@expeditus1

Jeffrey, have never been to one of those. Do they have anything to do with jesters, jugglers, and jousters under the Big Tent?

They take place in either the hall or a big lobby ... or both.

Vibrant

Wow, this has become quite a popular thread, probably because it's a "vent thread" :P

podium/rostrum

NPM

children's Christmas Pageant (at Mass)

Banner Art (Praise Banners/Worship Banners)

We are CHURCH

If you're the Church, then I Be Not Not Afraid.

"The first reading is a reading from the book ..."
"The second reading is is a reading from the letter..."

These always grates on my nerves. Also, calling the ambo the "pulpit."

Sacrament of Reconciliation (instead of Sacrament of Penance)

I agree. Faith Community has to go. What's wrong with the word "parish"? "Sending forth" is another phrase that needs to be "sent forth." "MInistry of the Assembly" is another one that needs to go.

"Vibrant" is another word that should also go, as well as the phrase "multi-cultural liturgies" and any other buzzword in the OCP arsenal.

The word "pastoral" needs to beat a hasty retreat. Another phrase that should be excised from our liturgical lexicon is "Call to Worship".

Francis, I think it has something to do with all of us having received "The Great Commission" and being "sealed in the spirit" and "blown by the wind."

Folk Mass

Remember that 'colorful era in American Catholicism?' All snarkiness aside, this popular discussion started by Ben Yanke has given me a ping in the heart. The past 40+ years was some bad psychadelic trip. I remember vividly the bewilderment I felt as a child, when the "New Springtime" swept through my own parish. Some of us schoolchildren were paraded up in the Sanctuary (the beautiful murals I used to stare at were now painted over with boomerang thing-a-ma'-jiggies) with our guitars, where we led the congregation in songs with lyrics which perplexed me. We were "trending" though. I can now safely say, all personal bias aside, that our music stunk up the place. Can someone, please, provide me with closure, all these years later, and tell me the name of that song I led back then, which had as its lyrics, "....a few spoons of beans for the day.....rats crawl from holes in the walls..."? Another troubling song for me was, "But Then Comes the Morning" (lyrics follow). I felt stupid because I couldn't understand what the significance of the robots was.

Look at him stripped on the hill
running the streets poorly clad
robots have taken his job
his hands are outstretched for the nails (refrain)

refrain:
Forgive Lord, forgive. It was night when we did what we did....
But then comes the morning yesterdays sorrows behind
wake it's the day of your longing. life returns, mercy comes, it's morning.

Look at him nailed to the cross.
Nailed by our lack of concern
Locked and forgotten in jail
Confined to a home for the aged. (refrain)

Look at him die on the cross
witness man's cruelty to man
cut down like weeds in our wars
stabbed on the streets where we live. (refrain)

I am reminded of the following Position Statement:

On behalf of the Society for Ethnomusicology the SEM Board of
Directors approves the Position Statement against the Use of Music as
Torture, which originated in the SEM Ethics Committee and has the
unanimous support of the Board of Directors.

The Society for Ethnomusicology condemns the use of torture in any
form. An international scholarly society founded in 1955, the Society
for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and its members are devoted to the research,
study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural
contexts. The SEM is committed to the ethical uses of music to further
human understanding and to uphold the highest standards of human
rights. The Society is equally committed to drawing critical attention
to the abuse of such standards through the unethical uses of music to
harm individuals and the societies in which they live.

The Society for Ethnomusicology

* calls for full disclosure of programs that design the means of
delivering music as torture;
* condemns the use of music as an instrument of torture; and
* demands that agencies cease using music as an instrument of
physical and psychological torture.

Suggested link

For further information on the American history and praxis of using
music as an instrument of torture, the Society for Ethnomusicology
recommends the following article:

Suzanne Cusick,
"Music as Torture, Music as Weapon," Revista Transcultural de
Música/Transcultural Music Review 10 (2006).

are we still climbing jacobs ladder?
is the answer still blowin in the friggin wind?
is it still a brand new day ?... and is everthing still fine?

ok... i am literally preaching to the choir.

http://www.tommcfaul.com/escritaria/litmusic.html

Oh, goodness, chonak! That was a nostalgic walk down the Hall of Shame. I feel like I need absolution from my display of poor guitar-fretting skills while in the Sanctuary. I should, also, probably confess that some of those hanging banners made out of felt, stencils, glitter, sequins, yarn, string, buttons, and glue were crafted by us schoolchildren, as assigned by "higher-ups."

Kind of otherworldly isn't it, benedictgal, to have been a "player" in the two turnarounds - the near demise of sacred music back then, and the restoration movement, now. Heave in the harness!

Responsorial Psalm

JMO: on February 5 referred to WLP as labelling the Missal's antiphons as "songs." Back th ithe 1980's WLP pointed these texts to be sung to a few monastic tones. Other texts were pointed too: all of the ordinaries and the psalms, alleluia, and all the propers. The time is right for OCP or WLP to retrun to this practice. But only with monasitc, Chabanal or Mienrad tones!

(during Mass): bingo, parish festival, pierogis, corned beef and cabbage, bake sale, raffle, ...

"and for me that's just where it is....

Persons come into the fiber of our lives,
and then their shadow fades and disappears."
all I ask of you

Ralph, I assume you are referring to the song, "All I Ask of You," written by Gregory Norbert, O.S.B. (Weston Priory). I saw a YouTube video of it, and understand Randolph's reefer reference. The lyrics below expound so brilliantly, the key tenets of our Faith:

Deep the joy of being together in one heart
and for me that’s just where it is.

All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you.
All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you.

As we make our way through all the joys and pain,
can we sense our younger, truer selves?

Someone will be calling you to be there for a while.
Can you hear the cry from deep within?

Laughter, joy and presence: the only gifts you are.
Have you time? I’d like to be with you.

Persons come into the fiber of our lives,
and then their shadow fades and disappears.

All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you.

I was wondering if there were a plagiarism issue with the song "Remember Your Love" by Darryl Ducote/Gary Daigle. (It's in the OCP Today's Missal Music Issue.) We've been singing that at my church every Lent, and I don't think something that sounds like "Pure Imagination" from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is a good Lenten song. I couldn't find anything about this online...does anyone here know?

Oh my, expeditus, a sacred song without any religion in it whatsoever. Better we should sing "We all come from the Goddess..."; at least there's a deity there.

(during Mass): bingo, parish festival, pierogis, corned beef and cabbage, bake sale, raffle, ... -CHGiffen

"Pierogis" should be banned outside of Mass, too. "Pierog" is singular and "pierogi" is already plural. If no one ever orders a plate of spaghettis or raviolis, why can't Polish get the same respect?