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Diocese bans ‘All Are Welcome,’ other hymns from Catholic Masses
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It's a beautiful song. I went to a Catholic High School in Arizona, we sung it there.For Lady Bug!
Got an ear worm yet!
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a Holy light
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
The shepherds feared and trembled
When, lo! Above the Earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior's birth
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
Down in a lowly manger
Our humble Christ was born
And brought us all salvation
That blessed Christmas morn
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
That Jesus Christ is born
I heard it as a Protestant but never heard it sung inside the Catholic Church.
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I have an attachment to Hosea. I heard it my first Lent as I was inquiring about joining the church.
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I just don’t like the melody. Here is Dolly Parton singing it where the melody is softened a bit.
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This song always reminds me of the church we attended when I was a kid with the windows open and the breeze blowing, the month of May and my mom (her birthday was in May).
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What I posted was my own personal parody of an utterly dreadful song written by the infamous Marty Haugen. You may have heard the actual version, which goes like this:We are many parts
We are all one body;
And the gifts we have
We are given to share.
May the spirit of love, make us one indeed;
One, the love that we share
One, our hope in despair,
One, the cross that we bear.
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Marty Haguen isn’t even Catholic. He was originally a Lutheran music composer, and is now a member of the United Church of Christ.
We are many parts
We are all one body;
And the gifts we have
We are given to share.
May the spirit of love, make us one indeed;
One, the love that we share
One, our hope in despair,
One, the cross that we bear.
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Yes, I did know that; odd, to say the least. And along with the banning of David Haas' music in many dioceses due to the allegations of sexual misconduct, there is also the issue of former Jesuit Dan Schutte, who may or may not be an openly homosexual individual living in a partnered relationship with another man. Pro-Schutte sources rabidly defend Schutte, saying the allegations are all nonsense, but the stories persist and refuse to go away.
But regardless of the misdeeds of these guys or not, IMHO the music written by all these guitar-players between 1969 and 1990 is, for the most part, just wretchedly awful. Myself, I would reject it simply because it's just bad music. It can be done nicely if performed in a studio by professional musicians, either solo or in a small group, but it is absolutely worthless for a liturgical service where you have large numbers of people trying to sing it en masse. It just doesn't work.
And a lot of it is horribly dated now; it sounds like something you would have heard on a Top 40 radio show in 1971. Take one of Schutte's anthems as one example, "Here I Am, Lord":
"Here I am, Lord, is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night....."
Which is exactly the same tune as:
"Here's the story, of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls..."
Now I don't know about anybody else, but I don't go to Mass so I can sit there and listen to the theme song of The Brady Bunch.
I might as well be sitting there singing about riding through the desert on a horse with no name.
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Wow! I knew about Haas, but wasn’t aware of Schutte! Yikes!Yes, I did know that; odd, to say the least. And along with the banning of David Haas' music in many dioceses due to the allegations of sexual misconduct, there is also the issue of former Jesuit Dan Schutte, who may or may not be an openly homosexual individual living in a partnered relationship with another man. Pro-Schutte sources rabidly defend Schutte, saying the allegations are all nonsense, but the stories persist and refuse to go away.
But regardless of the misdeeds of these guys or not, IMHO the music written by all these guitar-players between 1969 and 1990 is, for the most part, just wretchedly awful. Myself, I would reject it simply because it's just bad music. It can be done nicely if performed in a studio by professional musicians, either solo or in a small group, but it is absolutely worthless for a liturgical service where you have large numbers of people trying to sing it en masse. It just doesn't work.
And a lot of it is horribly dated now; it sounds like something you would have heard on a Top 40 radio show in 1971. Take one of Schutte's anthems as one example, "Here I Am, Lord":
"Here I am, Lord, is it I, Lord? I have heard you calling in the night....."
Which is exactly the same tune as:
"Here's the story, of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls..."
Now I don't know about anybody else, but I don't go to Mass so I can sit there and listen to the theme song of The Brady Bunch.
And yes, we need better music. It does sound very dated and not very spiritual or uplifting.
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