tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post3089036599039920296..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: An interesting view of contemporary Christian song. . .Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-62359357451417343202015-03-18T05:29:19.758-05:002015-03-18T05:29:19.758-05:00How do you know there are more than 2 Lutherans in...How do you know there are more than 2 Lutherans in a room? When they start complaining about the service or some hymn. At least the songs mentioned above aren't happy-clappy stuff.Ted Badjehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220879004715648795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-66627007577098339512015-03-17T15:43:38.442-05:002015-03-17T15:43:38.442-05:00A few years ago I was flipping channels in a hotel...A few years ago I was flipping channels in a hotel room and stopped on a Roman Catholic channel broadcasting a recording of a Mass. A woman was singing "You satisfy the hungry heart." I'd never heard it before and I thought it was some kind of contemporary worship thing. Didn't pay much attention to it.After that, I've noticed my pastor using this as a communion hymn perhaps as much as once a month, which means a Lutheran Communion hymn gets dropped. I'm not sure why a 1970s Roman Catholic hymn ended up in the Lutheran Service Book. <br /><br />From a Roman Catholic education website:<br /><br />A fifty-year ban is in order here. As it is for "Gift of Finest Wheat." The late Omer Westendorf did a lot for liturgical renewal, but he was no poet (as his attempt to improve on Luther in his rewrite of "A Mighty Fortress" "the guns and nuclear might/stand withered in his sight" should have demonstrated). Why Mr. Westendorf was commissioned to write the official hymn for the 1976 International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia is one of the minor mysteries of recent years. "You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat/Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat" isn't heresy. But it's awful poetry, and it can be read in ways that intensify today's confusions over the Real Presence. It, too, goes under the fifty-year ban.Timothy C. Schenkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11770741345144496175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-25510574509346411182015-03-17T15:34:27.706-05:002015-03-17T15:34:27.706-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Timothy C. Schenkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11770741345144496175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-31360747240524222712015-03-17T08:49:05.071-05:002015-03-17T08:49:05.071-05:00As Craig Parton says, "Thank Heaven the Baby ...As Craig Parton says, "Thank Heaven the Baby Boomers are all going to die." It is good that we will no longer be influencing the Kum Ba Yah church. It will hopefully be a good thing, if the Millenials, Gen X & Y take up the task with a serious attitude. Unfortunately, we are all curved in on ourselves, and listening to much of Indie and Contemporary "industrial" music doesn't give me great hope...Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.com