Newer Hymns you actually like

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I like “Here I am Lord” a lot, also “The Spirit Sends us Forth to Serve”, all the Christmas hymns, and many others. I love to sing!🙂
 
pnewton said:
I like Eagle’s Wings, but then that scripture was always one of my favorites.
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That’s a very hard song to sing. I love the words and the melody, but I don’t like the way we sing it at Mass. We sing it very fast, it seems to me, and slowing it down would give the meaning of the words a chance to come out.
 
Feanor said:
At my wedding I had:

Lord of All Hopefulness
Immaculate Mary
All Glory Laud and Honor

A professional singer did:
Ave Maria
My Eye is on the Sparrow (my wife’s choice- it was still good just a bit different for me)

Ah! your wedding- the one time you get to control the music. . . sigh. . .
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His Eye is on the Sparrow is a wonderful old traditional gospel song. I heard Lynda Randall (a gospel singer) sing it just as I was leaving to go to the hospital for some not too pleasant tests. It really did help to keep repeating those words, and the picture of the Sacred Heart on the wall was good too.

On the other hand, I have never cared for the melody of Immaculate Mary. We sang it in grade school, a million years ago: im MACK ulate MAR y our HEARTS are on fire. I see a row of 3rd graders keeping time with their heads, pony tails flying through the holes in their little red beanies.
 
Hmmm…looks like I read this all at once, doesn’t it.

Although there are a few songs mentioned here I don’t recognize, I like most of the ones you mentioned.

We sing a different Silent Night at Christmas that I really like. It’s kind of dramatic and pretty modern, but I think it’s a nice addition to our Christmas songs. We always sing the traditional one too.

We sing one on the Epiphany called Have You Seen Three Kings, but we didn’t sing it this year. I like it, but it does sound a little like a Broadway show tune, but more Paint Your Wagon than Music Man.

Well, I can’t wait to hear more songs that people like. Usually we talk about the ones we hate. This is better.
 
Feanor said:
I also like that responsorial psalm that goes “Blessed be oh God- Beyond our wants, beyond our fears- from death into life.”
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You mean, “Shepherd me, O God, beyond my wants, beyond my fears …”

But it is not a Responsorial Psalm. It can be used as a hymn (e.g., at Preparation of the Gifts, etc.), but the words for the Responsorial Psalm must be taken from the Lectionary. The words of this hymn do not match those of the Lectionary.
 
daeve said:
That’s a very hard song to sing. I love the words and the melody, but I don’t like the way we sing it at Mass. We sing it very fast, it seems to me, and slowing it down would give the meaning of the words a chance to come out.
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I know what you mean. I slow it down and I’ve transposed it down. I am a big believer in singablity.
 
daeve said:
We sing one on the Epiphany called Have You Seen Three Kings, but we didn’t sing it this year. I like it, but it does sound a little like a Broadway show tune, but more Paint Your Wagon than Music Man.
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I am not a Broadway show tune.
 
benedictgal said:
Eat This Bread, Drink This Cup
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If you mean the Taize song, “Eat This Bread,” I have heard this same song sung in New Zealand with the words of the refrain altered thusly:

“Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood,”

Other 20th century favorites include:

Come Down, O Love Divine (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Thanks Be to God (Stephen Dean)
O God Beyond All Praising (Michael Perry)
O Beauty, Ever Ancient (Roc O’Connor)(!)
Now My Heart (John Foley)
O Christ, Our Teacher (Harry Hagan)
I Want to Walk As a Child of the Light (Kathleen Thomerson)
In Perfect Charity (Randall DeBruyn)
God Is Love (Timothy Rees)
Servant Song (Donna Marie McGargill)
The Dawn of Day (Fr. Lucien Deiss)

Too bad there aren’t more suitable Eucharistic hymns in OCP.
 
I believe “Life High the Cross” is a hymn (written early 1900’s) originally from the Anglicans.

My favorite modern ones are:

Laudate, Laudate Dominum (Walker)
Litany of the Saints (Becker)
O God Beyond All Praising
Amen, El Cuerpo de Cristo
Gloria a te, Cristo Gesu
Take and Eat
In Perfect Charity
You Are Mine
We Are Called
 
daeve said:
His Eye is on the Sparrow is a wonderful old traditional gospel song. I heard Lynda Randall (a gospel singer) sing it just as I was leaving to go to the hospital for some not too pleasant tests. It really did help to keep repeating those words, and the picture of the Sacred Heart on the wall was good too.

On the other hand, I have never cared for the melody of Immaculate Mary. We sang it in grade school, a million years ago: im MACK ulate MAR y our HEARTS are on fire. I see a row of 3rd graders keeping time with their heads, pony tails flying through the holes in their little red beanies.
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Actually, the tune for ‘Immaculate Mary’ is from the 19th century. It’s a tune from the Pyrrenees [sp?] section of France. So it might have been a tune that St. Bernadette heard.

Since I go to the TLM now, I don’t hear too many ‘modern’ hymns. But I remember once that a priest I was friends with did a solo of ‘You Are Mine’-not at Mass, but in the setting of a prayer group. I wasn’t there to hear it myself, but he had a wonderful tenor voice, and those who heard it were very moved.
 
barb_finnegan said:
Actually, the tune for ‘Immaculate Mary’ is from the 19th century. It’s a tune from the Pyrrenees [sp?] section of France. So it might have been a tune that St. Bernadette heard.

Since I go to the TLM now, I don’t hear too many ‘modern’ hymns. But I remember once that a priest I was friends with did a solo of ‘You Are Mine’-not at Mass, but in the setting of a prayer group. I wasn’t there to hear it myself, but he had a wonderful tenor voice, and those who heard it were very moved.
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That is my 10-year old little brother’s favorite hymn! 😉

As for me, I also like “Gift of Finest Wheat” (written as the theme for the '76 Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia), “Pan De Vida,” and “Lead Me, Guide Me”…in fact, I like most of the newer hymns (provided they don’t contain any lyrics questioning points of our Faith).
 
Traditional though I am, there are a fair few contemporary hymns that I’m rather fond of. A couple of years ago I was at an Anglican church in Toronto for Mass, Procession, and Benediction on Corpus Christi and we sang “One bread, one body” which I quite liked. I do like “Gather Us In” as well. I’m sure there are others.

I guess I’m a bit of a bundle of contradictions. I’d love to see Mass celebrated ad orientem sung to Haugen’s Mass of Creation .😃
 
daeve said:
On the other hand, I have never cared for the melody of Immaculate Mary. We sang it in grade school, a million years ago: im MACK ulate MAR y our HEARTS are on fire. I see a row of 3rd graders keeping time with their heads, pony tails flying through the holes in their little red beanies.
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Now I want to hear this one!

I only know the one that goes:

Immaculate Mary
Your praises we sing
You reign now in Heaven
With Jesus our King

Ave Ave Ave Maria
Ave Ave Maria
 
kage_ar said:
Now I want to hear this one!

I only know the one that goes:

Immaculate Mary
Your praises we sing
You reign now in Heaven
With Jesus our King

Ave Ave Ave Maria
Ave Ave Maria
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I always knew the one with the line “You reign now in splendor…” Strangely, OCP is where I first saw “…in Heaven” used.
 
This has nothing to do with the thread, but what is the “Tiber Swim Team?”
By the way, I enjoy “Christ Be Our Light” as far as newer hymns.
 
DeaconsSon87 said:
I always knew the one with the line “You reign now in splendor…” Strangely, OCP is where I first saw “…in Heaven” used.
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I’ve only ever known it with ‘in Heaven’ but then again for most of my life I’d only ever heard it in French.
 
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