'He's got the whole world in his hands' sung after communion

[promethius]

Actually, forms of it does date back to the church fathers, and to judaism. The jews would frequently chant the psalms, and like many parts of judaism, the christians took it an ran with it. Chant has always been part of the church’s worship and liturgy.

Incorrect. Gregorian chant is, even going with the earlier than 10th C. view, a carolingian form of roman and Gallican (read: barbarian, not Jewish) chants.

Second, it was believed until recently that chant was inhereted from the Jews, so I can see why you still hold to this myth. As a person with very traditionalist rabbi friends, and who has attended synagogue more than a few times, I concur (as do they and most scholars) that this myth is untrue… especially considering that the Jews did not even READ the psalms during worship for several centuries following the destruction of the first temple.

As I said, traditional Jewish music is more akin to hymns than to chant. Anyone who’s listened to a singing of the Na Hishtana or the Dayenu at a passover Seder would know this. (and yes, I realize that, like chant, the first FULL organization of all 15 verses of the Dayenu appears in the first medieval Haggedah, but that it too predates this full recording)

 

[RosalieM]

plain and simple,
I am not for guitars at the mass

to another person who commented, I do not mind having some other hymns (Holy God We Praise Thy Name, For All the Saints, etc) replace Gregorian Chant but I think that the importance and beauty of The Chant should be stressed more.

There’s a 9 a.m. Sunday Gregorian Chant mass at my parish. I go to it for my weekend mass as often as I can. It is an inspirational knockout. It can’t be replaced. It unites me with Catholics who lived centuries ago in different places. I love it.
Other hymns are also sung for the entrance and recessional; but during the mass, it’s all Gregorian chant.

 

[TheMc]

There’s a 9 a.m. Sunday Gregorian Chant mass at my parish. I go to it for my weekend mass as often as I can. It is an inspirational knockout. It can’t be replaced. It unites me with Catholics who lived centuries ago in different places. I love it.
Other hymns are also sung for the entrance and recessional; but during the mass, it’s all Gregorian chant.

You don’t realize how blessed you are.

 

[Bobby_Jim]

No, I would not be happy if my parish began singing “He’s Got the Whole World…” & clapping their hands…

If it’s like many parishes, you get half the people clapping on “1” and “3” and the other half clapping on “2” and “4”, with a smattering of people off a half-beat one way or another until the clapping sort of dies out… ugh, I really don’t like the clapping!

 

[fred_conty]

I love the song, but not after communion. Besides if it is sung after communion, then
the words should be changed to “We have the whole world in our hands”.

Just a thought.

 

[I_Thirst]

I love the song, but not after communion. Besides if it is sung after communion, then
the words should be changed to “We have the whole world in our hands”.

Just a thought.

What if you receive on the tongue?

 

[TheMc]

What if you receive on the tongue?

I doubt anyone singing that song would be…

 

[I_Thirst]

I doubt anyone singing that song would be…

Good point.

 

[TheMc]

Good point.

But your point still stands.

 

[promethius]

But your point still stands.

My thought was that if it’s sung AFTER communion, NO ONE should have the Eucharist still in their hands (with, perhaps, the exception of the priest while he purifies the vessels).

Maybe the words could be modified to “we’ve got the whole world, in our tummies!”

 

[I_Thirst]

My thought was that if it’s sung AFTER communion, NO ONE should have the Eucharist still in their hands (with, perhaps, the exception of the priest while he purifies the vessels).

Maybe the words could be modified to “we’ve got the whole world, in our tummies!”

Don’t encourage them!