CharlesW

Isaac Jogues Hymnal Project / Missal, Lectionary, Gradual
I am curious about the hymn layout. I had genuine issues with the layout in the Vatican II hymnal and wonder if the new hymnal is more standard. What about hymn accompaniments? Are they closer to standard and known harmonizations and not newly wr…

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Ash Wednesday - interesting happenings and music?
I have dealt with some of those "rad trad fundies" and they are every bit as bad as the aging flower children who want to give peace a chance. The solution would be a large boat in the middle of the sea with all of them on it. Then a sto…

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Isaac Jogues Hymnal Project / Missal, Lectionary, Gradual
How much does it cost and is there an index listing what is in it?

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Isaac Jogues Hymnal Project / Missal, Lectionary, Gradual
I just listened to "Touch the Earth Lightly" on St. YouTube. I had not seen or heard it before. It has kind of a good drinking song timing or rhythm to it, I guess. It didn't include global warming, so the author somehow forgot tha…

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Isaac Jogues Hymnal Project / Missal, Lectionary, Gradual
Now Francis, you just need to sing to the mountains, drink to the sea, seize your stein and hold it high... ;-)

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Place of Vernacular Hymns in a Traditional Catholic worldview
Yeah, but don't forget we started out by thumbing our nose at the Europeans.

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Were You There
I don't fight that battle since it isn't worth it. I program "Were You There" on Good Friday, and it isn't heard again until the next year. I personally am not fond of it, but it isn't worth fighting over.

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Were You There
I would like to put, "Ah, Holy Jesus" in place of it, but AHJ disappeared from our GIA hymnals a long time ago. Why I don't know, since it is a good hymn. I remember being told to never use the accompaniment to "Holy God...&quo…

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Ash Wednesday - interesting happenings and music?
My pastor takes the position that he is the parish liturgist. He can usually produce documents to prove what he says. I have encountered a few of Gavin's experts, too. I usually tell them I don't work for them and to take their complain…

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Isaac Jogues Hymnal Project / Missal, Lectionary, Gradual
"many priests who have a hard time sleeping" worrying about what lyrics will be used at Mass the next day. You have to be kidding! Many priests just want noise at mass to cover various actions. Somehow I have never found next day…

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Viola Organista
Are these commercially available, or are they custom instruments rarely seen on the open market?

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Role of the Cantor
My cantors are in the loft with me and sing psalms and gospel acclamations. They sing with the congregation on hymns.

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Place of Vernacular Hymns in a Traditional Catholic worldview
I am afraid that in the storied past of high mass legend, all was not pristine or glorious. They had bad choirs, terrible soloists, crappy instruments, and poorly written music in too many parishes. The mediocrity of liturgy is a constant from age…

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Ash Wednesday - interesting happenings and music?
I hate to tell you guys this, but anything I write on this forum I would sign my name to. I generally say what I honestly think. Some accept that, others don't. There is never any malice, but I readily accept that all may not agree with me. …

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Ash Wednesday - interesting happenings and music?
Amount of time I am spending thinking about anything related to Holy Week and Easter next year - think zero! I survived this year and for that I am extremely grateful. My concern at this point is directed toward Pentecost, the patronal feast of th…

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Ash Wednesday - interesting happenings and music?
Good point, Padster. Some of the EF folks can be the most difficult for OF people to deal with. Their rules are not our rules. We have rules and procedures but they are guidelines, not so much laid-down-from-God law. Also, I think newer rules ha…

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Were You There
So, he converted after he was no longer receiving any money or benefits from slave trading? That sounds terribly like an Augustinian conversion to me. I need to read up on Newton.

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Wicks Organ Co
It's that 4-foot jet exhaust on the Great that helped pay for the plane. ;-)

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Were You There
ROFL.

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Were You There
Amazing Grace is one that I program once per quarter. The associate pastor has pointed out that it presents a Calvinist understanding of grace, not a Catholic one. He understands I realize that and am doing for the people who request it. It is lik…

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Place of Vernacular Hymns in a Traditional Catholic worldview
I have one of those dumb phones, too. All you can do on it is talk or text, and I generally refuse to do much texting. BTW, it is never my phone that plays some stupid jingle during mass. It is the less-than-smart owner of the phone who doesn'…

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Place of Vernacular Hymns in a Traditional Catholic worldview
it seems the reality is: 1.) Everyone doesn't sing everything. They look at their smart phones or read the bulletin. 2.) You wont see everything while looking at the iPhone. 3.) Many churches are so acoustically dead microphones become necessa…

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Other Forums
Thou shalt have no other forums before me... There, it really could have been written in stone. Those old documents make interesting reading, but are not the current law for the OF. I don't try to apply them to a context they were not inten…

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Were You There
I don't think anyone's faith or morals will be compromised by singing "Were You There." Is it great music? Probably not. Does it come from a culture largely foreign to the Roman Rite? Yes, it does. Does it appeal to sentimen…

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Place of Vernacular Hymns in a Traditional Catholic worldview
I am afraid the "traditional Catholic worldview" has meandered all over the place over time. What exactly is it anyway, or what is it that some of you think it was/is?

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Place of Vernacular Hymns in a Traditional Catholic worldview
My dear old organ professor, who also worked in a Methodist church on Sundays, gave me the following advice on postludes. Turn on the sforzando and put both elbows on the great manual. They are all headed for the door and wont know the difference.

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Were You There
I found it interesting, when working with the funeral of a black friend, the reactions to spirituals from the relatives. They didn't know them well and called them, "slave songs." In their own worship (the deceased had converted to …

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Victoria Withdrawal
Perhaps he doesn't know Victoria's secret. ;-) Maybe Victoria is being coy.

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Were You There
They were not intended as parody lyrics, but as events I actually did witness. I wasn't there for the crucifixion - even at my age I would have remembered that - but I was there for the events I mentioned. They did make me want to tremble.

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Were You There
Wendi, I used to not worry so much about such things. Then a few years ago, someone walked into the local Unitarian church one Sunday and shot several people. There were casualties. I observe things more closely these days.

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