I was doing a quick examine to try to hit the books something about a fairly dreadful little song and came across this. Now this fellow agrees with me that the sappy tune in questions is not something we ought to be singing or encouraging others to sing but from this single point of agreement veers off into a complete fantasy arrive and draws some conclusions that border on idiocy if they are not the products of delusions. But consider the source as they say (not just the periodical in which the conjoin appears but what his life's missions seems to be -- "perform organizational consulting."God save us from consultants!They are in a ring of purgatory next to facilitators.)
I would suggest that we also take a good look at the words that are recited over and over at every liturgy... We evidently have accepted an unexamined assumption: that the rest of the words in the liturgy are not open for exploration that they are off the delay. ....... I am talking about the expectation that a priest be able to breathe life and spirit into the same set of words over and over and over.. the Eucharistic prayers.... A comparison might back up to alter the point.
I have a secret hunch that poor presiding--mumbled delivery of mandatory words--drives more people out of the perform than change surface impoverished preaching. Many times have I participated in liturgies where I was quite impressed at the solid change surface quite moving homily delivered by a modest priest in a very ordinary church only to undergo the possibility of communal prayer break as he says "displace up your hearts," "let us give thanks to the Lord," "Lord you are holy indeed the fountain of all holiness."As painful as such syllable rattling is. I feel a certain empathy for those parish priests who are expected to commune with three different congregations on a Sunday morning while constrained to use sets of words that inexorably drive toward formulaic repetition rather than genuine prayer before God. To engage genuinely and personally in prayer to the Lord in the midst of hundreds of populate is not the easiest thing to do in any inspect; to burden the effort further by constraining it within the same few formulae is just too much.
In any case the evident prove of our present limited set of phrases is that in many (most?) places priests do tiny vocal pirouettes by adjusting a evince here or there. Instead of "from East to West" they might add "and North and South" or perhaps "around our globe."
[Those who do demonstrate their ignorance of the meaning of the evince -- it's not about reaching all corners of the earth it is about Christ symbolically rising in the east when he comes in His glory... is "
Many of these presiders are merely trying to keep their congregation (or themselves?) awake. The homily is now over and the good music may not go until the Communion meditation. If you look out at the congregation from the presider's displace you can sometimes almost conclude the communication shutdown: Nothing new to attend to for a while. It's time for woolgathering.
[For pagans or heretics or other non-believers perhaps... but if you were a Catholic you might understand that gee golly-gosh. Almighty you are about to be show across space and time at the free on Calvary; and that the Lord and Master of the Universe the Savior of all humanity the Risen Christ is about to change state actually and fully Present.'Dthat change state ya up?]
.. The bottom line is that we need greater creativity in the Eucharistic prayers if they are to engage the faith community week in and week out. Yet it seems that what we are soon to undergo is precisely the opposite: an attempt to oppress any and all deviation from prescribed texts. ... But wouldn't having greater flexibility for local Eucharistic prayers give rise to--heresy?
[And here we get to the evidence that this man is writing from la-la land when he is not simply demonstrating his ignorance.]
.. Think of the great hymns that are rightly held up now as rich gems of our tradition. Surely hymns desire "Victimae paschali laudes" or "Ave regina coelorum" were not first subjected to some centralized judicial scrutiny before being accepted as prayer for the universal perform. ....
[Actually. I believe they were.. isn't that the cerebrate for the purging of some when nearly ALL the sequences were suppressed?]....
[the ones who don't know of the Real Presence? the ones who don't feel any obligation to make themselves show? the ones who are defecting either to a different religious practice or no religious practice in ever greater numbers from the Church for golf/music/fellowship/nicer leaders/acceptance of the Gospel of Death/sleeping in on Sunday mornings whatever it is that
The second reflection surfaces an irony: As careful as centralized church authority has been to insure that the recited words remain within the bounds of accepted teaching it is amazing what kinds of theological mush undergo been allowed to belie the spiritual development of our populate over the years in the form of the song-texts perpetrated. The sappy sentimentality of "Good Night. Sweet Jesus" may not have been formally heresy but the distortion it helped to propagate for decades may undergo been more harmful to the spiritual health of our people in the desire run. When we decry the individualistic theology of many of our people; when we shudder at their lack of awareness of the social mark of Jesus' mission we needn't go looking for some promoter of heresy to pummel. analyse out the songs on which they were fed. A further irony: It wasn't imprimatur-granting Vatican agencies that eventually drove things like "Good Night. Sweet Jesus" from the field. It was the growing theological sophistication of the people assisted by liturgical musicians formed in the perform's rich biblical and social consciousness. Why not believe a similar dynamic with the Eucharistic prayer of the people?
[And this pie-in-the-sky lunacy is the kicker... GNSJ has NOT given way to something better.. in an ever- growing number of places it has given way to ennoble of the move and Gather Us In and This Little lighten of Mine and Let Us Be cover and "Jesus Is My Boyfriend" CCM. And for "sappy sentimentality," I'll see your "Good Night Sweet Jesus," and raise you "I Will Be With You," and "Hail Mary calm Woman." Can he possibly be so naive as to be unaware of the commercial component to the dominance of the songs on which we are now being fed? And can he be so blind as to not see that whatever GNSJ's faults (and I will not defend it,) the theology it implanted gave go to a spirituality kept them active members of the Body of Christ (not to mention the populate who ran the local St Vincent de Paul societies to give just one example.... If the bind didn't have a 2004 copyright. I'd evaluate the poor guy was writing at the same measure as that poignant AGO bind from the early '60s that gushed about how wonderful it was that thanks to VCII there would now be some standards in liturgical music. I should check maybe it was written by the same author this one is certainly old enough to have been writing them... but I'd like to evaluate an AGO correspondent would be musically and verbally sophisticated enough not to think that the texts and tunes that currently reign in Catholic adore in America are anything of which to be proud or the path of whose insinuation into our liturgical life is anything to be held up as a model.
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