HYMN OF THE MONTH - August: Immaculate Mary
  • Don9of11Don9of11
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    HYMN OF THE MONTH – August: Immaculate Mary

    As part of my series on Catholic hymns, I have chosen the hymn Immaculate Mary. This is a hymn that all Catholics should know but you may not be aware of the history and development of the hymn. Please take a moment to read about this beautiful Marian hymn.

    Please visit my website Mother of Mercy Catholic Hymns and click on HYMN OF THE MONTH.

    https://www.motherofmercycatholichymns.com/immaculate-mary/
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen oldhymns
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,092
    Thank you.

    Our Lady of Victories was the French national parish for Boston, run by the Marists, before it was closed in 2016. It was gutted last year and is in the process of being turned into condos.

    https://bostonrealestatetimes.com/kems-corporation-and-finegold-alexander-commence-construction-of-la-victoire-in-bostons-bay-village-neighborhood/

    It's offensive that the promoters of the condos are promoting their "sinful view of Boston".

    https://www.lavictoireboston.com/
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  • Don9of11Don9of11
    Posts: 708
    @Liam - Thank you for the photo. Any idea on what happened to the organ. I have some details about the casavant organ opus #1484 sent to me by the archivist if anyone is interested.
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,092
    Unfortunately, I don't. I wonder if the Marists had any other place that could make appropriate use of it.

    The magnificent Hook organ of the Jesuit's former Immaculate Conception Church (closed in 2007; now condos, of course...) in the adjoining neighborhood ended up in storage at Boston College. https://www.thediapason.com/content/1863-e-g-g-hook-opus-322-church-immaculate-conception-boston-massachusetts-part-1
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,308
    Tozer was wrong to remove the last Ave. Yes, the Latin accent is wrong, but it’s not called the Roman Hymn, now is it.

    And this made me wildly angry when I read it the first time. It is dripping with contempt, and the new words are not nearly as good.

    Catholic devotion, as the Church takes care to emphasize, should represent, not what we would wish to feel, but what we actually feel. There is no need for saying our hearts are on fire when really thy are not. This device exalts the emotions at the expense of reason. The whole tradition of Catholic devotion opposes the fabrication of an external devotion with poetic conceits and painfully drawn figures of speech which does not in the least represent our interior dispositions.

    The hymn must express, not what makes its subject so sweet or beautiful alone, but what makes it so holy, magnificent, and lovable, so worth singing to and about. THE PEOPLES HYMNAL strives, therefore, to avoid every meretricious pretense of emotion, and replace this all-too-common hymnology with compilation of hymns meant to arouse a mature, honest, and integrally human response.
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