Search for New Hymnals w/ Gender Specific Pronouns

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I am a member of our parish choir. I was talking to our priest last night at the parish council meeting and we were discussing how he got rid of the Oregon Catholic Press books because they have been removing the masculine pronoun for God and therefore weakening the Catholic theology.

We currently have some version of the Vatican II Hymnal (this one) which has a very small selection of songs and nothing for any harmony for our choir so we have been using a lot of the old OCP stuff because it’s “prettier” and we have a large selection to choose from. This has been leaving the congregation without any music to read from.

The parish council decided to look into purchasing new hymnals. Father suggested the St. Michael Hymnal or Lumen Christi Hymnal.

Are there any other good Hymnals with gender specific pronouns?
 
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I am a member of our parish choir. I was talking to our priest last night at the parish council meeting and we were discussing how he got rid of the Oregon Catholic Press books because they have been removing the masculine pronoun for God and therefore weakening the Catholic theology.

We currently have some version of the Vatican II Hymnal (this one) which has a very small selection of songs and nothing for any harmony for our choir so we have been using a lot of the old OCP stuff because it’s “prettier” and we have a large selection to choose from. This has been leaving the congregation without any music to read from.

The parish council decided to look into purchasing new hymnals. Father suggested the St. Michael Hymnal or Lumen Christi Hymnal.

Are there any other good Hymnals with gender specific pronouns?
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Doesn’t OCP carry the Graduale Romanum?
 
The Worship IV hymnal from GIA has many hymns written to familiar hymn tunes.
 
Unfortunately, the Worship hymnals of GIA have gone over to inclusive language, not like their wonderful old Worship II. The St. Michael Hymnal is a great hymnal, and it includes some of the more popular modern pieces because they realize that there would be too much of an uproar in many parishes if a hymnal were purchased that didn’t have them. You really should take a look at the St. Isaac Jogues Hymnal that is just coming out. Here is a link:
ccwatershed.org/jogues/ This hymnal is stunningly beautiful, and is a pew missal as well as a hymnal. It also includes all of the graduals beautifully and reverently set in English for each Sunday and major feast day. This hymnal is produced by a group of young Catholic musicians. If they represent the future of music in the Catholic Church in American, then the future is bright indeed.
 
I am very pleased with the St. Michael, 4th Edition (the current edition). It is more hymn-oriented than Vatican II and has more metrical Mass parts, but also has all the main Latin chants that every parish should know. Nearly all of the OCP-type pieces of the 3rd Edition have been removed.

The Vatican II is more chant-oriented, but has many great hymns as well. Adoremus, the oldest of the new Catholic hymnals, has a good mix of hymns and chants, and is known to many because it is used on EWTN’s televised Mass.

Aside from OCP, other hymnals which use vertical and horizontal inclusive language include GIA, WLP/Paluch, and the cringeworthy American Catholic Hymnal (which even altered the fourth verse of the Star Spangled Banner to remove the “men”).
 
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Aside from OCP, other hymnals which use vertical and horizontal inclusive language include GIA, WLP/Paluch, and the cringeworthy American Catholic Hymnal (which even altered the fourth verse of the Star Spangled Banner to remove the “men”).
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…wow…

Thanks everyone for the helpful suggestions!
 
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