I believe that this article is worthy of our thoughtful (not splenetic) discussion. At the original site there are 205 comments as of this posting here; a few of these comments have real merit. On two other lists Michael Joncas, Gordon Truitt, and J. Michael Thompson have weighed in thoughtfully. I am hoping they will [...]
Archive for category Music: Hymns
Four conferences this summer on liturgical music, at which Fr. Michael Joncas will be speaking.
What is your liturgical experience of hymns and antiphons?
I find the text surprisingly appropriate in the light of this past week’s events in Newtown.
In a time of liturgical questions, changes, challenges, reforms, and reforms of reforms, filled with arguments, disputes, power plays, and power players, perhaps a bit of psalmist-inspired Reformation perspective is in order. If it worked for 16th century Martin Luther and 20th century Roman Catholic hymnal editors, perhaps we 21st century folk can profit from it as well.
By James E. Frazier
Neither the Vatican II Hymnal nor the Adoremus Hymnal provides a listing of copyright permissions.
The Vatican II Hymnal is at once the most complete, the most limited, and in some ways the most traditional of all three hymnals reviewed in this series.
by James E. Frazier.
“Despite my reservations about St. Michael Hymnal, the hymnal will serve any parish well that wants a traditional hymnal of this sort, with a fair range of non-traditional options.”
by James E. Frazier.
“The several theological problems that I have noted in the Adoremus Hymnal were clearly not perceived as such by the editors.”
by James E. Frazier.
“Because the three hymnals under consideration here constitute a concerted attack on what goes on in so many Sunday liturgies in North America, some background is helpful.”