Some places on the internet (note the publications date to the article linked from the Knoxville diocese is TOMORROW,) have a new article from CNS, the official organ of the USCCB, I believe? that puts an entirely different coloration on the forthcoming document on music from our American shepherd's.
But the CNS website does not have it.
At the Liturgy Committee meeting (where i had the feeling they didn't really want to know what little I had to report about the agenda of upcoming assembly, which no one else seemed to know much about, although the promulgation of a simplified new rite for a Eucharistic celebration in the absence of a priest for weekdays is especially pertinent, say this week, when all our priests will be away at a diocesan retreat,) I had said, sort of reassuringly, that the actual directory doesn't seem to be on the table, so we don't need to "worry" about that yet. (although actually, of course, I am less worried than hopeful, since it seems possible that it will put the kabosh on such Selebrating Our Selves Songs as "let us build a house," or "let us be bread" or "we are called we are chosen, ....we are creed..." or "we are the light of the world" -- that's my passive-aggressive meeting demeanor at its worst.)
Of course it still doesn't seem imminent
But it also promises to have within three years a directory of liturgical songs for use in U.S. parishes.
But 3 years is really a very short time -- maybe now would be a good time to start weaning the people off such thin gruel and starting them on the road to true liturgical song.
Saturday, 20 October 2007
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