The 60s called and they want their bad music back

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Hands up those of you who sang Carey Landry’s “The Spirit Is A-Moving” this morning.

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Eww. We sang Come Holy Ghost and Send Us Your Spirit. We also sang America the Beautiful as a recessional for Memorial Day. Funny but everyone stayed to sing all three verses.
 
Lol. That was funny you said that because we sang “Send Us Your Spirit” at the preparation of the gifts, and “The Spirit Is A-Movin’” is listed above that song. I was reading the verses and cringed. “Old ones are dreaming dreams and young people see the light.” :eek:

I liked the hymns besides “One Spirit, One Church”, which is a modern spout on “Come, Holy Ghost”. It adds a refrain that goes, “We are a pilgrim people; we are the Church of God, a family of believers, disciples of the Lord. United by the spirit, ignited by the fire, still burning through the ages, still present in our lives.”

I would rather just sing “Come, Holy Ghost”.

The other two we did were “Creator Spirit, by Whose Aid” at Communion, and “The Spirit Sends Us Forth” at the recessional.
 
A lot of the bad ones are from the 70s too, or from the 80s or 90s but continueing the same 60s/70s sound.
 
We were blessed to have polyphony today (usually we have Gregorian chant) and all three hymns were originally written at least 1,000 years ago. The English translations barely predated the hippies by two generations. Whew, close call there. :rotfl:
 
No Spirit is A Movin this morning, Praise heaven. NOT one of Carey Landry’s best!
 
We had the children’s choir this morning. Bless their sweet souls, I didn’t recognize a single one of the tunes they sang - but their little voices were enthusiastic, anyway. 🙂
 
CatholicZ09 said:
Lol. That was funny you said that because we sang “Send Us Your Spirit” at the preparation of the gifts, and “The Spirit Is A-Movin’” is listed above that song. I was reading the verses and cringed. “Old ones are dreaming dreams and young people see the light.” :eek:

I liked the hymns besides “One Spirit, One Church”, which is a modern spout on “Come, Holy Ghost”. It adds a refrain that goes, “We are a pilgrim people; we are the Church of God, a family of believers, disciples of the Lord. United by the spirit, ignited by the fire, still burning through the ages, still present in our lives.” .
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I always liked it. What’s wrong with the refrain?
 
They set the sequence text to Ode to Joy. It’s not unheard of, probably due to musical sloth or something. I must admit, I cringed. :rolleyes:

Surely there are English arrangements of the original Gregorian chant somewhere?

Additionally, I have an issue with the singing of patriotic songs during the Mass (as well as the hanging of non-Catholic flags in the nave or - heaven forbid - the sanctuary :eek:), but that’s for another day. 🙂
 
Phemie said:
Hands up those of you who sang Carey Landry’s “The Spirit Is A-Moving” this morning.

:rolleyes:
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We had Come Holy Ghost for the opening hymn but we were given Carey’s “Gentle Woman” for the communion hymn. AND for offertory it was “peace is flowing like a river”, and for the closing, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”.

Great minds think alike, Phemie. I was SO tempted to tell the organist the very same thing as your thread title, but forced myself to offer up my suffering instead!!😃
 
For the after-communion “hymn,” we had “God Bless America.” And the recessional was, “America the Beautiful.” :mad:

IMO church is NOT the place for patriotic songs. They are not about God directly, and I was rather astounded that “God Bless America” was used as the post-communion hymn. It is not a hymn, and it was very difficult to properly pray with such a jarring music choice being used.

:mad:

We get the same songs around July 4th and Veteran’s Day. Someone is trying to be patriotic, but what about the parishioners who aren’t from the USA?

:mad:
 
TheRealJuliane said:
For the after-communion “hymn,” we had “God Bless America.” And the recessional was, “America the Beautiful.” :mad:

IMO church is NOT the place for patriotic songs. They are not about God directly, and I was rather astounded that “God Bless America” was used as the post-communion hymn. It is not a hymn, and it was very difficult to properly pray with such a jarring music choice being used.

:mad:

We get the same songs around July 4th and Veteran’s Day. Someone is trying to be patriotic, but what about the parishioners who aren’t from the USA?

:mad:
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It is fine to mention things like the U.S. Memorial Day and the hardships veteran’s have faced, etc, but Nationalism in any form should be avoided, IMHO. The Church is universal, even if it has national institutions to help guide it in a particular nation.

If we look back at the co-opting of the Church for Nationalist ends, we need only look back on the wars this world has seen in the 19th & 20th centuries, where priests blessed the efforts of people killing each other on both sides of conflict.
 
Justice_Mercy said:
If we look back at the co-opting of the Church for Nationalist ends, we need only look back on the wars this world has seen in the 19th & 20th centuries, where priests blessed the efforts of people killing each other on both sides of conflict.
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This is a sad fact that often breaks my heart every time I read of it, and it’s not limited to the 19th and 20th centuries, mind. 😦
 
We sang (IMHO) the best Pentecost hymn, Come Down, O Love Divine.
 
liturgyluver said:
We sang (IMHO) the best Pentecost hymn, Come Down, O Love Divine.
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I’m jealous. 😃

I’ve never heard of “The Spirit’s A-moving”. Maybe I should be happy I didn’t?

We did “Come Holy Ghost”, Pentecost text for “Hail Thee Festival Day”, “America the Beautiful” and :eek: “The Battle Hymn Republic”. That wasn’t the choice of the music director who disagreed with it. The liturgy director chose it… another example of not immediately assuming the music is always chosen by the musicians. We did do a chant for the sequence in English, though.
 
Sarabande said:
I’m jealous. 😃

I’ve never heard of “The Spirit’s A-moving”. Maybe I should be happy I didn’t?
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You can listen to it here. The first part is a guitar lesson to teach how to play it for Mass (no kidding!) but he starts singing at the 3:50 point.
 
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