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Songs That Make a Difference (Questionnaire for Catholics!)
NAPM ^ | 2005 | National Association of Pastoral Musicians

Posted on 06/23/2005 1:37:42 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

What liturgical song has really made a difference for you? It might be a song that has helped to form or strengthen your faith; has played a significant part in the life of your parish or community; is associated with a noteworthy event; or is simply your favorite liturgical song.

We are inviting NPM members and other American Catholics to tell us your selection for a liturgical song that makes a difference. We would like to know the texts and tunes that have done the most to help American Catholics to discover, explore, nourish, and deepen their faith. We will continue to collect choices through September 30, 2005 and then publish a list of the most popular and important songs, according to the survey, later in the fall as well as some of the stories that we receive.

My choice for a liturgical song that makes a difference (One entry per person please!)

Composer, text writer, hymnal, and/or other source (optional)

Please tell us the reason for your selection (optional)

Name (required)

E-Mail (required)

Street Address

City

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Diocese

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Click on the source to actually fill out the questionnaire. This is your oportunity to really get it off your chest: the heresyof "Anthen," the unsingability of "On Eagle's Wings" --- or take the positive approach, and tell them what kind of music you really, prayerully, enthusiastically appreciate.

Post your answers here, if you want. Fun, OK: but thiscould actually be valuable, who knows?

1 posted on 06/23/2005 1:37:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: don-o; Campion; netmilsmom; Tax-chick; camle; anniegetyourgun; murphE; donbosco74; sempertrad; ...

Seriously, the hymn that changed MY life was VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS.


2 posted on 06/23/2005 1:40:13 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Imple superna gratia, quae tu creasti pectora. Amen.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
the heresyof "Anthen,"

I'm not famailiar with that one. Do you have more info on this?

3 posted on 06/23/2005 1:41:27 PM PDT by frogjerk
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Pange Lingua Gloriosi

Faith of Our Fathers

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

Immaculate Mary

4 posted on 06/23/2005 1:42:33 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I'm a Catholic but I really like the old-time gospel music. Too bad we don't sing any of them during mass.


5 posted on 06/23/2005 1:43:54 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Ave Maria, hands down.
6 posted on 06/23/2005 1:45:15 PM PDT by mike182d ("Let fly the white flag of war." - Zapp Brannigan)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

On my First Communion Day

Bring Flowers of the Rarest...

Holy God We Praise Thy Name

Mother at Your Feet is Kneeling

Tantum Er

Oh Sacrament Most Holy

Just tooooooooooooo many to list.


7 posted on 06/23/2005 1:48:14 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever know! :))
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To: ladtx

Examples.


8 posted on 06/23/2005 1:51:20 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Have just told off NPM. I don't expect a reply, unless it's a curt and snarky one.


9 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:24 PM PDT by Loyalist (No confidence in Mr. Dithers.)
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To: frogjerk
Sorry for the typo, it's "Anthem" by Tom Conry. As the Adoremus Bulletin states so well, it is less a hymn than a self-parody of conceit:

We are called, we are chosen./ We are Christ for one another./ We are promise to tomorrow,/ while we are for him today./ We are sign, we are wonder,/ we are sower, we are seed./ We are harvest, we are hunger./ We are question, we are creed.

Count them: 13 separate uses of "I" or "we" in these lines. Nor do the verses help: they do not sing to Christ, but only about Him and to ... us! (If we are creed, I must say --- looking in the mirror --- we are in serious trouble.) The dialogue with the Almighty has been shut down, and we sing to one another about one another and only secondarily about Him, the object of all our affections.

Songs such as these give us a wonderfully ridiculous image of a bride so enamoured with herself that she cannot see the Bridegroom awaiting her at the altar.

10 posted on 06/23/2005 1:55:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Imple superna gratia, quae tu creasti pectora. Amen.)
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To: wideawake
Examples

Precious Memories
It Is No Secret
I'll Fly Away
The Old Rugged Cross

Just a few off the top of my head.

11 posted on 06/23/2005 1:56:41 PM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I've never heard the hymn in my Church. Thank the Lord.


12 posted on 06/23/2005 1:57:22 PM PDT by frogjerk
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Wow, that "hymn" definitively sucks eggs.

Good thing I've never encountered it.

Of course, I've heard tales from Episcopals that Imagine has actually been sung in church.

13 posted on 06/23/2005 2:00:57 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; ArrogantBustard; BlackElk; CAtholic Family Association; GirlShortstop; Desdemona; ...

Heh.

I gave them the Dies Irae from the Mass for the Dead, Liber Usualis/1935.

Heh.


14 posted on 06/23/2005 2:06:57 PM PDT by ninenot (Minister of Membership, Tomas Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: mike182d
Ave Maria, hands down.

I much prefer Salve Regina to Ave Maria. So simple. So beautiful.

However, the hymn that really had an impact on me was Faith of Our Fathers. It was always a kind of a family hymn for us. We always sang it at family Masses, etc. Then the feminazis got a hold of our daughter. She hated the song and took every opportunity to malign it. She left the Church for years.

After many years she quietly returned without any fanfare or announcement to us. At her wedding, the entrance hymn she and my son in law selected was Faith of Our Fathers. I literally wept with joy. I was practically sobbing in the Church. My wife couldn't tell if I was laughing or crying. Honestly, I'm not sure what I was doing either. It was extremely emotional for me.

15 posted on 06/23/2005 2:07:50 PM PDT by old and tired
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To: Mrs. Don-o

"A Mighty Fortress is our God"

I know, I know. Luther wrote it.

I can't help it.


16 posted on 06/23/2005 2:09:39 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Sanctus from Mass IX


17 posted on 06/23/2005 2:18:39 PM PDT by MSSC6644
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To: cubreporter
Tantum Er
go?

I think that's the last two verses of Pange Lingua Gloriosi.

Tough to go wrong with hymns written by Thomas Aquinas.

Adoro Te Devote is another.

We could sing O Sacrament Most Holy every week, IMO. But we hardly ever sing it.

Panis Angelicus is another good one.

18 posted on 06/23/2005 2:27:23 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: Mrs. Don-o
We are called, we are chosen./ We are Christ for one another./ We are promise to tomorrow,/ while we are for him today./ We are sign, we are wonder,/ we are sower, we are seed./ We are harvest, we are hunger./ We are question, we are creed.

LOL! Sounds tailor-made for those wymen's "ordinations" in several threads lately!

I still love "On This Day," maybe because it was the first "real" song I ever learned all the words to, at my mother's knee. Other favorites are "Be Thou My Vision" and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence."

And I fell in love with chant at age 12, when in our little parish the 7th and 8th grades were the choir, and we sang the Holy Week services. My devotion has never faltered.

My current favorite (though I don't know if it qualifies as a hymn) is a beautiful musical setting of Psalm 23 -- 22 to you Catholics ;-) -- in Hebrew. I find myself humming it all the time; I just wish I could figure out a way to have it at my funeral.

19 posted on 06/23/2005 2:30:37 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Mrs. Don-o
The choir introduced 'God Beyond All Names' a couple of weeks ago. It was okay until the last phrase of the chorus informed me "we are bringing you to birth."

I was not aware that we give birth to God. That certainly made a 'difference' for me. I almost screamed out 'What the **** is this!' in the middle of Mass.

Not a good 'difference' but a 'difference' none the less.

20 posted on 06/23/2005 2:36:45 PM PDT by siunevada
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