Dear ninenot,
"On Eagle's Wings" isn't the worst of the new music, by a stretch. It's pretty inoffensive, with all that that implies.
My vote is let's go back to Gregorian chant for a hundred years or so (or at least until I'm dead), and then a future generation, that actually knows what Catholic music sounds like, can deal with the issue.
sitetest
"'On Eagle's Wings' isn't the worst of the new music, by a stretch. It's pretty inoffensive, with all that that implies."
Actually, when I think about it, applying my razor-sharp criteria for what constitutes "good" music (to wit: I like it or I don't) I think "Eagle's Wings" is the only modern hymn I like.
All of the other hymns and Christmas carols that I know by heart (Amazing Grace, Ave Maria, A Mighty Fortress, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, etc.) are really quite old.
We're always singing these "gifts of finest wheat, bread of life to eat" things at communion that are three-notes-up, three-notes-down, just like the Psalm is always sung in that "Gelineau Tone", which to me seems to mean "monotone with an up-note at the end".
"It's not the worst" is a description which is accurate.
So your daughter gets a marriage proposal from someone you'd describe as "not the worst..."--
I would expect that you'd react the same way I do about music for worship: "..not the worst!!!!!"
Best,