Why do people sing "Morning has broken" in the Church?

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Is this a hymn of the Church? I know i have heard in the radio many times.
 
wisdomseeker said:
Is this a hymn of the Church? I know i have heard in the radio many times.
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Sounds like a liturgical abuse to me. Cat Stevens used to sing that. He is now a muslim. Don’t know what he was before converting to Islam.

Non-cannonical music will probably be one of the last hold outs when the new missal comes into full use.
 
Just another example of the secularization of the liturgy by some.
 
Corki said:
Are you sure it’s Morning Has Broken? We sometimes sing the Breastplate of St. Patrick to the same tune.
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What do you mean, I am sure? I know the song, besides the cantor says the title before he sings anyway. He said “go to page number…morning has broken.”

does your hymn says morning has broken too?
 
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The lyrics kind of bothers me. It is pretty much about us and not much about God… do you agree?
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What?! We just sang it this morning, and although BUNESSAN is far from my favorite tune, the words are words of praise to God for the beauty of his world.

lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the word.

Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise ev’ry morning
God’s recreation of the new day.
 
=wisdomseeker;8096180]Is this a hymn of the Church? I know i have heard in the radio many times.
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Its part og the NEW contemporary music. Not as bad as some; but not truly a hymm that raises ones mind, heart and soul to God. IT DOES make you feel good though doesent it?

God bless,
Pat
 
wisdomseeker said:
The lyrics kind of bothers me. It is pretty much about us and not much about God… do you agree?
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It is about the new morning being reminiscent of the first creation - “God’s recreation of the new day.” Credit and praise are clearly given to God in the second and third stanzas.
 
wisdomseeker said:
The lyrics kind of bothers me. It is pretty much about us and not much about God… do you agree?
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i don’t see where it is about us. It is a song of morning praise. While it isn’t my favorite song, I think it fits in better with Morning Prayer rather than Mass. In fact it is included in the Liturgy of the Hours for Wednesday of Weeks I and III. Is it any different than singing the Canticle of the Sun, St Francis’ hymn to creation?
 
PJM said:
Its part og the NEW contemporary music. Not as bad as some; but not truly a hymm that raises ones mind, heart and soul to God. IT DOES make you feel good though doesent it?

God bless,
Pat
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To tell you the truth, no, it doesn’t. It does not make me feel good that we have abandoned the beautifull hymns of the Church for something of the modern mind. We know the modern mind has produced bad fruits.

This reminds of the Scripture that says “lean not on your own understanding…” Abandoning Oral Traditions for our own understanding is a bad idea.
 
Corki said:
Are you sure it’s Morning Has Broken? We sometimes sing the Breastplate of St. Patrick to the same tune.
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The tune is a traditiinal Gaeelic tune, and the words for the lyrics Morning has Broken were written in 1931. The tune is the tune for others sets of lyrics as well.
 
perro_sarnoso said:
Sounds like a liturgical abuse to me. Cat Stevens used to sing that. He is now a muslim. Don’t know what he was before converting to Islam.

Non-cannonical music will probably be one of the last hold outs when the new missal comes into full use.
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This song is so horrible to me. I hope that it gets ousted soon. I did not know that Cat converted to Muslim.
 
Phemie said:
What?! We just sang it this morning, and although BUNESSAN is far from my favorite tune, the words are words of praise to God for the beauty of his world.

lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the word.

Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise ev’ry morning
God’s recreation of the new day.
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I hate this song. . One of the greatest benefits of my wife becoming choir director for the 6:15 mass was a knowledge I would no longer have this song imposed on me. . I mean just what is it about these blackbirds talking that fits in with Catholic theology?😃
 
wisdomseeker said:
To tell you the truth, no, it doesn’t. It does not make me feel good that we have abandoned the beautifull hymns of the Church for something of the modern mind. We know the modern mind has produced bad fruits.

This reminds of the Scripture that says “lean not on your own understanding…” Abandoning Oral Traditions for our own understanding is a bad idea.
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Are we leaning on our own understandings of what the song represents? Or of what should and shouldn’t be sung in a Mass? Or of what is a bad idea? 🤷
 
Phemie said:
What?! We just sang it this morning, and although BUNESSAN is far from my favorite tune, the words are words of praise to God for the beauty of his world.

lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon
Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the word.

Sweet the rain’s new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass.
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise ev’ry morning
God’s recreation of the new day.
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Beautiful song. Odd to think how anyone can hear beautiful words about God’s creation, and their mind roils over modernism, Islam, 9/11, liturgical abuse, self-worship, etc. If the mind is free it can see reality and be filled with joy. If it is encumbered with the shackles of ideology, agenda, or despair, then it sees only delusion and can’t enjoy even simple things. :eek:
 
Joannm said:
i don’t see where it is about us. It is a song of morning praise. While it isn’t my favorite song, I think it fits in better with Morning Prayer rather than Mass. In fact it is included in the Liturgy of the Hours for Wednesday of Weeks I and III. Is it any different than singing the Canticle of the Sun, St Francis’ hymn to creation?
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If we want to get technical, it’s much different from the Canticle of the Sun, at least in the version presented in the CBW III where, instead of praising God for his creation as we do in Morning Has Broken, we praise the creation itself by singing “Praise** to** the sun”, “Praise to the wind”.

How different is Haugen’s “Canticle of the Sun”

“Praise to the wind that blows through the trees,
the seas mighty storms, the gentlest breeze,
they blow where they will, they blow where they please,
to please the Lord.”

which gives the impression that these things have free will

from “All Creatures of our Lord and King”

“Thou rushing wind that art so strong,
Ye clouds that sail in Heaven along,
O praise Him! Alleluia!
Thou rushing morn in praise rejoice,
Ye lights of evening find a voice,
O praise Him! O praise Him! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!”
 
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