Catholic Religious Hymns

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There was another thread talking about the Liturgical Music but it seems to have been deleted. I think it will be a good idea to share our favorite religious songs with each other.
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Here’s another one that I’ve liked since I was about 4 or 5. It seems to have 1001 arrangements judging by Youtube and 1000 of them sound terrible to me; the song is not supposed to be sung like a dirge, nor is it for someone to show off vamping on the piano. I can’t help but feel that half of the “arrangements” are for musicians to basically show off, which is annoying when it’s a hymn. This version sounds the most like I always thought the song was supposed to sound.

 
Even when I was a Protestant, Hail Holy Queen kind of stuck to my ears. (The first time hearing it was in the movie Sister Act.)
 
I fell in love with this hymn before I even became Catholic. When my wife was pregnant I memorized it so I could sing it to my children.

 
I like that one too because it reminds me of my mother.
I was taken aback to read some article on Catholic music in which the author specifically singled it out as an example of insipid sentimentality and proceeded to whine about how bad it was.
All I know is that my mother and a lot of other devout ladies liked it just fine.
That author needs to quit imposing his musical prejudices on others.

Edited to add, Thanks to this post, i’ve now found the Youtube trove of old Marian hymns that I remember from childhood in addition to “Immaculate Mary” and “Bring Flowers of the Fairest”…stuff like “Mother Dear Oh Pray For Me”, and “Mother Dearest, Mother Fairest” and “On This Day, Oh Beautiful Mother”. Ah, the good ol’ days.
 
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Yes, you must also remember the Marian procession and hymns from the Fifties, such beautiful memories. Sadly, these are seldom being sung anymore.

They also remind me of my Mom, too.
 
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Sadly, i was not born until the 60s so I remember almost none of these things. When I was a preschooler, the Catholic school in our neighborhood had a May crowning and my mother took me to see it. By the time I started at that Catholic school just about 3 years later, they had done away with the custom, and I never saw a Mary May Crowning or a procession for decades 😦 I know the hymns because my mom liked to do the Our Lady of Perpetual Help novenas and there were a couple of churches that would hold them regularly, so we’d hear all of them there.

It is now making a return, I see. My local church had a May crowning last May. They had a little girl to crown the Mary statue in the church, and a big high school boy to lift her high up to reach the statue’s head. I’ve also gotten to see some very nice processions at the Marian shrines like Blue Army Shrine and National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. A few churches also do it in connection with a Fatima devotion from time to time.

I even happened to stumble into a church a few weeks back that was outside of my usual area and found they were doing the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Novena again 🙂 (but with no hymns, alas.)
 
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The May Crowning was a special day. We dressed up, and walked around the Church, carrying flowers, and singing the hymns. At 68, it’s something I still miss every May, and my Mom also was devoted to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. I haven’t posted a song here I love because it’s not a hymn. It’s Isle of Innisfree by Daniel O’Donnell. It’s the only one I’ve ever heard that recalls the family kneeling together of a family to say the Rosary. Worth a listen to.
 
This is not a hymn, folks, however it is from a 78 record(remember those?) in 1956 featuring a young Jackie Wilson with the Dominoes. One side was Home is Where You Hang Your Heart, but my parents bought it for this song. it was heard on the same stations that played rock n roll.

 
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