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January 15, 2006
Is it I, Lord?
Raise your hand if....Here I am, Lord was played in your parish today.
Who says there's no universal character to the liturgy any more!?
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Amy Welborn's got a fun thread about that Schutte song: apparently most parishes sang it reflexively according to the Scripture reading for the day.... [Read More]
Tracked on Jan 15, 2006 11:16:54 PM
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We sang it.
Posted by: ml at Jan 15, 2006 1:43:10 PM
*hand raised*
Posted by: Tope at Jan 15, 2006 1:44:03 PM
*raises hand*
Posted by: Bill H at Jan 15, 2006 1:45:21 PM
I'm afraid so...
Posted by: Lynn at Jan 15, 2006 1:46:46 PM
We were spared. *sitting on his hands*
Posted by: D. Scott Miller at Jan 15, 2006 1:47:09 PM
nope, not here either. But I went to the Tridentine Mass...
Posted by: Tim Ferguson at Jan 15, 2006 1:48:26 PM
hmm...
Posted by: Fr. Totton at Jan 15, 2006 1:48:54 PM
Alas, yes...
Oh, and the reader read the wrong 2nd reading. We got St. Paul on the variety of gifts rather than the need to avoid immorality. It wasn't last Sunday's or next Sunday's, so I'm assuming it was the wrong liturgical year.
Posted by: scotch meg at Jan 15, 2006 1:50:48 PM
I sat through "Here I Am, Lord" today at the 11 AM Mass at St. Michael's in Silver Spring, MD. Good priests, bad music. The bad music always gets me thinking, and this time wondering if God has notions of taste and recognition of excellence. I mean, there's Bach and Beethoven. There's Handel. I am convinced that there's the hand of the Lord in marble (Michelangelo), in words (Dante), in oil (Rubens). But in a world that possesses the C Minor Mass, the Icelandic Sagas, and Albrecht Durer, where does Dan Schutte, the poet of "Footprints" and Thomas Kinkade fit in? I know it's a stupid question to ask but did mediocrity exist in the Garden, or was it a consequence of the Fall of Man? Who takes the blame for Thomas Kinkade?
Oh, and the psalm reading today was from Psalm 40. And you know it's bad when you realize that U2's setting of the song is better than what's in the misselette.
Posted by: TheLeague at Jan 15, 2006 2:00:47 PM
No, and judging by the music leaflet, wasn't sung at any of the other masses at St. Matt's this weekend.
Posted by: paul at Jan 15, 2006 2:01:52 PM
Here in our country parish in the English Midlands, we ignored 'Here I am' altogether - homily was on the 'Lamb of God' and so we sang 'Crown him with many crowns'; 'At the Lamb's High Feast'; 'O Godhead Hid'; and 'Hail Redeemer King divine'. We also had Credo III for good measure (as we do each Sunday).
Posted by: Joe at Jan 15, 2006 2:05:46 PM
On behalf of our choir, I apologize for inflicting this cheese on our community.
Posted by: mio at Jan 15, 2006 2:12:15 PM
Yeah, we sang it, along with Haugen's "Gather Us In" and Haas's "We are Called". I don't remember getting all three of my "favorites" at the same Mass before.
Posted by: Chad at Jan 15, 2006 2:15:12 PM
Whoaaaa . . . i worshiped at a Methodist parish today, and . . . wait for it . . . we sang :Here I Am, Lord"!
Universal indeed . . .
[/snark]
Posted by: Jeff at Jan 15, 2006 2:32:51 PM
Yeah, we sang it, too--during Communion, no less! Or rather, I should say that we "sang" it, since, as it's essentially unsingable, hardly anyone in the church actually joined the song. Wish I'd been able to go to Joe's church.
Posted by: Charlotte Allen at Jan 15, 2006 2:32:58 PM
We did not have "Here I am," but the psalm response was, "Here I am, Lord, hear I am, I come to do your will," in a contemporary setting. I had all three Masses with music (our retired priest had the Mass sans musical accompaniment). I can't recall the opening hymn at two of the Masses, the third was "praise-style" song; our youth minister wants to try some music in that vein and I said fine, we'll see how it goes. The closing hymn was "City of God," which I don't care much for, but I can tolerate it as long as we don't sing it all the time. The preparation hymn was "The Summons," which isn't bad, except some of the language is a little odd, "if your life should attract or scare," "kiss the leper clean." At one of the Masses, we needed a second communion hymn, and the organist played the Omer Westendorf hymn, "You satisfy the hungry heart," which I think is very fine. I don't recall the main communion hymn.
My homily was about vocations, principally to the priesthood (2nd week in a row).
Posted by: Fr Martin Fox (Septimus) at Jan 15, 2006 2:38:24 PM
Nope, not at the Mass I attended.
Posted by: LC at Jan 15, 2006 2:41:45 PM
hand up
Posted by: David Nowaczewski at Jan 15, 2006 2:42:17 PM
Raises hand. (Communion Hymn)
But--all the other hymns were great old Protestant ones--The Church's One Foundation, Praises and Thanksgiving, etc.
This comes from our parish's having recently invested in the St. Michael's hymnbook. (yay!)
Posted by: little gidding at Jan 15, 2006 2:42:40 PM
Nope. We got "Gather Us In" instead. Oh-n- "They'll Know We are Christians"
Posted by: Steve Nicoloso at Jan 15, 2006 2:44:03 PM
... but we DID chant the sending... which was a first for me.
Posted by: Steve Nicoloso at Jan 15, 2006 2:45:12 PM
At the risk of sounding like Pauline Kael, I don't know anyone who likes "Here I am Lord." Does anyone?
Posted by: Patrick Rothwell at Jan 15, 2006 2:46:26 PM
yes, we sang it too, in the lutheran church. i don't dislike it particularly, even though it's from that ghastly "new" hymnal :)
Posted by: george schmauch at Jan 15, 2006 2:50:37 PM
Yep, we had it too. (I went to the Newman Center this weekend, though, so can't speak for my usual parish, which usually has EXCELLENT music - now I'm curious about what they did!) At least there was no "They Will Know We Are Christians" - that's the one that really steams me. And the homily was excellent. But oh lord, the music ...
Posted by: Sonetka at Jan 15, 2006 2:54:12 PM
We did the double: "Gather Us In" for the processional and "Here I Am for Communion." But the Offetory Hymn was an odd thing to the tune of "Ode to Joy" called "Those Who Love and Those Who Labor" which includes a quote from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas (at which point I stopped singing it). The "praise song" was an unfamiliar one about walking along the seashore set to a traditional tune.
But the pastor gave a good sermon on the influence of spiritual mentors, encouraging us to be such guides.
Posted by: Sandra Miesel at Jan 15, 2006 2:56:49 PM
