Growing up Catholic and never hearing it, I was thrilled by it the first time I learned to play it.
MUSIC DIRECTOR: "Don't you get it?!?! I HATE HAPPINESS!"
We used the Proulx harm this year, and I have to say I'd forgotten that it's not his best work. Lots of gilding the lily.
I think you might be saddened to know in how many places DREs have done their best to supplant it with the 4/4 tune cobbled out of LAMBILOTTE by someone in the OCP stable.I think that some here may be unaware that most everyone who was confirmed learned and sang this hymn - even recently.
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