Thursday, September 28, 2006

WOW.....

Kids in my parish, even the ones who go to the “organ Mass” (with still plenty of Haugen/Haas and Spirit & Song) don’t know “Now Thank We All Our God”.

WOW.

I mean, I knew that one from when I was a kid. It’s one of the few, very few, standard hymns I did learn among my parish school’s steady diet of Glory & Praise.

Any other horror stories out there of “WHAT??? They don’t know that hymn???”

2 Comments:

At Friday, September 29, 2006 1:02:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not a horror story, but a story of hope.

I have attended a quite liberal "faith community" for about 18 years. We recently got a new pastor who is much more orthodox than the previous one.

Last Holy Thursday, our new music director decided on chanting Pange Lingua Gloriosi for the resposition of the Eucharist.

I had never chanted in this church before, and I was excited about it. What was even more exciting was the half dozen or so strong voices chanting in unison with us from the congregation with almost perfect pronunciation.

One lady met with me after mass and with tears in her eye said: "It's been years since we sung that!".

 
At Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:20:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

At my previous parish where I started a choir three years ago (they had an organist who canted far too loug and sang with a harsh accent) I was quite shocked at the first rehearsal when they had never heard, let alone new, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past."

Alas, I was sacked just after Easter for using too much Latin over the Triduum...and 12 hours later God hit me with a lightning bolt and here I am building and conducting a schola for the Traditional Latin Mass!

 

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