[conservonator]

Why do you say that?

RE; Lord of the Dance- I find the song to be wholly inappropriate for the mass.

Re: Here I am Lord.- I can't help but think that the lyrics have a particular meaning for an unrepentant homosexual that was not intended when Samuel or Ananias recited them when the Lord called them.

Maybe it's just me, but I doubt it.

[AnAmericanMother]

"Lord of the Dance" was never intended as a hymn. It's a poem set to music by Sydney Carter. He writes good stuff, but it's not church stuff. It's sort of folk.

His "Friday Morning" is splendid, makes you think, and it's a pleasure to sing -- but it's not for church.

It was on a Friday morning that they took me from the cell
and I saw they had a carpenter to crucify as well
You can blame it on to Pilate
You can blame it on the Jews
You can blame it on the Devil
Its God I accuse
Its God they ought to crucify instead of you and me
I said to the carpenter, a-hanging on the tree

You can blame it on to Adam
You can blame it on to Eve
You can blame it on the apple,
but that I can't believe
It was God that made the Devil
And the woman and the man
And there wouldn't be an apple
If it wasn't in the plan

Now Barabbas was a killer
And they let Barabbas go
But you are being crucified
For nothing that I know
And your God is up in Heaven
and He doesn't do a thing
With a million angels watching
and they never move a wing

To hell with Jehovah
To the carpenter I said
I wish that a carpenter
had made the world instead
Goodbye and good luck to you
our ways will soon divide
Remember me tomorrow
The man you hung beside

[Salvation]

I have never cared for the Lord of the Dance either.

Had never considered your reasoning on the Here I Am, either. I choose not to think that way, I guess..........or just I'm naive.