Hymn/Song not used for an extremely long time

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pnewton said:
This Sunday I got to use For All the Saints, which I have not used in years (I keep missing All Saints’ Day)
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If played on the organ, the tune (Sine Nomine) has a delightful pedal counter melody. The hymn itself has like 11 verses.
 
Memaw said:
While we do still have many of the beautiful hymns at our Church, one I would LOVE to hear again is “Mother at Thy Feet is Kneeling”. Our Choir used to sing it occasionally on Marian Feasts, but we now have a small singing groups and they never sing it. Haven’t heard it in about 10 years. God Bless, Memaw
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I love this one too, but I think it was discouraged as too sentimental after Vatican 11. Another one I never hear is I love thee Oh Mary.
 
TigerKitty said:
Just curioius…Why is Gather Us In the “cookie recipe” song?
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Someone posted these lyrics here on CAF last year:

The Singing Cookie Recipe Song

Here in this place, the oven’s preheating,
Now is our hunger banished away,
See in this space, the mixer is whirring,
Making us snacks for to brighten the day.
Code: 
Gather them in, the sugar and butter
Gather them in, the eggs and the flour;
Wash and prepare each cute cookie cutter
Have them at hand for the time and the hour.
We are the young–and baking’s a mystery,
We are the old–we’ve done this before,
Careful, say moms throughout human history:
Sugar’s a mess to clean up from the floor.
Code: 
Gather them in, the salt and vanilla
Gather them in, the rest as you know;
Add soda too, but just a scintilla,
Stir it and make it to form a soft dough.
Here you must chill the dough till it’s ready:
Here you must roll and cut–the next phase–
Here you must bake, with hands that are steady,
All of the shapes in the oven on trays.
Code: 
Give us to eat the golden-brown cookies
Give us to drink some milk with them, too,
Nourish us well, the chefs and the rookies
Make everybody clean up when we're through.
 
Gertabelle said:
Someone posted these lyrics here on CAF last year:

The Singing Cookie Recipe Song

Here in this place, the oven’s preheating,
Now is our hunger banished away,
See in this space, the mixer is whirring,
Making us snacks for to brighten the day.
Code: 
Gather them in, the sugar and butter
Gather them in, the eggs and the flour;
Wash and prepare each cute cookie cutter
Have them at hand for the time and the hour.
We are the young–and baking’s a mystery,
We are the old–we’ve done this before,
Careful, say moms throughout human history:
Sugar’s a mess to clean up from the floor.
Code: 
Gather them in, the salt and vanilla
Gather them in, the rest as you know;
Add soda too, but just a scintilla,
Stir it and make it to form a soft dough.
Here you must chill the dough till it’s ready:
Here you must roll and cut–the next phase–
Here you must bake, with hands that are steady,
All of the shapes in the oven on trays.
Code: 
Give us to eat the golden-brown cookies
Give us to drink some milk with them, too,
Nourish us well, the chefs and the rookies
Make everybody clean up when we're through.
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Err what? Aren’t catholic hymns traditionally not about foodstuffs? I have rarely encounterd such oddness
 
JimmyG88 said:
Err what? Aren’t catholic hymns traditionally not about foodstuffs? I have rarely encounterd such oddness
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I believe the lyrics were created by someone who really, really, really hated the song “Gather Us In.”

Personally, I also hate that song, so I found these lyrics delightful…

I also like cookies 👍
 
Gertabelle said:
I believe the lyrics were created by someone who really, really, really hated the song “Gather Us In.”

Personally, I also hate that song, so I found these lyrics delightful…

I also like cookies 👍
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Never heard gather us in either which doesn’t sound very Cathoilc either
 
JimmyG88 said:
Never heard gather us in either which doesn’t sound very Cathoilc either
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Well its writen by Marty Haugen who was once Lutheran, but is now United Church of Christ, so not sure it is a Catholic song. The main complaint about the song it it alludes to heaven, the Eucharist, and other parts of the faith without ever saying so. It is also focused on us, the laity, rather than on Christ. It’s a song that I am joyously glad I haven’t heard in a while. 😉
 
We can’t even have one positive thread about great old songs without the hating on those not some do not like. 😦
 
MaryT777 said:
I haven’t heard Faith of Our Fathers for years.
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Same here.

One I’ve only heard maybe once or twice in the last decade is Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All. I also haven’t heard Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones in a long time. Would have been a great hymn for the Feast of All Saints last Sunday.

I also have only hear ***Praise to the Holiest in the Height ***and Tantum Ergo or Pange Lingua (in Latin) sung once or twice in a territorial parish. Finally I haven’t heard Daily, Daily Sing to Mary at a Marian feast in quite some time.
 
Shepherd of Souls has not been used in a while.
Recently *We Are the Light of the World * was sung. This hymn had not been used in quite some time.
 
My home parish uses the same songs from the Gather hymnal year after year. The parish where I was married at, and often attend, plays at least two songs that I have never heard before.
 
We sang Shepherd of Souls a while back, and it was so great to hear that hymn. It’s a short hymn, but the words and melody are so beautiful. I haven’t heard Adoro te Devote in ages.
 
I don’t know why stupid 70s/80s folk tunes are the universal norm for “sacred” music in the West. “Oh, Vatican II legalized guitars, harmonicas and banjos! Now let’s gather around this table, eat some bread, drink some wine, and go make a difference in the world!” Gregorian Chant and organ are still the official standard. The Church has 1500+ years of music at Her disposal… why not utilize it?
 
Gertabelle said:
“Sing to the Mountains”
“Gather Us In” (also known as the Cookie Recipe song)
“Though the Mountains May Fall”
“Glory and Praise to Our God”

Well, pretty much anything written in the past 45 years.

And anything that has syncopation in the rhythm.

And anything that you might hear on K-Love.

🤷 What can I say, we’re pretty traditional in our liturgies, and our “children’s choir” (everyone between the ages of 10 and 23…except me, of course) enjoys singing the traditional hymns and in Latin. 😃

“Soul of My Savior” and “O Sacrament Most Holy” are staple communion hymns for us by the way.

God bless y’all.
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Now I have to go confess Envy.

Can I commute to your parish from L.A. County?

Also, “Faith of Our Fathers” was used quite a bit at my old parish. Unfortunately, at my new parish, it seems that even the old timers at daily Mass don’t know it.
 
I think we fondly imagine 1600 years of Gregorian Chant before Varican II. When in fact the music at mass often consisted of the local brass band (particularly in Italy) with various instruments that Pius X wasn’t keen on. I personally dislike the Music that highly regarded classical composers set the mass to. Not to my taste at all
 
There is no music on earth that will please all people. It’s simply not possible.

Because of that, I am grateful we have a hierarchy to tell us specifically what our rights and duties are in this area.

My problems with the newer music is that it tramples my rights and blocks my duties.

I cannot fully participate as directed when the music is written for trained singers who are standing up, not average joes who are sometimes sitting down.

I certainly cannot participate when the words and/or music for these songs is not provided.

I find it a battle to participate when I take note of some of the lyrics.

I, personally, have to fight to find peace when the music hypes me up like a musical number from Teen Nickelodean.

I am willing to endure any style of music the hierarchy tells me to endure. However, I do not appreciate having disobedient personal preferences shoved down my throat - and being forced to pay extra for the torture (which is the case in my parish).
 
ProVobis said:
Precisely.

And then they are always changing. The weekly Top Forty songs of the 60’s and 70’s demonstrated that point.
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Yet we have today songs that are written, a few, that will stay and become staples for the future generations. The present is a sifter for great music, relegating mediocrity to history. When we think of the great hymns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, for example, there are hundreds of forgotten hymns for every Amazing Grace. I like to speculate on that which we use today, and even find inspiring, wondering what will still inspire in the Twenty-second Century.
 
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