Is Dan Schutte's hymn "Here I Am, Lord" appropriate for Mass?

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It’s about God, not you. He is the Lord of Sea and Sky.
If you don’t like the song fine.
It’s almost never sung anymore anyway.
 
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30 years and I was young and searching, a lay Franciscan volunteer in San Francisco. Fond memory flashback!
 
Really - - it’s almost never sung anymore?
pianistclare said:
It’s about God, not you. He is the Lord of Sea and Sky.
If you don’t like the song fine.
It’s almost never sung anymore anyway.
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How do you know that? For all the parishes that all of us posters are from, as well? 🤣🤣🤣😂

“He the Lord of Sea and Sky
He has heard his people cry
All who dwell in dark and sin
His hand will save…”

Easy enough to just substitute as one sings…🤣
 
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This thread - - I can’t. LOL. Seriously?!
 
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I thought the same -
Samuel. I taught my little boy that whenever I called him, he was supposed to answer like Samuel and say, “Here I am!” (he hid in a clothing store and had 20 people searching stores and the streets for him. He was in big trouble.
 
It’s classic Maxirad: ask a hyper-specific question, provide no context, fade into background as people mill about in conversational darkness.
 
Which one?
There are many different compositions and songs with that name.
 
Wow! I think this is the first civil discussion about this song in the history of CAF! 😲

I liked it when it first came out. I’m kind of tired of it now. The people seem to join in singing more for it than for some other songs on the few times it is still used on a Sunday.
 
When our priest was in seminary, he was made fun of by other seminarians because he didn’t speak English well (he had just moved to the US from Mexico). He decided he was going to leave the seminary because of it. The morning he was going to tell the archbishop, this song was sung at mass. It reminded him of his calling, and that even though he experienced discrimination, his calling was worth it 🙂

I also started discerning the priesthood recently, partly because of a tug I feel in my heart whenever I hear this song.
 
In what world would paraphrased Scripture set to a beautiful, reverent tune be inappropriate for worship?

 
Hi
We sign it often.
In Christ’s Love
Tweedlealice

Usually at communion
 
Miracles do happen; a thread with civil discussion on this thread!~ Alleluia
 
We pray for vocations all the time; if this song tugs at your heart it could be God’s way of speaking to you through song. Prayers for you as you discern a call to the priesthood. God bless.
 
When i spent two years after my divorce discerning whether I should covert to Lutheran or not, this would have been my “theme song.” At the Saturday “contemporary service” it was a song often sung often often. Never at Sunday Divine Worship where it was the organ and more traditional Lutheran hymns.

I grew sick of it with the Sat Night contemporary guitar Mass week after week albeit I still do like the song as I don’t hear it as often. It was a staple there and not to beautiful, reverent music, but to strummin’ guitars.
 
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It’s an insipid, trite composition that was all the rage for quite some time in some parishes…I get the sense it’s not nearly the Top Ten hit it once was.

It is a perfect example of the so-called “Voice of God” composition that makes the congregation sing something as if they were God. The scholar Thomas Day has written on how this phenomenon…foreign to the tradition of the Roman liturgy…has contributed in no small part to the decline of liturgical culture.

The Church used to patronize Palestrina and Mozart. Now, Dan Schutte.
 
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