I prefer "Glory and Praise Volume 3"



I recall how my brothers an I acquired a very hard-to-find copy of "Volume 4" that very few people knew existed, and it contained the Carey Landry favorite "Giant Love Ball" among other hits.

At one point at STAS, Marshall Roberts was playing the organ and mentioned that he might play something from "Glory and Praise," and I told him (tongue-in-cheek) that I'd go over there and drag him off his seat / bench by his surplice during Mass if he tried it.

Ouch!:laugh1: Giant Love Ball.......angels and ministers of grace defend us!


Our little chapel has low masses and the rare sung Masses. We technically dont have a choir. Just myself (baritone bass) and my young soprano (also of Polish descent). She has had musical training which has made it possible for us to sing classical Latin hymns. 

We have sung pieces by Bruckner (the easier motets);; several versions of Ave Verum Corpus; several versions of O Salutaris Hostia;
Non nobis Domine (Henry V version); Several versions of the staple Marian hymns.We are in hope of doing Mozart's Laudate Dominum and Lacrimosa.

I dont care for the congregational process/recess hymns as much, but until the priests are willing to do more Sung Masses, and until we get an influx of more men for the schola, things will not change much.

I find with my health really tanking again, the ability and enthusiasm to pour the time and effort into singing has waned. 

Ah well. Hopefully I will heal up soon and return to Mass. At least I made it to Midnight Mass and sang a few Polish koledy along with decent English Christmas carols for the processional.

On the lighter side, I would enjoy singing "Send us Thine Asteroid O Lord", and a Latin version of "Going up to the Spirit in the Sky"......
Habemus amicus in Iesu 

How beautiful it must have been to live in a Carthusian monastery. Can you imagine the silence? One could say that silence is the sound of God.

I'm right there with you, but that kind of life and spirituality isn't for everyone.

I would miss all the good music that Christendom hath produced. Always a battle between the music of the Ainur and the discord of Melkor.

And now for something ear bleedingly awful yet funny in a pathetic way....

It could be worse!  Bring back the warmly old ladies!

The seasonal Marian anthems in Latin and in simple tone at the end of Low Mass, after the Leonine prayers, sung by everyone earnestly and humbly, with due attention and effort, is a beautiful thing.

:fryingpan:40 day’s fast on bread and water plus daily scourging for any choir or person who sings or allows any of the following,

Days of Elijah,
Shine, Jesus, Shine
Let There Be Peace on Earth,
Peace is Flowing Like a River,
Kum-Bye-Yah,
Jehovah Jireh,
Awesome God,
El Shaddai
or any other VII or Protestant, Messianic, or ‘contemporary’ Christian muzak! 

I'm not familiar with most of those (I never attended Novus Ordo) but one of them stands out: "Awesome God"

Why throw in that one with all the other crap? Don't get me wrong, it's not suitable for Church (during Mass or otherwise) but as a SONG, one you might play at home while cleaning the house -- what's wrong with it exactly?

I'm thinking of this version in particular:



I can find nothing wrong with the lyrics. Beyond not having any heresy in them, some of the lyrics actually hit pretty hard.
This song actually seems to militate against the "keep God on a leash like a lapdog, to trot out on Sunday" tendency that most moderns are guilty of. It also says that sin is a big deal.

-Matthew
(Forgot to hit the Anonymous box, like so many others... I wish I could fix that.)

You forgot:

 Here I am Lord
 Gather us in
 Michael row the boat ashore
 On eagles wings
 Bringing in the sheaves
 Shall we gather at the river
Ole Methusalah
Cross Our Arms, Cross Our Hearts

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