The Recovering Choir Director

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8:30 AM S. Salvador do Mundo
Another “animator” [the doublespeak!] teaches the youth a little ditty:
“I command my (Insert word for a body part that contains one syllable here) to praise the Lord” (4x)
“(Insert word for a body part that contains one syllable here), praise the Lord” (4x)
[The melody reminds me of an '80s song, namely, Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking." Sacred, man.]

~11:00 AM S. Salvador do Mundo
List of music for the Mass, celebrated by Abp. Anthony Joseph Cardinal Bevilacqua of Philadelphia:
Opening: “Christ, Be Our Light” (Bernadette Farrell | OCP)
Asperges: “Rain Down” [FYI, it's raining today.]
Gloria: “Gloria” from Mass of the Angels and Saints (Steven R. Janco | GIA)
Psalm: “Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned” (Marty Haugen | GIA)
Alleluia: Missa Lumen Christi (OCP)
Offertory: “For the Beauty of the Earth” (Conrad Kocher, DIX)
Sanctus, Anamnesis, Amen: Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen | GIA)
Agnus Dei: Missa Lumen Christi (OCP)
Communion Procession: “We Are the Light of the World”
Recessional: “We Are Marching / Siyahamba” (South African | Ultryck)
Postlude: WYD Theme Song (OCP)

11:30 PM Silverthorn C.I.
Simon, friend and delegate from our campus ministry, returns from the Via Crucis re-enactment staged in downtown Toronto. I ask him how it was. He told me I would have approved of the music. I mention that I heard “O Sacred Head” (Hassler, PASSION CHORALE) on the TV report from the event. Simon replied that, in addition to that solid chorale, Salve, Regina (chant), Ave Maria (Franz Schubert), Pange lingua gloriosi (chant), Adoramus te Domine (Taizé chant), “Stay with Me” (Taizé chant), “Were you There?” (spiritual), and the Greek Trisagion were also sung. I am very much surprised.