Dan Schutte: popular Catholic liturgical music composer, former St. Louis Jesuit, partnered gay man?

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[Blessed Charlemagne]

This is no surprise. Gay sounding music written by a man, paid for by U.S. Bishops (or rather, those who give money to US Bishops).

[Blessed Charlemagne]

Here is an improved version of one of his songs:

A Ditty to God (after Dan Schutte's The City of God)

Awake from your slumber, arise from your sleep;
The homily's over, it wasn't too deep.
He spoke of a 'journey', well, what else does he say?
We're all part of a 'story' as we go on our way.

So let's sing a ditty to God,
It's a way we can all be together.
And we'll be the City of God
If we tell his story once more.

We're all part of a journey, to 'I-don't-know-where',
But that isn't important, so long as we're here.
Be part of the story of me and of you,
And don't worry asking if the story is true.

No, just sing a ditty to God,
It's a way we can all be together.
It would be a pity for God
If we told his story no more.

So come if you're ready, the meek and the smug,
For God is a Teddy, he'll give you a hug.
And take consolation, till next time we meet,
As you go on your journey, God's in the back seat.

So just sing a ditty to God,
It's a way we can all be together.
It would be a pity for God
If we told his story no more.

[Convert from ECUSA]

BWHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Great improvisation! Stuff like Schnutte's isn't done at my parish (at least not at any of the Masses I've attended in one year at my parish). But when I've traveled, if had the misfortune to hear ditties like this at what passes for Mass (passes for, because they seem so light, insubstantial and trite compared to the Masses I see at my home parish). Oy gevalt, the schlock! Ugh! Not every place can be a beautiful Cathedral with full choir doing Gregorian Chant, etc., but one would like to at least be able to travel and not dread they may come across a place where the "worship team", "music leader" or whatever the "contemporary" term is, are doing things that reflect that someone, somewhere flunked tacky and tasteless 101 at Berkley in 1968.

[rogator]

"Our whole parish sings with the choir. "

I sing with the choir too, when they sing Catholic music.
Unfortunately we have not sung one tradionally Catholic hymn since 15 August.
A lot of our folks say rosaries during the banal music.

[Blessed Charlemagne]

It is quite funny. I didn't make it up. Someone sent it to me. The bad thing is, most of the music they sing these days is so banal and mindless that you could probably substitute the parody in place of the real one and few would notice.

[Convert from ECUSA]

You are so right! The AmChurch and the AmEpiscopalians must share the same composers! My former Episcopal parish was one of the few left that did good music - but even it had the "contemporary" hymnal and "praise music" book forced on it by the local "bishop." But they rarely did anything from them, they still did 98% of the good stuff. Like I said, that is rare. There are other Episcopal parishes that sing the same type of feel-good, we're all OK, hootenanny Barney music that makes one want to run out screaming and have a very stiff Tanqueray and Tonic or Johnnie Walker Black and Soda to sooth the jangled nerves and grated ear drums!

[ArrogantBustard]

Just FWIW, and appropos of nothing ...

Folks who pollute good Scotch with anything ... even ice ... are barbarians.

IMO.

We now return to our regularly scheduled "bash the faggy musicians" session.

OCP delenda est.

[Convert from ECUSA]

OK, OK, so I'm still a bit of the barbarian, I sometimes put soda with Scotch.....however, I do not, do not, mix anything with any single malt scotch! That would be beyond barbarian and border on heathen!

[Blessed Charlemagne]

On this we agree. But I would put stress on the word "good" before scotch. Sometimes the budget doesn't allow for expensive single malt, then steps must be taken.

[ArrogantBustard]

I do not, do not, mix anything with any single malt scotch!

Wheew! You were scarin' me, there.

BTW, even if a Parish uses the missalettes, all is not lost. Much, but not all. There's usually enough good music, there, to suffice. One must beware, though. The missalette companies have a nasty habit of tweaking the lyrics ... or worse, substituting entirely new verses, which are universally of inferior quality. "Faith of our Fathers" now includes a verse about "our mothers" ... it's silly. Our music director (a lady) always omits it ... but there it is in the missalette, standing out like a bottle of Thunderbird at a wine festival.

It they have copies of "Glory and Praise" in the pews ... be afraid ... be very afraid.

[Chickamauga]

I once came back to my BOQ and found my roomy mixing Pinch Bottle with orange juice. Just thought I'd ruin your day.

[ArrogantBustard]

That's just disgusting. Almost as bad as Carey Landry's "music".

I thought Conduct Unbecoming an Officer was a court martial offence.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"there it is in the missalette, standing out like a bottle of Thunderbird at a wine festival."

Oy vey! I know what you mean. I have this internal cringing reaction (rather like hearing a rusty hinge on an August afternoon) when I hear or see terms such as "Contemporary Praise and Worship", "Praise Songs for Today", "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (the ECUSA's version of a "contemporary" hymnal"), or when the old Episcopal hymnal (The Hymnal 1940) wad replaced by the PC (The Hymnal 1982 - which trashed a lot of great hymns with "contemporary" and "correct" language). Shudder! Seems there is a factory somewhere turning out massive amounts of "music up-to-daters"....rumor has it that the factory began in 1968 somewhere by a group that flunked tacky and tasteless 101 in 1968, and someone forgot to turn off the switch! Oy.

What with all the hooie about "contemporary" and "correct" music for any of the churches, Catholic and otherwise, it becomes an exercise in deliciously subversive naughtiness to put a CD of Gregorian Chant, Eastern Orthodox/Eastern Catholic Chant/Divine Liturgy, or even the music of the old Anglicans......rather like listening to the BBC in occupied Europe during WW 2.