Check out this letter that a cantor had sent to Fr. Z. Someone's got a black list going around. I don't think it's the USCCB or its CDW that's circulated it yet. Could be a diocese, or perhaps a pastor. The disapproved song in question is We Remember (that would bring a smile on my face as well as the face of the cantor who wrote the letter; btw, that cantor's music director was a little more sheepish about it).
Speaking of bad music...
Meanwhile, in the combox of the same post, you'll see the hideous song Ashes being tossed about. While they question whether or not it's heretical or pelegian or what not, I question the song's general intelligence ---
WHY WOULD ANY CATHOLIC MUSIC PUBLISHER IN HIS/HER/ITS RIGHT MIND PUBLISH A SONG WHERE THE WORD STUMBLINGS IS WRITTEN IN THREE SYLLABLES AND INCLUDE ITS USE IN A WORSHIP AID FOR CONGREGATIONS???
Third line of verse 2: Give our stum-bl-ings direction...
Seriously - it sounds like it came from a three-year-old that uses the four-syllable type-a-writer. The average adult congregation, I believe, and even the average children's congregation, is a lot smarter than that.
Peace,
BMP
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HAHAHA! The word "Stum-buh-lings" of course describes little stumbles, "Stum-buh" being the Indian deity, Christianized by St. Thomas, in charge of keeping the feet away of little pebbles and stones in the path that might cause one to "stum-bul". The city of "I-stum-bul" literally means "I tripped on the joker's legs in front of me in the communion line when he decided to genuflect before receiving." In our modern Christianity, one confesses one's "stum-buh-lings" in the reconciliation room, which the German-speaking author Heinrich Heine so aptly described in the 19the century as "the outhouse of the conscence". That little name got him placed on the Vatican index of banned authors. I guess his little whit made him "stum-bul" too.
JP
Granted, the "stumbalumba" line is awful, but "we offer you attempts" doesn't sing much better.
You're right David. It doesn't. And the melody is as butt ugly as any church that Dick Vosko either built or bastardized. You haven't had to endure that song at BS yet have you? I was lucky on Ash Wednesday - all the hymns were from People's Mass Book. I particularly liked the 16th century rythym in "This is our accepted time".
BMP
That song is so poorly constructed it is almost laughable. If it didn't say I "was going to create myself anew", it would be laughable. Instead it just sad and I refuse to sing it.
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