So. how far are you from Los Angeles? I’ll be over. We have ‘Captain Ahab’ on the organ upstairs — my son and I cannot sit together, because if either of us dares to take a peek at him, we roll our eyes. But the no music mass is, of course, wonderful.
I did politely talk to the organist once, thanking him for playing/ singing How Great Thou Art, requesting could we maybe do other of the Great Old Hymns. He obstinately replied that there were some very good NEW hymns in the OCP book too. Not really.
We are so content and thankful, however, to have good, solid orthodoxy that we don’t complain.
I never heard the Nicene Creed spoken in a Protestant Church.
The Mass parts from the Missa di Angeles are in the OCP book. Ask for them sometime. Chant is really very easy.
OCP took out "Praise God in His Holy Dwelling" and that was the end for me. That was one of the few decent "new" hymns in there.
I never heard the Nicene Creed spoken in a Protestant Church.
I have. Probably depends where you've been. Your basic "mutt evangelical" church, unlikely.
I never heard the Nicene Creed spoken in a Protestant Church.
Of course in the Episcopal Church (which used to be called officially "The Protestant Episcopal Church in America") we said the Nicene Creed every Sunday, but then again we were "just one step from Rome". It's in the BCP communion service, though, so even the most protestant variety of Episcopalians say it every Sunday (or at least they're supposed to).
Don't give up hope re your music. Make sure whichever member of the clergy is in charge of the music program knows who you are and that you are very "musical". Then bide your time until the organist retires or gets a job offer from another church. Then get yourself put on the search committee.
I didn't actually plan that scheme out ahead of time, but that's how it worked out here. We used to have a music director here who was a very nice man personally but far too fond of OCP and Haugen/Haas dreck. I met the deacon in charge of the music program while he was teaching the class for parents of confirmands, and we got to talking about music quite a bit (he was a music major in college). So he asked me to sit on the search committee when the music director took a job at another church, and the rest is history (and much better music).