[Magdalen] The Catholics...

[Joseph Cirou]

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>From: sheila ketler via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2017 3:25 PM
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>Cc: sheila ketler <ketbears at yahoo.com>
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>Hello everyoneWell I am seeing now that hymns that were familiar to me and well-used in Anglican circles are not a part ofthe Catholic way of doing things. I don't like CBW either 2 or 3... 3 is the worst of the two because they have put inseveral Haugen hymns - read out of this that are odd in tempo odd musically and unpleasant all around...I don't like Haugen but I didn't mind the Mass of Creation but it is out of use... Some familiar hymns such as Breatheon me Breath of God and Holy Holy Holy are absent from catholicism... Gather has Holy Holy Holy (tune Nicea?)and it was always used every church I ever worked at. I have put in a special request that we sing it duringCommunion not sure if the powers that be will allow it. It seems that the other two organists who work there are notallowed to comment on the music or to make suggestions and I would love to get my hands on that choir..They are small in number but they can really sing and those Psalms can be done in parts... some of them evenhave descants... and that would sound amazing...
>Happy Pentecost everyone... are we all wearing red? Do I even own anything red??
>Sheila

I have known an RC congregation that didn't know Holy, HOly, HOl,y to Nicaea. I think a number of rRC's and it at Low Mass before the Council.

I had an edition of CBW it wasn't that bad; of course if your repertory is all Marty Haugen it can get tiresome quickly.

In the parishes at which I played we used Worship I II or III and some incarnation of Gather or Gather Comprehensive from GIA. At our Liturgy of the Hours for the Priory of St. romanos we use either Worship or Hymnal 1982.  I picked the hymns at St. JOhn Vianney but even when one of the priests did, it was the one with the liturgy degree who knew what he was doing. One Christmas (poor guy,) I made him learn the Martin Mayer Weinachtsevangelium in English (by rote) We did the Gospel as a typical German Lutheran Cantata. I
d been doing it for about 30 years at that point.  I usually sang it myself, but I wanted to "share"

There are a number of traditional Catholic Hymns that come from central Europe. They may be Marian but not all. To this day a number of Lutherans and Catholics have been singing the same tune to a different text for centuries. 

Joe