Can I have suggestions for a streaming Mass? The Mass being streamed from the Cathedral in Brisbane is unwatchable even when it isn’t freezing repeatedly.
I stumbled onto Shalomworld and I’ll see if there is something there today there but I would like suggestions for a mass to watch that might encourage a measure of vicarious participation.
The minimum would seem to be some technical sophistication (eg volumes from the microphones balanced), some actual music – it can be simple but it has be real music, and the word proclaimed understandably – not chanted poorly.
I know I sound like I am whining (I am) but when the glitchy, dreary Easter Vigil Mass from Brisbane finally froze for the last time it was such a relief.
I was having the same problem. There is no shortage of live stream options available here, but most have no music. The Mass I like best isn’t exactly “live.” It’s the Heart of the Nation Mass out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They show it on TV here and also put it on YouTube on Saturday around 4 or 5 PM. (I think that’s 7 or 8 AM Sunday your time.) From what I’ve read, they prerecord four or five weeks worth back to back so they should be stocked up for at least a couple more weeks.
They always have a nice choir from a local parish. This week’s song selections were “Sing to the Mountains,” “We Walk by Faith” (Haugen), “O Sons and Daughters,” and “Sing with All the Saints in Glory.”
Since they prerecord the Mass, the homilies don’t refer to anything timely. Some might not like that, but I appreciate to escape from the constant talk about the virus.
Thanks for the tip.
There have been some noises from the One Licence people that a further licence is required for music used in streaming liturgies and that might encourage the use of public domain hymns only. I found a mass from the Parramatta diocese near Sydney to stream and while it was very traditional and the music not what I would usually enjoy, it was at least coherent and the organ and choir were fine.
Due to our relative isolation and early restrictions on group activities we have been extremely lucky with Covid 19 in Australia with only about 70 deaths in total – most from bad luck with cruise ships. The health system geared up for a far worse outbreak here than has occurred to date and testing and contact tracing is available and funded by the government.
We get blanket coverage of the bad news from Europe and the US so stay safe.
Geoff
You might like the Hobart one. Organ with cantor for the music, and apart from the concelebrating priests, miked up very nicely.
I have a feeling that to really have “performed” music, you need to have recording equipment which is set up for live sound: for our church-building, we’ve been told that the in-house system sounds poor because there’s no compression, and I suspect that streamed music might be similar.
The ones I’ve liked most are these lads from Palmerston North – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsuh9V3w-WRG7yEAnAf_FA – three of them live in the same house, and they call all sing. So it’s simple, intimate and unaccompanied and YouTube livestreaming is working.
This parish has done well with integrating contributions from various parties into their recorded Masses: https://kapiti-catholic.org.nz/ (I think they’ve had help from a funeral director: they know more about streaming, because they’ve had demand to do it before).
One think I picked up is that getting a sense of communal participation is very difficult because viewers all have different upload/download speeds: so trying to get them all talking and heard at the same is probably technically impossible.
Hi everyone
At Holy Spirit Parish Cranbrook we have a live streaming license with One License and we check to make sure the music publishers have given live streaming permission as you can check on One License to see who has given permission for their music to be live streamed. We live stream on Facebook under Holy Spirit Parish Cranbrook on Sundays at 8.30 am. It is a public page. As we are only allowed five people in the church we have one organist and 2 singers.
A couple of channels I’ve found work reasonably well are Melbourne, and on a local level St Martha’s Strathfield / Sydney.