Just so you know, I will bear a deep and lasting grudge as long as "Here I Am, Lord" is gnawing away at my brain.
On the ratings list they have "Eagle's Wings" and "Here I am" at #1 and #2.
Like the Pope said: "the truth ain't subject to a majority vote" and the best song isn't determined by a popularity contest. Permit me to post this:
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,
Que sub his figuris vere latitas:
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit,
Quia te contemplans, totum deficit.
Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,
Sed auditu solo tuto creditur:
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius,
Nil hoc verbo Veritatis verius.
In cruce latebat sola Deitas,
At hic latet simul et humanitas:
Ambo tamen credens, atque confitens,
Peto quod petivit latro poenitens.
Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor,
Deum tamen meum te confiteor:
Fac me tibi semper magis credere,
In te spem habere, te diligere.
O memoriale mortis Domini,
Panis vivus vitam praestans homini:
Praesta meae menti de te vivere,
Et te illi semper dulce sapere.
Pie pellicane, Jesu domine,
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine:
Cujus una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.
Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,
Oro, fiat illud, quod tam sitio:
Ut te revelata cernens facie,
Visu sim beatus tuae gloriae. Amen
This "online survey" is absolutely worthless as a real tool for measuring popularity or signifigance.
Happily the number responding was paltry.
I don't hold that real representative results would be much different given the ridiculous way in which we all have these same stupid songs foisted upon us by the "liturgists".
I know that some songs have a faux sentimentality to them, but I don't think people really find such songs beautiful in the long run. Many songs (such as One Bread One Body) are just like pop songs from my high school days that I have a sentimental attraction to, but which I know are embarassingly vapid and immature.
Other songs, such as Tantum Ergo, Ave Verum or Joyful Joyful, never make me cringe in embarassment the way Glory & Praise songs often do.