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

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Do you. For example do those of you in Canada have “O Canada” in your hymnals. Or in Britain do you sing “God save the Queen” or “Jerusalem” at mass? I know there is a lot of controversy in the states about singing patriotic songs at mass.
 
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Do you. For example do those of you in Canada have “O Canada” in your hymnals. Or in Britain do you sing “God save the Queen” or “Jerusalem” at mass? I know there is a lot of controversy in the states about singing patriotic songs at mass.
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Yes, O Canada is in the Catholic Book of Worship III, our official Catholic hymnal. I’ve never heard it sung at Mass though.

However, at the Ordinariate parish, they did sing “God Save the Queen” on Victoria Day and “I Vow to Thee My Country” on Remembrance Day.
 
At our church for Memorial Day we sang “My Country Tis of Thee” at the end when the priest and the deacons were walking out
 
We sing O Canada at our parish on the Sunday nearest to Remembrance Day (Nov 11th).
 
No singing of “patriotic” songs after Mass here in the Philippines. It’s not even a practice to display the National colours up front. Displaying the Vatican flag is more prevalent, at least in Parishes I’ve visited. 🙂
 
Nope. so far. I did not hear so far any patriotic piece after the Mass.
 
I was in Canada in 1998 for Canada Day (July 1) and our parish sang “O, Canada”.

My parish in Australia has a tradition of singing our national anthem Advance Australia Fair) on Australia Day and reciting the Ode to Remembrance at the end of Mass on Anzac Day when they fall on a weekday. I’m not sure whether this is done on a Sunday - I think that occasionally it is.

I think that a patriotic song at the end of Mass, once or twice a year, is acceptable, so long as it’s not something so patriotic as to belittle visitors.
 
One parish I attend sometimes, the priest is a fan of the Queen and will sing the national anthem at the beginning of mass. Usually because of some special event. I prefer not to join in.
 
Yes, at one church we used to sing- I vow to thee my Country, and Jerusalem.

In my mother’s time those hymns were sung at her Catholic school in England. There is nothing wrong with being a little patriotic.
 
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.
 
I am in the UK and at some special events we will sing the national anthem and on remembrance day we have the last post and two minutes silence. But nothing on a regular Sunday.
 
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.
 
Not forgetting “Glorious Saint Patrick” here in Ireland that covers all bases…🙂 We are this year in the centenary of the Republic also… Interesting thought…
 
O Canada is not in the official French hymnal. I have never heard patriotic songs at Mass in Quebec. Alas O Canada would probably annoy a good number of separatists, and any nationalistic French song would do the same for federalists. The Mass is no place for such divisive politics and good sense seems to prevail by leaving that sort of thing out.

Mind you for the past 13 years I’ve been mostly attending Mass at a Benedictine monastery where all the sung music is from the Graduale Romanum…
 
Not in Ireland not even on St Patrick’s day we do say prayers in Irish language sometimes.
 
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O Canada is not in the official French hymnal. I have never heard patriotic songs at Mass in Quebec. Alas O Canada would probably annoy a good number of separatists, and any nationalistic French song would do the same for federalists. The Mass is no place for such divisive politics and good sense seems to prevail by leaving that sort of thing out.

Mind you for the past 13 years I’ve been mostly attending Mass at a Benedictine monastery where all the sung music is from the Graduale Romanum…
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The official French hymnal contains little that I’ve ever actually heard in a Canadian Francophone parish. Not surprising since it’s an international hymnal put together for all Francophone countries, unlike the CBWs which, for all their faults, were compiled specifically for English Canada.
 
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Not in Ireland not even on St Patrick’s day we do say prayers in Irish language sometimes.
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Often the priest will lapse into Irish…I know the first two word of the Lord’s Prayer in Gaelic then gave up trying…
 
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