Does anyone know of the

[MParedon]

missal/hymnal titled JourneySongs ? My parish just got it and I’m wondering if it’s ‘kosher’ so-to-speak. I know people complain about heterodox and watered down songs, but since I’m new at discerning orthodox vs. heterodox in the liturgy, etc. I was wondering if you could offer your opinions on this missal/hymnal.

thanx

 

[BrianDay]

JourneySongs is an Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) publication. Here is the website for it: ocp.org/en/products/worship/14435.php
I find that OCP tends to be very liberal, as they promote Haugen, Haas, and Shutte - the three composers I dislike the most.
I found this commentary:

OCP has a few hardbound hymnals, but sells mainly on their missalettes and disposable yearly “music issue”. Forget “Glory and Praise”, their worst product. Let’s get to the one closest-to-decent hymnal “Journeysongs, Second Edition” and their missalette/music issue. These worship aids contain very little (25-30%) in the line of standard hymn tunes. Very few of their new tunes are anything close to well-written. Much is the “Praise and Worship” style pushed by the progressive popluation. What’s worse, much of the garbage is published in full, while many tradtional texts are missing verses.

thehymnsociety.org/bbs/index.cgi?noframes;read=7

According to the commentator, it seems to be the best of a bad lot.

 

[MParedon]

I found Tantum Ergo (sp?) in it, so I thought it had possibilities…

Thanks for the link