Posted on 06/23/2005 1:37:42 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
"Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence"
I love that one...ethereal describes it to a 'T'. I also love the one below. I insisted it be played at Mom's funeral last year. The new Episcopal hymnal omits verse four; I had to have inserts printed from Hymnal 1940 four the service. I don't know why it was left out. More of the new age Episcopalianism, I suppose. I'm outta there. Thank God mother's Alzheimer's kept her from knowing what had happened to her beloved church.
My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine!
Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day be wholly Thine!
May Thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire!
As Thou hast died for me, O may my love to Thee,
Pure warm, and changeless be, a living fire!
While life’s dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread, be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day, wipe sorrow’s tears away,
Nor let me ever stray from Thee aside.
When ends life’s transient dream,
When death’s cold sullen stream over me roll;
Blest Savior, then in love, fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul!
Thanks for posting this!
Are you by any chance thinking of "On This Day Oh Beautiful Mother"? (You probably can't hear me humming it, but I love this hymn!)
---Holy God, We Praise Thy Name---
I love this hymn and want it played at my funeral. It was a staple as people exited Church from Benediction. Tantum Ergo is a close second.
Sigh!
Frank
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Catholic Gregorian Chant again at the Vatican PING!!!!
I think you meant to post to me. Yes, "On this day, O beautiful Mother/On this day we give thee our love./Near thee, Madonna, fondly we hover,/Trusting thy gentle care to prove."
Oh no...I know that one. We presented my wedding bouquet at her statue the day we were married. That was the hymn that was played.
No, this was a hymn sung by the children who were making their First Holy Communion. I am determined to find it. :)
Hey thank you. I put your church into my fav places to take the tour. Will also read about the letters. Isn't it something? No matter if it is politics or religion unless it is THEIR WAY they THINK it is the HIGHWAY. Little do they know there are way too many traditional Catholics out there who will continue on as they should and so will their children. Thank you for all the information. God bless you, our Catholic Congregation and our country.
But I always loved that line from Stations -- even spoken in English!
Maybe I'll have another go at the speakers tomorrow.
Does not conform to Catholic theology and should be banished forever from any Catholic liturgical service. It may work fine for the Baptists but we catholics are not saved by grace alone
Wow.
Those of you who watched EWTN's live coverage of the last Youth Day in Toronto, Canada, may recall this beautiful hymn (?) that accompanied the Via Crucis. It comes from the Taize Community in France. Absolutely moving in its simplicity.
I like it too! ;-)
"We adore thee O Christ and we bless Thee, because by Thy Holy Cross Thou hast redeemed the world!"
This was sung at the Good Friday service in the old days as I recall. I also remember the long list of prayers said by the priest in Latin that always ended with the refrain "Flectamus genua!" (let us kneel!) and the respondent then singing "Levate!" (let us rise).
Gorgeous hymn, Sandy!
Frank
My Communion class sang "Panis Angelicus" as the entrance hymn, and it has been close to my heart ever since.
My son? Well...last year at HIS First Holy Communion they got to sing "I Got the JoyJoyJoyJoyJoyJoyJoyJoy Down in My Heart," causing my (Lutheran) M-I-L to clap her hands and exclaim, "Oh! It's just like Vacation Bible School!"
She seemed relieved that her grandson wasn't being expected to be Terribly Catholic or anything.
***sigh*** I just have to keep offering it up...just keep offering it up.
Regards,
Truly one of the most beautiful hymns ever written! During the season of Pentecost, we sing that hymn during the Fraction, Consignation, Intinction, Commixture and Elevation. Our pastor being bi-ritual, some of the old Latin hymns rubbed off on him ;-D.
The first time I attended the Maronite Divine Liturgy, the following is the hymn that was sung during Communion. It brought tears to my eyes that day and continues to do so.
O Bread Of Life
O Bread of Life, O Food of Souls
The Son of God, now Son of man
God's love revealed.
The angels stand before your face
with awe and fear;
How then shall we poor sinful men
dare draw so near?
The ocean depths of God's great love
became a flood
the night He gave His precious Food,
His flesh and blood.
Our bodies take, our souls receive
this awesome Lord.
O Mystery that shows how God
should be adored!
Oh Mary, dearest Mother,
In God’s sweet scented bowers,
Will you gather for a little child
A wreath of fragrant flowers.
I wish my heart to be
A cradle fair and gay,
Where my Blessed jesus may repose
On my First Communion Day.
The first hymns to go should be hymns that teach heresy. If hymns are more than liturgical filler, hymns that teach ideas contrary to Christian truth have no business in the liturgy. "Ashes" is the prime example here: "We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew." No, we don't. Christ creates us anew. (Unless Augustine was wrong and Pelagius right). Then there's "For the Healing of the Nations," which, addressing God, deplores "Dogmas that obscure your plan." Say what? Dogma illuminates God's plan and liberates us in doing so. That, at least, is what the Catholic Church teaches. What's a text that flatly contradicts that teaching doing in hymnals published with official approval?Next to go should be those "We are Jesus" hymns in which the congregation (for the first time in two millennia of Christian hymnology) pretends that it's Christ. "Love one another as I have loved you/Care for each other, I have cared for you/Bear each other's burdens, bind each other's wounds/and so you will know my return." Who's praying to whom here? And is the Lord's "return" to be confined to our doing of his will? St. John didn't think so. "Be Not Afraid" and "You Are Mine" fit this category, as does the ubiquitous "I Am the Bread of Life," to which I was recently subjected on, of all days, Corpus Christi -- the one day in the Church year completely devoted to the fact that we are not a self-feeding community giving each other "the bread of life" but a Eucharistic people nourished by the Lord's free gift of himself. "I am the bread of life" inverts that entire imagery, indeed falsifies it
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