Posters from other countries, do you sing patriotic songs at mass?

[porthos11]

As a Canadian, I would personally be fine with both O Canada and God Save the Queen *after * holy mass on special occasions - say on or near Remembrance Day, Victoria Day, or Canada Day. Both the national anthem (O Canada) and the royal anthem (God Save the Queen) include implied prayers to the Christian God, so not completely inappropriate.

On Remembrance Day, I would have absolutely no objection to “I Vow to Thee My Country” as a recessional.

 

[biffoqueen]

Often the priest will lapse into Irish…I know the first two word of the Lord’s Prayer in Gaelic then gave up trying…

we say the our father and hail mary in irish most sundays and it is lovely sometimes if there are tourists in the congregation they get very confused. we learned them in school along with a few more prayers so its nice to say them.

 

[BartholomewB]

Here in Brazil I’ve never heard any patriotic songs sung in a church, neither before mass, nor during, nor after. I wouldn’t expect to find anything of that kind in the hymnal, but I’ll have a look through it on Sunday to make sure.

No flags, either.

Our hymnal runs to 340 pages and contains 1870 hymns, an average of five to the page. I glanced at as many of them as I had time for, possibly a couple of hundred hymns, and as far as I could tell the answer, as I expected, seems to be No.