Posted on 08/29/2006 1:08:37 PM PDT by NYer
I propose the Index Canticorum Prohibitorum, the "Index of Forbidden Hymns."
"Ouuuhhhh. I like."
We all have our lists. "You ask me how I know He lives? He lives within my heart."
The first hymns to go should be hymns that teach heresy.
You don't have that problem when you sing the Psalms.
BAGPIPES AMAZING GRACE ABOUT 0530 mornings of the weekend.Did quite well at top volume.
Ah, heaven! (Gramma was a McGregor. It's in me blood.)
Didn't the Seraphim have a set of six wings?
But are they strictly speaking angels (angelos, ie. messenger)?
Exactly so! "Amazing Grace is based on the heresy that by His Grace, Christ "covers" our sinful hearts and hides them from the eyes of the Father. Catholic teaching is that Christ's grace cleanses our hearts and sanctifies them from sin and its effects.
"A Mighty Fortress" is one of Luther's vile anti-Papist screeds.
No one's mentioned the hippyish "Let There Be Peace On Earth" yet. Compare to Matthew 10:34-36.
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There's no hint of that in the text.
"A Mighty Fortress" is one of Luther's vile anti-Papist screeds.
Again, unless you're talking about German words with which I'm not familiar, there's nothing intrinsically anti-Catholic about the text.
For Sundays, I'll take "Holy God We Praise Thy Name" every week. Can't sing it enough.
For my funeral, I want the 1932 version of this. I haven't heard it since I was a boy with the priest in black vestments. Oh wow!
http://www.franciscan-archive.org/de_celano/opera/diesirae.html
I don't customarily refer to my wife as my "lover," I call her my wife.
The reason there's garbage like that is that in a Catholic church is that a fair amount of the garbage from OCP is written by homosexuals, like, e.g., Dan Schutte, who lives with his male lover -- there's that word again -- in San Francisco. The "hymns" are heretical because the people writing it often aren't faithful Catholics themselves!
Given the choice between homosexual propaganda in the guise of hymnody and something solidly Christian written by Martin Luther ... well, let's just say this Papist will say Hier stande ich, ich kann nicht anders!!
You can put "Anthem" at the top of that list...
...a Mormon theology lesson in song (if you ask me).
Seraphim, a Hebrew masculine plural form, designates a special class of heavenly attendants of Yahweh's court. In Holy Writ these angelic beings are distinctly mentioned only in Isaias's description of his call to the prophetical office (Isaiah 6:2 sqq.). In a vision of deep spiritual import, granted him in the Temple, Isaias beheld the invisible realities symbolized by the outward forms of Yahweh's dwelling place, of its altar, its ministers, etc. While he stood gazing before the priest's court, there arose before him an august vision of Yahweh sitting on the throne of His glory. On each side of the throne stood mysterious guardians, each supplied with six wings: two to bear them up, two veiling their faces, and two covering their feet, now naked, as became priestly service in the presence of the Almighty. His highest servants, they were there to minister to Him and proclaim His glory, each calling to the other: "Holy, holy, holy, Yahweh of hosts; all the earth is full of His glory."
I'd rather say, "You were ceated much more than a worm; fallen you are far worse, since you are the corruption of so noble a thing, and 'lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds'.(No that's not Scripture, I do confess it.) Redeemed, you are again higher, but you bear the marks of your degradation, as Christ bears His wounds. However in Him they are and in you they may become glorious."
But then, I'll say anything ...
We Catholics can defend through scripture our doctrine that works provide means of deepening and finding grace...and I can defend it using any mainstream non-Catholic Bible you choose.
Being stretched here and there as usual. Is there an option?
Didn't think so.
LUB,
THX,
Yes and no.
I understand his and your valid point.
But . . . God has taught me SOMEWHAT the perspective Isaiah had . . . HE IS HIGH AND LIFTED UP AND HIS TRAIN FILLED THE TEMPLE.
By comparison . . . worm is a reasonable perspective.
LOL.
The workshop participants certainly had trouble staying asleep with it.
NO.
THE BLOOD CLEANSES TO THE UTTERMOST. We are not in doubt or confused about that if we are reared in any healthy Evangelical church at all.
Good explanation. Thanks.
Welcome home!
Did you watch EWTN's The Journey Home, last night? Grodi's guest was a former Baptist minister. What an amazing journey!
Do you believe that a man/woman can be holy? God demands it of us. "You shall be holy, because I am holy."
I just heard that a lot of the Churches are taking all references to "blood" out of the hymnals so as not to offend anyone.
Who could be offended by that? Did Christ not spill His blood for mankind? Are we to pretend that He suffered an unbloody crucifixion? Someone shake up these decision makers; better yet, fire them.
That just disgusts me.
The blood? Or removing it from the songs?
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