**This parish priest (despite the fact he’s in his sixties) of course does the host in hand business with different hymns allways new to the congregation recomended in the diocease missalete many of protestant origin being used for the “entrance” processional),offertory,communion,and “closing” (recessional).**
If they use the OCP series they are in for a great surprise with the new missalette for Ordinary Time. There are ABSOLUTELY NO haugen, haas, schutte, etc. songs. They are all traditional hymns. Rejoice!
I was so excited about it that I sent a positive note to Archbishop Sample (He’s been here one year.) telling him how wonderful all the traditional music was and hoping the new music issue that comes out in Advent will contain similar music (with the other haugen, haas, schutte, etc. omitted, of course.)
Can't wait! We had always used the traditional hymns from the St. John "classic" missalette, but a new parish administrator switched us to OCP and she is pushing the hippy-dippy stuff. I tried with all charity and kindness to explain to her the problem with the things from a musical and theological standpoint, but she would not listen.
LOVE to see the legs cut out from under her. I'm going to write a nice letter to the Archbishop myself. He probably could use some positive reinforcement.
What gives? Which edition of the missalette do you use?