[Magdalen] Hymn choices...

[Joseph Cirou]

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>From: Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 28, 2017 7:03 PM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Hymn choices...
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>... from my experience with the RC church (of my youth) because of my mom's 
>involvement until her death last year, 'rote' plans are not unusual. At 
>every Catholic church she has ever attended only the first or first two 
>verses were ever sung. EVER. She grew to enjoy hymns in her last few decades 
>of life and it always upset her that Catholic churches never sang them all 
>the way through - and she loved the occasional visit to 'my' church 
>(Episcopal) because we *always* did sing every verse.
>
>SO, I'd have to say, that's the way 'they seem' to like it. Sadly to me, the 
>RC churches I've attended have even lost their fervor of the '70s & '80s. 
>It's like a 21st century version of what I grew up with in the 1950s - rote 
>prayers, rote formula for worship and rote music -  only now more women are 
>involved, and they couldn't do it without them in many places.
>Lynn
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>When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
>single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
>attributed to Erma Bombeck
>"Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk by 
>Richard Rohr
>"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they 
>oppress." F Douglass
>Well, it wasn't the way I did it when I music director at St. John Vianney from 2002 to 2010. I have picked and choose a few more topical verses. We usually did one or two vs (for the recessinal) and then the priest would start the recession and we would continue. We rarely omitted vss on the opening hymn, the offertory and communion would go until the action over and we sometimes didn't do the 2nd or 3rd communion hymn--much like the Episcopal The Lutherans always sang more vss but we did most of them.

At St Jude's Episcopal I had my fans because I never omitted a verse and it usually took at least two verses for the choir to process in

Joe
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>From: "sheila ketler via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2017 5:52 PM
>To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Cc: "sheila ketler" <ketbears at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Magdalen] Hymn choices...
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>> Hi everyone...So I have a question for those of you who choose hymns... I 
>> was informed that in the Catholic parish I am currently workingfor she has 
>> chosen all three years worth of hymns... Year A B and C... and then each 
>> year we just use the same groupof hymns..Is this common practice? and when 
>> I worked for the Anglican why on earth did I choose all of those hymns for 
>> all of thoseservices and not doing what she is doing???
>> Is this laziness??? or what???
>> Sheila 
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