Instructive thread on the USCCB Facebook page.
  • Ioannes Andreades
    Posts: 310
    The USCCB Facebook page asked the question, "What's your favorite hymn." It seems to me that How Great Thou Art is tied with Amazing Grace for first. This also seems to mirror other findings re: favorite hymns.
    https://www.facebook.com/usccb/posts/10151105766437285
  • GavinGavin
    Posts: 2,799
    Could be worse. Could be a lot worse.
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  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,509
    I've often thought that the single most important key to a church song's popularity was its having this particular format: low-pitched, almost monotonous verses, followed by a refrain that melodically soars. This list bears that out. It's not about the words or the particular tune, but about the format.

    THAXTED alone appears capable of being popular in a different way.
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  • donr
    Posts: 971
    Actually I think the most favorite was "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name"
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    +1 to both of Kathy's points.
    But, to what conceivable benefit would the USCCB ask such a banal question on FACEBOOK!!!???
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,215
    <flippancy on>
    It's their way of trying to promote full conscious and active participation in the FB page. FCAP consists of visible activity, right? So if people are clicking on buttons to vote in a poll with a banal question, it's FCAP, and the site is fulfilling its mission. Isn't that what Vatican II wanted?
    </flippancy off>
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  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    Blatant ripoff of the comic strip "BC"
    Chonak's got flippancy!
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