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Regarding this topic, the late Dr. William Peter Mahrt of Stanford University once made a statement I’ll never forget.
You simply must play this chord!
Including a splendid harmonization of “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name.”
The most comprehensive German hymnal ever printed? Well, this masterpiece by Monsignor Stemmer is certainly in the top five!
This statement by the “Una Voce” president strikes me as inaccurate.
Did you know Catholics began translating hymns from Latin into the vernacular about 400 years before the Protestant Revolution?
Venerable Pope Pius XII explicitly allowed vernacular hymns during High Mass in 1958.
Vernacular hymns at Communion during EF High Mass—your thoughts?
Just because I’m aware of something that happened in the past doesn’t mean I endorse it.
How utterly strange to see such items!
Were you shocked to see the Pius XII Hymnal assigning vernacular hymns to different parts of the Mass?
In spite of what you may have read online, hymns in English were often sung during Low Mass.
If they were set upon avoiding the word “men,” I wish ICEL would have done something like “peace on earth to *those* of good will.”
A “Dialogue” Low Mass with singing (c. 1958) by choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Can you imagine singing all those vernacular hymns while Mass is happening?
