HERETICAL HYMNS
Song: In the Garden
Gnostic theology: based on one’s direct experience of God.
Song: Amazing Grace
“the hour I first believed.” - Protestant theology: one time saved.
Song: Sing a New Church
Want to replace the Church Jesus founded?
Song: Ashes
“We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew." - We can't. Only Christ can.
Song: For the Healing of the Nations
"Dogmas that obscure your plan." - Catholic Dogmas “obscure” God's plan?
RITUS NARCISSUS
“The myth of Narcissus provides a good lesson for modern liturgy. The handsome young man, so enchanted with his own looks, sat gazing at his reflection in the water. He could not bring himself to leave his image and so grew rooted to the spot, admiring himself.
Too many current songs encourage us to do the same. We talk to ourselves and sing love songs to ourselves. Just as Narcissus's self-adulation rendered himself incapable of a relationship and therefore of love, so also these hymns of conceit cripple our ability to speak with God. If God sees that we are so smitten with our own presence, He may judge us unfit to enter His.” (Why Do We Sing Ourselves and Celebrate Ourselves? by Fr Paul Scalia)
The presence of Christ among the faithful is blatantly overemphasized. Can this be heresy, God complex, arrogance... presumption... vainglory... or just plain ignorance? Do people even realize what ordure they sing to God? God does...
Song: Anthem
“We are called, we are chosen.
We are Christ for one another” - Christ means Messiah; can any one of us be the Messiah?
Song: Gather Us In
We are this and this and that... Who are we singing this to? Are we there to sing about ourselves? Doesn't God already know who we are.... what we are?
Song: Table of Plenty
“Come to the feast of heaven and earth!
Come to the table of plenty!
God will provide for all that we need” - Why are we singing to each other?
“O, come and sit at my table where saints and sinners are friends” - Whose table? Why are we singing God's lines?
Song: This Bread That We Share
“We become for each other the bread, the cup”
the presence of Christ revealed”- ???
Song: Hosea
“Come back to me with all your heart, don't let fear keep us apart.
Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life” - Who is speaking to whom here?
Song: Gifts of Bread and Wine
“I am with you in this bread and wine” - Who is “I AM” - and why are we singing as if we were? - Not only that, but Christ is not with us in "bread" and "wine". Holy Communion is not bread and wine!
Song: Taste and See
My God loves me He comes to me / in sharing bread and wine - NO, NO, NO! Not in “bread and wine”!
Song: Fill My House
"... eat my bread and drink my wine" - No, I will not “eat bread” or “drink wine”
More I am God/I am Jesus Songs:
You are Mine
Alleluia, I will Come
Return to Me
This Is My Body
I Will Never Forget You
I Am the Bread of Life
I Am the Resurrection
I Will Sweep Away Your Transgressions
We are neither the Bread of Life, nor the Resurrection, nor can we sweep away anyone's transgressions. So why are we singing these songs to the One who is and who can?
Of course THIS one tops it all!
Song: Take and Eat
“Take and eat; take and eat:
This is my body given up for you.
Take and drink; take and drink:
This is my blood given up for you.” - Word of Consecration as refrain!
Songs Devoid of doctrinal content:
Lord of the Dance
Walk With Me O My Lord
Follow Me
Bind Us Together
God's Spirit is in My Heart
Stupid Songs: Sing to the Mountains"
We don't go to Mass to sing to the mountains or to the sea. We go to Mass to sing to God.
Unknown to most laypeople the Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) is the leading supplier of BAD liturgical music. Distributing 17 million copies of missaletts and an endless supply of Glory and Praise hymnals the OPC provides a steady stream of “musical candy” for the English speaking world. New Dawn Music, Pastoral Press, North American Liturgy Resources, Trinitas, TEAM Publications, White Dove Productions, and Cooperative Ministries all belong to the OPC. Liturgical music is quite a monopoly. But that is not all. The OCP also holds 10,000 music copyrights. Is it any wonder that we are all clapping to the same insipid pop tunes across North America, England and Australia? Yes, those dreadful copies of the Glory and Praise hymnals just keep reappearing in different colors in the pews. Let me see... we had blue, green, and burgundy... When the current hymnals wear out we should be getting the silver addition. The jacket cover will sport a new color, but the songs will be much the same. With no ecclesiastical authority the OCP has been charting liturgical music for the mass for four decades now. The original "St. Louis Jesuits" should be on the way out, but have no fear Buck Almighty has scores of marketing experts to carry on with the work. Tucker calls this Power Without Authority. In the end it all boils down to the buck and what incredible power that has! (The Hidden Hand Behind Bad Catholic Music by J.A. Tucker)
Song: Sing a New Church
Want to replace the Church Jesus founded?
Song: Ashes
“We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew." - We can't. Only Christ can.
Song: For the Healing of the Nations
"Dogmas that obscure your plan." - Catholic Dogmas “obscure” God's plan?
RITUS NARCISSUS
“The myth of Narcissus provides a good lesson for modern liturgy. The handsome young man, so enchanted with his own looks, sat gazing at his reflection in the water. He could not bring himself to leave his image and so grew rooted to the spot, admiring himself.
Too many current songs encourage us to do the same. We talk to ourselves and sing love songs to ourselves. Just as Narcissus's self-adulation rendered himself incapable of a relationship and therefore of love, so also these hymns of conceit cripple our ability to speak with God. If God sees that we are so smitten with our own presence, He may judge us unfit to enter His.” (Why Do We Sing Ourselves and Celebrate Ourselves? by Fr Paul Scalia)
The presence of Christ among the faithful is blatantly overemphasized. Can this be heresy, God complex, arrogance... presumption... vainglory... or just plain ignorance? Do people even realize what ordure they sing to God? God does...
Song: Anthem
“We are called, we are chosen.
We are Christ for one another” - Christ means Messiah; can any one of us be the Messiah?
Song: Gather Us In
We are this and this and that... Who are we singing this to? Are we there to sing about ourselves? Doesn't God already know who we are.... what we are?
Song: Table of Plenty
“Come to the feast of heaven and earth!
Come to the table of plenty!
God will provide for all that we need” - Why are we singing to each other?
“O, come and sit at my table where saints and sinners are friends” - Whose table? Why are we singing God's lines?
Song: This Bread That We Share
“We become for each other the bread, the cup”
the presence of Christ revealed”- ???
Song: Hosea
“Come back to me with all your heart, don't let fear keep us apart.
Long have I waited for your coming home to me and living deeply our new life” - Who is speaking to whom here?
Song: Gifts of Bread and Wine
“I am with you in this bread and wine” - Who is “I AM” - and why are we singing as if we were? - Not only that, but Christ is not with us in "bread" and "wine". Holy Communion is not bread and wine!
Song: Taste and See
My God loves me He comes to me / in sharing bread and wine - NO, NO, NO! Not in “bread and wine”!
Song: Fill My House
"... eat my bread and drink my wine" - No, I will not “eat bread” or “drink wine”
More I am God/I am Jesus Songs:
You are Mine
Alleluia, I will Come
Return to Me
This Is My Body
I Will Never Forget You
I Am the Bread of Life
I Am the Resurrection
I Will Sweep Away Your Transgressions
We are neither the Bread of Life, nor the Resurrection, nor can we sweep away anyone's transgressions. So why are we singing these songs to the One who is and who can?
Of course THIS one tops it all!
Song: Take and Eat
“Take and eat; take and eat:
This is my body given up for you.
Take and drink; take and drink:
This is my blood given up for you.” - Word of Consecration as refrain!
Songs Devoid of doctrinal content:
Lord of the Dance
Walk With Me O My Lord
Follow Me
Bind Us Together
God's Spirit is in My Heart
Stupid Songs: Sing to the Mountains"
We don't go to Mass to sing to the mountains or to the sea. We go to Mass to sing to God.
Unknown to most laypeople the Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) is the leading supplier of BAD liturgical music. Distributing 17 million copies of missaletts and an endless supply of Glory and Praise hymnals the OPC provides a steady stream of “musical candy” for the English speaking world. New Dawn Music, Pastoral Press, North American Liturgy Resources, Trinitas, TEAM Publications, White Dove Productions, and Cooperative Ministries all belong to the OPC. Liturgical music is quite a monopoly. But that is not all. The OCP also holds 10,000 music copyrights. Is it any wonder that we are all clapping to the same insipid pop tunes across North America, England and Australia? Yes, those dreadful copies of the Glory and Praise hymnals just keep reappearing in different colors in the pews. Let me see... we had blue, green, and burgundy... When the current hymnals wear out we should be getting the silver addition. The jacket cover will sport a new color, but the songs will be much the same. With no ecclesiastical authority the OCP has been charting liturgical music for the mass for four decades now. The original "St. Louis Jesuits" should be on the way out, but have no fear Buck Almighty has scores of marketing experts to carry on with the work. Tucker calls this Power Without Authority. In the end it all boils down to the buck and what incredible power that has! (The Hidden Hand Behind Bad Catholic Music by J.A. Tucker)
