A report on the first day of the 2011 Hymn Society conference in Colorado Springs, CO. This year’s theme: “Touch the Earth Lightly.”
Archive for category Music: Hymns
There are many aspects to this question, obviously. Let’s have a good discussion of it at Pray Tell.
GIA’s Gather 3 – a valiant attempt to be all things to many people.
No. Big. Deal.
Jul 8
This just in: the updated translation of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal says the same thing about proper chants and other songs as did the 2003 translation!
Thanks to Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Chant Café, I have become aware that the Holy See ordered ICEL to coordinate the three extant English translations of the GIRM (US, Australia, and England and Wales) into one translation, and to add the approved US variants….
A Pray Tell reader is trying to find a hymn, remembers that it has some of the following text. I don’t recognize it. Does anyone else?
Just to alert our readers to a number of excellent, thought-provoking, cross-blog considerations relevant to liturgical music and of interest to at least some Pray Tell readership. . .
This is clearly an editorial oddity – perhaps produced after a heavy Roman lunch?
The Hymns in GIA’s Worship 4
May 22
I have high hopes for a renewal of biblical piety for Catholics who sing the hymn texts in Worship, 4th edition.
“At Nicea, your ideas were the answer to the fuss.
Athanasius, so loquacious, now from heaven, pray for us.”