Liturgy update ping!
Ruthenian Byzantine Rite just keeps using the same Carpathian Plainchant.” We don’t have to worry about changing things back and forth. We sing what this Rite has sung for generations. By St. John Chrysostom.
(What would Marty Haugen do?)
Good. Maybe we'll get less dreck this time.
Of course, if we just used CHANT, we wouldn't have to struggle to fit the words to pop music . . . . with a good chant tone (Gregorian OR Anglican), you can chant anything from a Psalm to a grocery list to the portion of the British Highway Code pertaining to pedestrians to The Weather Forecast.
**A, “Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again,” is pending approval as an additional proposal. Kelly Dobbs Mickus, GIA senior editor and National Association of Pastoral Musicians publicity committee chairwoman, explained: “Composers are trying to do settings, and they don’t know whether or not to set that. So, we’ve been asking them to set it, and if we need it, we need it — and if we don’t, we don’t.” **
Oh, I pray they dump this. I hate it and will not sing it.
**Since Marty Haugen set that acclamation in his well-known “Mass of Creation,” it is frequently used in the United States. On the other hand, it is the only memorial acclamation in the post-Vatican II Roman Missal that speaks of Jesus in the third person rather than the second. It has no counterpart in the Latin Missal. **
I just re-read this and found this. Please, please, bishops, dump it.
I wish they’d dump the Leonard Cohen Hallelujah. Every time I hear it my mind wanders to that fourth verse.
Cue “The Vatican Rag” by Tom Lehrer.