This may sound really sick, but I like the song "Gather Us In".  I haven't attended a novus ordo worship service in a couple years but I do like this song.

Anyone else have any guilty pleasures?  (Hymn related - not the other stuff!)

"How Beautiful" by Twila Paris and the Sanctus sung in the NO mass which I think might be the one by Haydn.

This harpist http://youtu.be/LYtr1vq0DaY?t=40s played "How Beautiful" at my wedding.

This may sound really sick, but I like the song "Gather Us In".  I haven't attended a novus ordo worship service in a couple years but I do like this song.

Anyone else have any guilty pleasures?  (Hymn related - not the other stuff!)

I don't know if doctors can cure that.  Yikes!

When I was around 12 years old, my family was at the NOM while visiting family. During the collection, the choir sang "Take Our Bread." My dad just started laughing and said, "They certainly are."

I was blessed enough to have been spared the very worst of the NO musical dreck as a child... In our parish it never got much worse than treacly fluff like "One Bread, One Body."

I thought "Sing a New Church" was an urban legend when it was first described to me... I mean, really, it seemed "Too good to be true"... basically an admission of every trad allegation ever made against the "NewChurch." I honestly doubted such a boldly, proudly, unambiguously heretical song could have actually been written, let alone actually sung in churches purporting to be Catholic...

And then, one darksome day a few years back, I heard it.... in my childhood parish church.

I feel compelled to describe what I witnessed at the one and only "Charismatic" Mass I've ever attended (in the very first days of my return to the Faith)... In a beautiful old church on Manhattan's upper east side, I found myself the only non-Filipino (other than the priest) in a congregation full of ostensibly Catholic (but apparently pentecostal protestant) merry-makers. During the Offertory, the pews came alive as a band (complete with drums, tambourine, keyboard, bass & guitar) of five teenagers led the crowd in a rousing, foot stomping rendition of "What a Mighty God We Serve," which briefly interluded - I kid you not - into the Hokey-Pokey. The entire congregation (except for the blank-faced caucazoid near the back who is now typing these words) put their left hands in, put their left hands out, put their left hands in, shook them all about, did the hokey pokey and turned themselves about. Seeing as how the "Hokey Pokey" was written as a protestant mockery of the Catholic Mass, it was a highly appropriate selection for a Charismatic service.

Oh, and the answer to the question posed by the OP, is a big resounding "no."

I like the song too, but only if you use the right words:

Here in this place, a bad song is starting,
Now will the altar turn into a stage.
All that is holy is slowly departing,
Making a way for the coming New Age.

Refrain:
Here in this place, our comfortable parish,
All of the statues carried away,
See in each face a vacuous visage,
Brought here by guilt or by R.C.I.A.

Gather us in, by Bimmer or Hummer,
Gather us in, so we can feel good,
Come to us now in this barren Zen temple,
With only a shrub and an altar of wood.

We are the young, our morals a mystery,
We are the old, who couldn't care less,
We have been warned throughout all of history,
But we enjoy this liturgical mess.

Gather us in, our radical pastor,
Gather us in, our unveiled nun,
Call to us now, with guitars and bongos,
Hang up your cellphones and join in the fun!

Here we will take some wine and some water,
Whether it changes, we really don't care.
But when the Sign of Peace comes, our pastor,
Jumps from the altar and hugs like a bear.

Gather us in, the privileged and snobby,
Gather us in, the liberal elite,
Help us to form our personal Credo,
Give us a choice between white bread and wheat.

I like the international jubilee piece written a French composer.  Andre boccelli sings it.

I really like Glory, Glory, Alleluia for the Novus Ordo:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of liturgical reform,
It is to the modern era to which we now must all conform,
It is with inclusive liturgy the Church we will transform.
Paul the Sixth is marching on!

Glory, glory to the Council,
Glory, glory to the Council,
Glory, glory to the Council,
Paul the Sixth is marching on!

We have stripped out every altar and we’ve taken down the rail,
For now all elaborate ritual we must try to curtail,
And then ‘noble simplicity’ will finally prevail.
Paul the Sixth is marching on!

Glory, glory…

All errors of the Old Church, with our changes, we have solved,
For now at the new communion we are all to be involved,
And by general absolution, we will have our sins absolved.
Paul the Sixth is marching on!

Glory, glory…

Now some illiberals claim that we are emptying the pews,
But the only ones to leave us are the ones we want to lose,
We will fill all empty places with Mohammedans and Jєωs,
Paul the Sixth is marching on!

Glory, glory…

We have entered into dialogue with every kind of sect,
Since for all of their beliefs we have the greatest of respect,
It’s this inter-faith discussion that the new Mass should reflect.
Paul the Sixth is marching on!

Glory, glory…


I just wish I knew the composer so I could give him the credit he deserves!

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My sides!