Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Jim Noble; miss marmelstein; metmom; boatbums; caww; presently no screen name; redleghunter; ...
Why are Catholic Churches even using Protestant hymns?

Especially when they won't sing!

When I was yet a (weekly attending) RC, the head priest (and vicar) used to exhort us, "sing like Protestants." Only the charismatics at that time came close to evangelicals.

And if RCs follow V2 as they are supposed to, then they must acknowledged properly baptized Prots as separated brethren among whom the Spirit of God works, though we find very few brethren among Caths.

Will they be as atheists and claim the thousands upon thousands of hymns (over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs by Fanny Crosby alone) by Prot and evangelical writers were works of delusion, or at least not allow many are in the top ranks that glorify God and edify men?

Their loss.

One of my favorites:

O worship the King, all glorious above,
O gratefully sing His power and His love;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

O tell of His might, O sing of His grace,
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space,
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
And dark is His path on the wings of the storm.

The earth with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old;
Established it fast by a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.

Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.

O measureless might! Ineffable love!
While angels delight to worship Thee above,
The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
With true adoration shall all sing Thy praise.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/w/owtking.htm

Words:Ro­bert Grant, in Christ­ian Psalm­o­dy, by Ed­ward H. Bick­er­steth, 1833, alt. This ver­sion is a re­work­ing of lyr­ics by Wil­liam Kethe in the Ge­ne­van Psalt­er of 1561.

Music: Ly­ons, at­trib­ut­ed to Jo­hann M. Hay­dn (1737-1806); ar­ranged by Wil­liam Gar­din­er, Sac­red Mel­o­dies (Lon­don: 1815)

We can sing Catholic ones that glorify God also. Most modern music is another story.

25 posted on 06/28/2015 2:52:15 PM PDT by daniel1212 (uiredm,)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies ]


To: daniel1212

Closing hymn today. Excellent hymn.


26 posted on 06/28/2015 3:04:07 PM PDT by xone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies ]

To: daniel1212

What are you talking about? We sing Protestant hymns all the time. In fact, my parish sang the one you mention very recently.


30 posted on 06/29/2015 5:13:11 AM PDT by Campion
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson