That’s also my favorite. It’s what I grew up on as a kid, and it often brought tears to my eyes, making me realize what a miracle the Eucharist really is. I have not heard it in decades, and I miss the hymns of that time.
Speak to your Music director…us friendly ones take requests.If there is going to be music, I prefer either only instrumental or a Choir singing in Latin. But I never get it
God Bless.
Jesus My Lord, My God, My All
an oldie, but a goodie.
I’m really with you on this. I love the songs about the Eucharist. They are very emotional. But the gift of the Eucharist should not be a distracting time. So, maybe we could have a quiet time BEFORE the consecration to play the songs and then go into the most important time of the Mass??? I just love the music and wish we could hear it at an appropriate time More Often!
WHile i there are many songs i like ABOUT the Eucharist, i wish we could have no distraction at that time.
If we could all see what is really going on at the altar during the time of Consecration, we would all be on our faces. It is then that we are all present at Calvary at the moment of Jesus’ crucifixion, and He is looking at each one of us with complete love.
To be distracted in any way, even to be looking at a hymnal, is a waste of those precious moments when we are in the physical presence of God the Son, Our Lady, and all the host of Heaven. It is a time we should spend adoring Him during this most sublime gift of Grace for our souls.
Hmmm. Here we’ve gone into a lot of effort making the Mass audible. Just so we can drown it out, especially the Offertory, with hymns?I’m really with you on this. I love the songs about the Eucharist. They are very emotional. But the gift of the Eucharist should not be a distracting time. So, maybe we could have a quiet time BEFORE the consecration to play the songs and then go into the most important time of the Mass???
Mine, too. I’d much rather “all mortal flesh [kept] silence…”
As Music Director, I seldom program that song because although the words are beautiful, the music for the refrain and the verses is both slight *and *identical, and it gets numbingly repetitive after awhile.
I think our parish also has the same songs at every weekend Mass, but I never understood why. There are about 4 or 5 different choirs or singing groups, each with a different style and personality. They sing at different Masses. Why not let each group pick the songs for their Mass?
Our First Communion children learn that by memory as part of the rehearsals for their First Communions. There are six First Communion Masses over two weekends and all the kids (and *JUST *the kids) sing it by heart before they go up to receive. Then I continue and improvise upon it on the organ while they receive. It’s a beautiful and faith-filled moment.
When I was music director I switched up based on the preferences of the attendees…it was not reasonable to expect the same kind of participation. Masses tend to have very definite “demographics”.
Mine too - see my signature?One bread, one body.
Our pastor takes seriously the concept that the entire congregation is One family. (Indeed, the flags in the parking lot all say “One Bread, One Body; Our Faith, Our Family.”) So, what’s sung at one Mass is sung at ALL the Masses. I DO get to mix it up a bit with different instruments and tempos, but it’s the same songs. The result is nice; we don’t have all the older folks going to one mass with traditional music, and the teens going to another with contemporary music, and the young familys going one with kid-friendly music. They all come to worship together, and the diverse Music at each Mass reflects the diversity of the faithful in the pews.
Yes, that’s “O Sacrament Most Holy.” I put a link to a version of it in post #29. It’s quite beautiful when the children sing it. But it wouldn’t hurt for the adults to sing it now and then as well.
