Posted on 08/29/2006 1:08:37 PM PDT by NYer
love that graphic! it looks like the angel is saying "Shush!"
Victor Lams posts about infiltrating the liturgical complex by writing outlandishly heretical hymns that will be snapped up by music publishers and then slowly trying to introduce real music. He has some very funny possible hymn titles of which I have put the words to one of them:
I Am The Resurrection Muffin
For the poor, the sad the downtrodden
Look to me the Resurrection Muffin
No half-baked theology for you or me
I am fully cooked plainly you can see
Chorus:
Repent deeply of all your sins
Look deeply upon the Resurrection Muffin
Your salvation now has truly began
available in Banana Nut or Healthy Oat Bran
Diversity in liturgy is no problem for me
Yummy Chocolate Chip and also Blueberry
I am the true paschal pastry
Eat of me and you will be set free
Chorus:
All the best liturgists fully approve of me
Chocked full of nuts like their liturgies
Pop me right out of that muffin tin
Enjoy the life of the muffin within
Chorus:
And here is another offering sung to Here I am Lord, and if you don't know the music that goes along with it - then count your blessings.
Here I am, Bored
Masses with guitar licks.
Heretical insipid fare.
Let me listen to you.
Fill me with despair.
Here I am, bored.
Here I am.
Music that is a disservice, here I am.
Here I am, bored.
Here I am.
Music that is a disservice, here I am.
This song is everlasting.
Pop music of I tire.
A total tonal bleakness.
Couldn't you all just retire?
Here I am, bored.
Here I am.
Music that is a disservice, here I am.
Here I am, bored.
Here I am.
Music that is a disservice, here I am.
Lyrics that are just plain dumb.
Hear my cry for help.
Hear me using these three words,
Gregorian Chant Now!
Here I am, bored.
Here I am.
Music that is a disservice, here I am.
Here I am, bored.
Here I am.
Music that is a disservice, here I am.
Get rid of "Kumbaya" forever!
This is most certainly true.
My wife, who is not Lutheran, can not understand why I don't feel at home unless there is a loud organ and hymns in the "old fashioned" style.
I've tried to explain to her the significance hymns have to the Lutheran liturgy, but it falls on deaf ears (probably from the last organ solo).
I just keep my mouth shut during those "We are Jesus" songs. I know my husband is tired of me elbowing him every time our choir sings a song I don't like. :o)
The angel is saying: the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee
AWFUL SONG
Tune: "Awesome God"
Our song is an awful song,
It's filled with empty fluff--
Of Christ, not near enough--
Our song is an awful song.
SHAME, CHURCHES, SHAME
Tune: "Shine, Jesus, Shine"
Shame, churches, shame,
For this brand of "creative worship."
Lame, music, lame--
That's what you admire.
Spine, churches, spine--
Blending in isn't so "courageous."
Check out your roots,
Church, and sing some real hymns.
I once held the opinion that for a congregation to sing in the divine "I" wasn't kosher, until I stumbled upon hymns in the Byzantine tradition that used that device. Then I began not to care that much about that "defect."
I love "I am the Bread of Life." To sing it is to sing Scripture. Just as a reader doesn't become Christ when s/he proclaims Scripture in the divine "first person," a cantor or a congregation is not at fault when they do the same. If the hymn proclaims Scripture in a sense that agrees with Tradition, I no longer care if it is in "the first person."
The rest of the article is right on the mark.
Don't forget the shaggy-bear Tom Conry, who loves to write Communist anthems for church settings, among others. He and his contemporaries at Oregon Catholic Press are responsible for a lot of the dumbing-down of Catholic praxis.
thanks. I figured with the thread being about bad hymns and all, it was "shush."
Their name is legion, for they are many.
Great link .... just curious, but have any RC hymns infiltrated the Byzantine Church? (Father has a few reserved for certain seasons).
And Marty Haugen is Lutheran -- why do we have to put up with his mass of cremation? The fifty year ban isn't long enough.
LOL
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