Did you see the OCP’s NEW missalette? The 2008 version is by far the worst ever. For instance: Five different glorias, all wretched, all by St. Louis Jesuits, and all canonically improper in that the congregation only participates in a one-line chorus. And more pagan witchy-poo than you can shake a stick at. Nearly every song in it reads like a sorority ritual.
Missalette or "Music Issue"? I've seen them ... in that my current Parish uses them ... but haven't studied them in any great detail.
Five different glorias,
Because we must have "choice" and "diversity".
all wretched,
Of course
all by St. Louis Jesuits
Did music even exist before the SLJs?
, and all canonically improper
Middle finger to B16?
To their credit, the guitar-bangers have been using "O Come Emanuel" for a processional ... and one or two other, reasonably decent hymns during Mass. But then it goes down hill.
Let us not pollute this thread with any more talk of They From The Pacific Northwest Who Shall Not Be Named.
On Jordan’s Bank
On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Awake and hearken, for He brings
Glad tidings of the King of kings.
Then cleansed be ev’ry heart from sin;
Make straight the way of God within;
Oh, let us all our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there.
To heal the sick stretch out Thine hand,
And bid the fallen sinner stand;
Shine forth, and let Thy light restore
Earth’s own true loveliness once more.
All praise, eternal Son, to Thee,
Whose advent sets Thy people free;
Whom with the Father we adore
And Holy Ghost forever more.
Charles Coffin (composed 1736)