Goldberg Variations. (The piano sounds a little tinny on my computer…hope it doesn’t on yours.)
The bridesmaids will process in to Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.
Canuck and I will process in to Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus from K.618.
The hymn for the Presentation of the Gifts will be Holy, Holy, Holy!
The Communion hymn will be Joyful, Joyful.
The recessional will be the Promenade from Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
I will try to find links to recordings of all of these later today so y’all can enjoy and envision… 
- Music , My Beloved , Wedding
Beautiful choices so far Kasia! I LOVE Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring…we played that my senior year of high school in symphony band. I still have the sheet music! It’s such a beautiful song…
Aww, thanks Stacy!
I hope I haven’t scared you and your sweetie off of getting married at St. A’s, having said what I did about the music minister and the pastor’s plans! (Really, MM is AMAZINGLY helpful and good at her job. She just didn’t know about that one bit in the rubrics…)
Nah, I’m not scared off….yet… lol! Although, I’ve always wanted to have my dad walk me down the aisle, so if they put in place the couple walking together, are they going to be mad if I want my dad walking me?????????
Well, like I said, I don’t know how strictly they’re going to enforce it. Father didn’t really say; but he did say that he knew it was going to be an uphill battle because of how entrenched the tradition is.
For what it’s worth, my guess is that they’ll let you have your dad walk you. The one possible hard line that they MIGHT take - my sister, after reading the comments, Googled and found something about the Archdiocese of Philadelphia starting to enforce this and a big brouhahaha that followed. They came back and clarified, saying essentially “We’re not saying that the father can’t walk the bride down the aisle. They just can’t be in a separate procession from the groom.” So I suppose the parish might say something similar: you can absolutely walk with your dad, but not with Cletus standing at the altar waiting while you and your dad do the Magnificent Dramatic Entrance.
(I am fairly sure that they will NOT allow the “Here Comes the Bride” Wagner chorus, because from what I’ve read, it has not only secular but actually anti-Christian origins.)
What I think the Philly folks are trying to do is keep people’s perspective on what is actually going on in the Sacrament. The Rite of Marriage is not, in the Church’s eyes, simply a hoop you have to jump through in order to have your day of being a princess and having your white dress and big party. It’s a Very Big Deal (as I’m sure you and Cletus know full well), and the Church is simply trying to keep the focus on the Sacrament rather than the trappings.
Anyway. Between the fact that it’ll still be a very new policy when your date rolls around, the strength of this particular tradition, and the parish’s general flexibility, I’m guessing you’ll be fine. But wait until the policy is announced before you go talking to Loretta - I don’t know if you’re supposed to know yet!