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Have you ever sang certain hymns and wonder just where they went?  Well, today we start a little series of hymns that we miss over here, and we're using a hymnal that I'll bet is hardly remembered - the 1976 (premiere) edition of We Celebrate (The picture on the left is one of the logos I describe).  We combed through just the first 50 hymns alone and you should see what we came up with.  Also, we combed through all four editions of Worship and came up with a new hymnal containing the best of all four: Worship - Ultimate Edition!
PLUS: Duck and cover (just ask Shamus O'Reilly), and a law student who wants to play, but doesn't want to pay!

Feasts for the Week: March 11-18
In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: the "have done" for First Friday and the Second Sunday of Lent, and the "going to do" for the Third Sunday of Lent.
Miscellaneous Outburst: What have you given up for Lent?
Commercial: König Ludwig Weissbier
Music: 2nd Movement of the Kyrie (2e Couplet du Kyrie) from Mass of the Convents (Messe pour les Couvents) (written by Francois Couperin), played by organist Corey Powell, courtesy of the Classic Cat.
Top Ten New Hymn Authors Lined Up for Gather Fourth Edition
Don't Do This at Church: Barney, guns, and sheep!

Additional Links:
The Lord's Kindness is Everlasting (.pdf) by Jeff Ostrowski
Glory and Praise to You (.pdf) by yours truly
I Will Walk before the Lord (.pdf) by Richard Rice
Twin Hymntunes (CVA #56); Hymn written by John Quincy Adams

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We're covering a couple of topics in this hour (give or take 14 seconds) of fun! One answers the question of what a funeral is like at my parish.  What music do I play?  What music do we allow and disallow?  We cover that, as well as play a good number of pieces from a recent funeral.  The other describes the differences, improvements, and declines in the four hymnals pictured at left.  Also, does a pop singer deserve to have the American flag flown at half-mast?
Feasts for the Week: February 22-March 4
Don't Do This at Church: Ashes on the fly!
Commercial: Krakowska Kielbasa
In What We Have Done and In What We're Going to Do: "Have done" for the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time and Ash Wednesday, and "Going to do" for the First Sunday of Lent.
Random Thought: Bad mixes
Hymnody in Inflationary Language: Shamus O'Reilly lists some interesting "inflated" Lenten hymn titles.  Also, get a load of what he's giving up for Lent!

Music:
1. Requiem Aeternam (Chant, Mode VI); 2. Lift High the Cross (tune: Crucifer)
3. Alleluia (written by Theodore Marier, with funeral verse sung to Psalm Tone 5)
4. Glory and Praise to You (written by yours truly, based on Vexilla Regis, Chant, Mode I)
5. Sanctus XVIII; 6. Mortem Tuam Annuntiamus, Domine (from Jubilate Deo)
7. Agnus Dei XVIII (Missa Pro Defunctis version); 8. Lux Aeterna (Chant, Mode VIII)
9. Let Thy Blood in Mercy Poured (tune: Jesus, Meine Zuversicht)
10. I Believe that My Redeemer Lives (written by Henri St. Louis)
11. In Paradisum (Chant, Mode VII/VIII)
12. Ave Verum (written by Camille Saint-Saens), sung by the Choeur de Marais, brought to you by The Classic Cat.

Additional Link:  GIA Publications

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iSNARK! 185

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The second in a series of new hymnals to be reviewed. This time, we review GIA's new flagship hymnal, Worship - Fourth Edition.
Also: Happy Ordinary Time! Or is it Happy Post-Epiphany? That, and moveable feasts for 2012 and 2013.
Feasts for the Week covers feasts from January 14-22.
Two instances of Don't Do This at Church, and the usual commercials, scattered within.
In What We Have Done, and in What We're Going to Do: What we did for the feast day of Blessed Brother Andre Bessette (in which Richard Chonak from the Catholic Light blog discovers a hymn with 14 verses) and the Epiphany, and what we're doing for Sunday II of Ordinary Time.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Kingsfold Edition, brought to you by the Society for a Moratorium on the Music of Marty Haugen and David Haas Facebook Page

Music:
1. Lord, Every Nation on Earth (written by yours truly)
2. As with Gladness Men of Old (tune: Dix)
3. The Liberty Bell March (written by John Philip Sousa), performed by the Hampshire Guitar Orchestra, courtesy of Music Alley

Additional link: Christus Vincit - the BLOG!

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In addition to continuing our series on OCP's 2010 Music Issue (hymns 624-705), we'll get a glimpse of what to expect in GIA's forthcoming Worship - Fourth Edition, and an interview by the Pray Tell Blog with GIA's Bob Batastini.

We also talk about my really freaky Facebook profile picture (as mentioned in the intro) is at left, compliments of Baseball Super Freaks, discuss medical happenings, and my advantage over the late night TV wars

Feasts for the Week:  January 25-31.
Commercials for our three official products as shown on our sidebar are scattered throughout the show.
iSNARK! Semi-Live on US-6: This past weekend I played the role of substitute organist at Holy Cross Church in Providence for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Here we reveal our music list.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Day before Septuagesima Edition
Don't Do This at Church: two scattered instances
Basso Profundo, the Singing Fish sings Alleluia! Dulce Carmen to help celebrate the Day before Septuagesima (that's in the Extraordinary Form; in the Ordinary Form, it would be Fat Tuesday!)
Paul Lisney sings the Divine Praises, courtesy of Music Alley.
Shamus' Adventures in Classical Latin: Shamus O'Reilly wreckovates Alleluia! Dulkay (Dulce) Carmen, courtesy of Snarks Gone Wild
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