SGA - St Gregory's Academy Promo Clip - Film Intro

[catholicarchangel]

What's the name of the music being sung in Latin?

[audman88]

@catholicarchangel it is called "In Paradisum", it is an antiphon sung at a requiem mass in the extraordinary form

[mrsgarrettrocks]

Is it true that many of the students drink heavily, smoke cigarettes and weed? Do many of the boys remain Catholic once they leave the school? I have heard so many horrible things about this school, I don't know what is true and what isn't. Very sad.

[audman88]

@mrsgarrettrocks no. it is not true that the students drink heavily or smoke. yes, many of the students remain catholic when they leave, usually stronger in their faith than when they arrived at the academy. it is a shame that such false rumors spread about this really good school. visit their website or contact one of the faculty members and i think you will be very impressed with the work that goes on there.

[tombnelson]

@mrsgarrettrocks I was a student at Saint Gregory's for three years and to tell you the truth there were only a handful of students who smoked cigarettes on campus. I also never saw or heard anything about students drinking during the academic year. As to weed, I only knew of two kids who would smoke ( both Canadian, and looked down upon by the student body for smoking it). Spiritually boys are strengthened, and many vocations to the priesthood and religious life were the fruit of the school.

[statefan101]

u guys are sooooo fucking weird

[RogueRover]

It's grand lads...it brings a tear to my eye.

[grandmammm]

Rome did NOT dictate that any Fraternity priest MUST say the Novus Ordo. I know many of these priests and none of them have ever celebrated in that form, even on Holy Thursday. My son attended St. Gregory's, it is him singing here. I thank God that he had the opportunity, as the school contributed significantly to the good and spiritual young man that he has become. Thank you to the Fraternity and all those who work so hard to make St. Gregory's the wonderful Catholic institution that it is.

[jfogliasso]

Oh my goodness...that video is super sweet! Makes me wish I had been a student!

[zakers]

great video!

[kramer491]

As for the rather odd clip of the boy showing off with the thurible - it made me think of a lad from Adelaide who served the closing Mass of the Christus Rex pilgrimage from Ballarat to Bendigo in Oz a few years ago. I have never seen anyone handle incense with such skill & assurance & APLOMB. LIke a great halfback in action. I would like to see the academy video show a thurifer at Mass, not performing for the camera.

But I should not pick holes. The movie is magnificently done.

[kramer491]

The second song you heard, that begins "Fighting bravely," is always sung by old boys of the academy in honor of one of their classmates during the school's first years, who lost his life in a diving

accident. Intensely moving. (YouTube limits comments to 500 characters. Will have to conclude in a 2nd post.)

[switchflip180]

Wh was the boy who died did he die at the school?

[singtomemuse]

The Academy has lost four of her students: Zachary Culley, Derek Foss, Paul Levine, and John Blonski. None of them died at St. Gregory's. Requiescant in pace.

[wilsoej0]

could some kind soul share with the fans of this video the author of the ballad?

[markschwerdt]

The first bit is from the Mass for the dead.

As the body is being carried from the church to the cemetery, and during the burial, the following can be sung:

May the Angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs greet you at your arrival and lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem.

The second bit, in English, is a traditional french folk song called 'My Dearest Comrade.'

[wilsoej0]

A Google search for "My Dearest Comrade" yields no results for the text. Do you have any idea who made the translation or where the french text might be.

[erasma64]

In French it is called J'avais un camarade, but it is originally a German song called Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. It has also been translated into other languages, including Latin.

[timfinigan]

Excellent video - going on my blog now!

[lmgilbert]

Very well done indeed, lads. It's not every prep school promo that would be throughout a meditation on love, conflict, death and resurrection. If this is a true portrait of you and your school, then you've come down in a glorious place alright. I wish you all the best.

[EireItaliana]

That's awesome guys. Maybe I'll send Jack there someday after all ... ;)

[SacagaweaExtreme]

Baird- Juliana gives it her thumbs up!