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Thread #79968   Message #3030916
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Nov-10 - 03:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Papal Hymn / Long Live the Pope
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Long Live the Pope
I haven't been able to find any hymnals with the sappiest of old-time Catholic hymns. I have the Pius X Hymnal and the St. Gregory Hymnal, but, for the most part, they have reasonably decent music. When I was in the seminary in the early 1960s, we had a maroon paperback hymnal that had some of those hymns, but I can't remember the title of the hymnal. The Milwaukee Archdiocese banned a number of the songs in that hymnal because they were either bad music or bad theology.
I wish I knew the names of some of those hymnals. This 1910 St. Mark's Hymnal certainly has some sappy stuff. Oh, and here's another: Holy Face Hymnal by the Sisters of Mercy of Providence, Rhode Island, 1891.
-Joe Offer-