Posted on 10/19/2006 6:23:52 PM PDT by NYer
Disdained. To treat with contempt.
"The OCP is humongous and its reach deep into the Novus Ordo."
You can bet that OCP "experts" will be there to "help" the bishops establish their new norms.
BARF
One more: how about nixing the "let's hold hands during the Lord's Prayer?" What's so Christian about holding hands with a runny-nosed kid, and no access to the washroom for another 20 minutes?
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I hear ya'! I was discussing this with another poster on another thread. I NEVER hold anyone's had during the Our Father. I just keep my hands together in prayer, and they get the message.
I was not familiar with that bit of history. Thank you.
I have no confidence, however, that, given today's climate in the Church that such reverence could be accomplished.
*That, obviously, refers to Geraldine Ferraro and we shouldn't be engaged in politics at Mass
How about "All are Welcome"
Barf....
It could have been based on St. Paul:
Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Oh, so you've been to St. Mary's in Chandler, AZ?
"All are Welcome"
We sing this at least once a month at my parish. We had an Eastern Rite priest for awhile whom I loved and the choir rarely tried to sing songs like that. Unfortunately, he was replaced, and although I really do like the new priest, the choir gets away with singing this hippy-dippy garbage more often. I just don't sing and won't let the kids sing it either. I'm trying to get on the Liturgical committee in hopes of putting a stop to this stuff.
That mp3 file is one of the most excreble recordings I have ever heard! Oh to wash out my ears!!!!!!!!!!
I've gotten so sick of modern hymns (e.g., the execrable "We Are the People of God") that I just hum my own words to the melody. Usually I put to the melody the phrase, "This song sucks, this song sucks, this song really, really sucks."
"All are Welcome." That's a good example of my practice of making up my own lyrics to the melody: "This song su-u-u-ucks, this song su-u-u-ucks, this song really, really sucks."
Oh that it so wonderful!!! I never thought of doing that! I'll be smiling every time they sing that song now. I sit on the front row so maybe one of them will be able to read my lips. :o)
Good grief, that is my least favorite "hymn." It smacks of Mormon theology (IMHO). It has no place in a Catholic church.
I'm with you. Martin Luther differed with the Catholic Church with his "sola fide."
But the Council of Trent clearly states that nothing can be accomplished by fallen humanity without prevenient grace. The idea that you can earn anything by merit that is not informed by grace falls into the Pelagian Heresy. There are certainly differences between Protestants and Catholics on matters of faith and grace, but I don't believe there is anything actually contrary to the faith in "Amazing Grace."
The same cannot be said of numerous 60s style Catholic hymns, unfortunately.
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