Subcommittee on Music and the Liturgy

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Report of the Subcommittee on Music and the Liturgy

The subcommittee’s mission:
Sung texts and liturgical hymns have a particular importance and efficacy. Especially on Sunday, the “Day of the Lord”, the singing of the faithful gathered for the celebration of Holy Mass, no less than the prayers, the readings and the homily, express in an authentic way the message of the Liturgy while fostering a sense of common faith and communion in charity. If they are used widely by the faithful, they should remain relatively fixed so that confusion among the people may be avoided.

Within five years from the publication of this Instruction, the Conferences of Bishops, necessarily in collaboration with the national and diocesan Commissions and with other experts, shall provide for the publication of a directory or repertory of texts intended for liturgical singing. This document shall be transmitted for the necessary recognitio to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

The two main concerns:
*Individual songs should be consonant with Catholic teaching and free from theological error

*The repertoire of liturgical songs in any given setting should not manifest a collective bias against Catholic theological elements.
Theological concerns:
*Is there a sufficient attention to the Trinity and to the Trinitarian structure of Catholic beliefs and teachings?

More….

sognodargento.blogspot.com/2006/03/report-of-subcommittee-on-music-and.html
 
We have two archbishops in this country who are going to be awfully busy reviewing music
 
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frommi:
We have two archbishops in this country who are going to be awfully busy reviewing music
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I’ll help 😃
 
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Brendan:
I’ll help 😃
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Me too. Let me get a head start… “Awesome God” Gone. When I roll up my sleeves, I ain’t puttin’ on the Ritz either. :rolleyes:
 
This is the best news I have had in awhile!

Be gone, “they’ll Know we Are Christians” and We Are the Light of the world."

Think they will fix some of the terrible translations, like the examples in the slide show?
 
are they going to take nominations from the faithful for lyricists we would like to see banned, excommunicated, anethamatized or otherwised subject to the Inquisition?
 
I think Haugen and Haas have written some nice musical settings of the Psalms for the Gather Book. Beyond that… I think pretty much everything else is dreadful.
 
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MusicMan:
I think Haugen and Haas have written some nice musical settings of the Psalms for the Gather Book. Beyond that… I think pretty much everything else is dreadful.
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You mean like Psalm 95, where they change the words from “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts” to “If today you hear *God’s *voice, harden not your hearts.” [emphasis added]

A little but of “inclusive language” that some people might not argue with. Only in this case, the Psalm is used in the liturgy between readings, and the Haugen/Haas rendition isn’t an approved translation (much like everything else in Gather). It’s not an isolated case.
 
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muledog:
You mean like Psalm 95, where they change the words from “If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts” to “If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts.” [emphasis added]

A little but of “inclusive language” that some people might not argue with. Only in this case, the Psalm is used in the liturgy between readings, and the Haugen/Haas rendition isn’t an approved translation (much like everything else in Gather). It’s not an isolated case.
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You misunderstand. I said I liked the musical setting. I didn’t say anything about the text. Foolishness like this is easily corrected. And this specific one I did correct the last time we sang this Psalm.

I admit that I am not always as meticulous about these kinds of corrections, but I do catch some of them.

I happen to like the melodies and the harmonic progressions in several of these Psalms. I also happen to like the melodies of Gregorian Chant. Go figure.
 
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MusicMan:
You misunderstand. I said I liked the musical setting. I didn’t say anything about the text. Foolishness like this is easily corrected. And this specific one I did correct the last time we sang this Psalm.

I admit that I am not always as meticulous about these kinds of corrections, but I do catch some of them.

I happen to like the melodies and the harmonic progressions in several of these Psalms. I also happen to like the melodies of Gregorian Chant. Go figure.
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I like many of the musical settings in Gather as well, but not in a liturgical setting.

There’s nothing worse than the celebrant chanting the per ipsum, et cum ipso, et in ipso as it is printed in the missal, only to have the cantor/choir respond with a post-modern gospel rendition of the Amen that lasts two minutes!

Mixing different genres of music during Mass is like mixing oil and water together - it just doesn’'t work.
 
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muledog:
I like many of the musical settings in Gather as well, but not in a liturgical setting.

There’s nothing worse than the celebrant chanting the per ipsum, et cum ipso, et in ipso as it is printed in the missal, only to have the cantor/choir respond with a post-modern gospel rendition of the Amen that lasts two minutes!

Mixing different genres of music during Mass is like mixing oil and water together - it just doesn’'t work.
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Again, I only said I liked the settings of the Psalms. I don’t see a ton of harm in having a more “modern” harmonic setting of the Psalm but then have a more traditional setting of the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The Congregation’s response to what the priest chants should match, however. There is no excuse for responding to a traditional chant with the “gospel” Amen.
 
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