Favourite Song?

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What is your favourite Mass song and why?

I’m still thinking about my favourite, so I’ll get back to you later about my favourite song.
 
Here I Am Lord… I like this song because it is a way I can respond to my call to the priesthood. It provides the words that sometimes I cannot speak out loud to God.
 
Oh man…well, I think I’m actually gonna have to go with two: “Come, Labor On” and “Be Still, My Soul.”

The first one I just think is so perfect in describing Christian discipleship, and the second is so uplifting and hopeful.

Oh yes, and “Nearer, My God to Thee” is up there on my list of favorites as well.
 
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Be Not Afraid& Seek Ye First& You Are Near. Hmmm, I’ll stick with those for now.
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Good selection… If I were to put Praise and Worship music it, I might add one or two songs, but I really don’t like that music during mass.
 
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Good selection… If I were to put Praise and Worship music it, I might add one or two songs, but I really don’t like that music during mass.
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I chose those songs(You are Near, Be Not afraid, Seek Ye First) as my favourite because the lyrics remind me that God is there and also the things He says, and the music is nice too.
 
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I chose those songs as my favourite because the lyrics remind me that God is there and also the things He says, and the music is nice too.
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If I could add one Praise and Worship song… NOT DURING MASS… it would be No One Like you… I love that song 👍
 
Alleluia, Sing to Jesus!

I just love the way it flows, and the text is beautiful, too!
 
The Our Father fist and formost, but then…

O Virgin Pure
by St. Nectarios
Plagal First Tone (Tone 5)

Refrain: O Rejoice, Bride Unwedded.

O Virgin pure, immaculate/ O Lady Theotokos
O Virgin Mother, Queen of all/ and fleece which is all dewy
More radiant than the rays of sun/ and higher than the heavens
Delight of virgin choruses/ superior to Angels.
Much brighten than the firmament/ and pure than the sun’s light
More holy than the multitude/ of all the heav’nly armies.

O Rejoice, Bride Unwedded.

O Ever Virgin Mary/ of all the world, the Lady
O bride all pure, immaculate/ O Lady Panagia
O Mary bride and queen of all/ our cause of jubilation
Majestic maiden, Queen of all/ O our most holy Mother
More hon’rable than Cherubim/ beyond compare more glorious
than immaterial Seraphim/ and greater than angelic thrones.

O Rejoice, Bride Unwedded.

Rejoice, O son of Cherubim/ Rejoice, O hymn of angels
Rejoice, O ode of Seraphim/ the joy of the archangels
Rejoice, O peace and happiness/ the harbor of salvation
O sacred chamber of the Word/ flower of incorruption
Rejoice, delightful paradise/ of blessed life eternal
Rejoice, O wood and tree of life/ the fount of immortality

O Rejoice, Bride Unwedded.

I supplicate you, Lady/ now do I call upon you
And I beseech you, Queen of all/ I beg of you your favor
Majestic maiden, spotless one/ O Lady Panagia
I call upon you fervently/ O sacred, hallowed temple
Assist me and deliver me/ protect me from the enemy
And make me an inheritor/ of blessed life eternal.

O Rejoice, Bride Unwedded.

As sung by monks…
imr.gr/multimedia/Agni_parthene_simonopetra.mp3
 
The contemporary music is uplifting. I lead the music at a contemporary “teen” Mass. I am willing to put my guitar away if asked to. Although I have enjoyed the musical style for years, I do see how the musical genre does not match or jive, if you will, with the Solemnity of the Mass. We have sing-a-longs now every once in awhile on Friday nights with drums, and instruments plugged in. (in the social Hall)

From Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Exhortation SACRAMENTUM CARITATIS

Liturgical song
  1. In the ars celebrandi, liturgical song has a pre-eminent place. (126) Saint Augustine rightly says in a famous sermon that “the new man sings a new song. Singing is an expression of joy and, if we consider the matter, an expression of love” (127). The People of God assembled for the liturgy sings the praises of God. In the course of her two-thousand-year history, the Church has created, and still creates, music and songs which represent a rich patrimony of faith and love. This heritage must not be lost. Certainly as far as the liturgy is concerned, we cannot say that one song is as good as another. Generic improvisation or the introduction of musical genres which fail to respect the meaning of the liturgy should be avoided. As an element of the liturgy, song should be well integrated into the overall celebration (128). Consequently everything – texts, music, execution – ought to correspond to the meaning of the mystery being celebrated, the structure of the rite and the liturgical seasons (129). Finally, while respecting various styles and different and highly praiseworthy traditions, I desire, in accordance with the request advanced by the Synod Fathers, that Gregorian chant be suitably esteemed and employed (130) as the chant proper to the Roman liturgy (131).
 
Toss up…

For morning masses, as an entrance, Morning Has Broken.

Lo, How a Rose E’r Blooming
Ubi Caritas

and two Ruthenian Songs (old translation):
This New Commandment
Give me your body
This New Commandment (Ruthenian):
|: This New Commandment I give to you 😑
|: That you love one another 😑
Even as I have loved you

|: By this will you show the world the truth 😑
|: That you are my disciples 😑
By your love for eachother.
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Give Me Your Body (Ruthenian):
Give me your Body, oh Christ
Savior and sovereign, oh Guest divine
|: Come and Dwell in my soul,
Christ, living God now and forever 😑
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I really like "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, " to the tune, “Nettleton,” which I believe is also used to “Sing a New Church.” That one I can do without. The original Church is just fine with me.

Anything sung to the tune, “Thaxted.” I’m having a senior moment now and cannot remember the words we use with it.

For Praise & Worship, “Refiner’s Fire.”

But I wait *all year *for the First Sunday of Advent to sing these words to the tune, “Helmsley:”

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending,
once for our salvation slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.

Every eye shall now behold him,
robed in dreadful majesty;
those who set at nought and sold him,
pierced, and nailed him to the tree,
deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
shall the true Messiah see.

Those dear tokens of his passion
still his dazzling body bears,
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshipers;
with what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture
gaze we on those glorious scars!

Now redemption, long expected,
see in solemn pomp appear;
all his saints, by man rejected,
now shall meet him in the air:
Alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
See the day of God appear!

Yea, amen! let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory;
claim the kingdom for thine own:
Alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.
Words: John Cennick (1718-1755), 1752;
as altered by Charles Wesley (1707-1788), 1758;
and then altered by Martin Madan (1726-1790), 1760

Betsy
 
“Gather Us In.”

Go ahead and laugh.

But I love this song. It makes me grateful that God “gathered me in” to His Church, and it reminds me to pray for of all my Protestant relatives and friends who are still outside the Church.

I also love the haunting melody in 3.
 
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