From my faith journey blog:<\/p>\n
Jon has a 2006 Heritage Missal<\/a> from OCP<\/a> that he borrowed from the nursing home and I was going through it last night to decide whether or not I should go to Mass on Tuesday. Let’s just say that looking at the OCP readings and liturgy made it painfully obvious that I could *NOT* go without being incredibly snarky and feeling like I was worshipping with people of a completely different religion. (**Nota bene**<\/strong> I am not saying that Catholics are not Christians. Let me be very intentional about this.<\/strong>) As far as I know, neither JPII nor Papa Ratzi have proclaimed Mary to be the co-mediatrix and apparently, the OCP<\/a> peeps didn’t get the memo. Seriously, I rarely see the Psalms so proof-texted (they gutted Psalm 45 to get verses to fit) or Revelation as the first reading. (They could have put Hannah’s song from 1 Samuel since it is similar to the Magnificat.) I was seriously tempted to ask exactly where Jesus fit into the equation since it was crossing the line from veneration of Mary to worship\/adoration. Mary *was* special — she was chosen to be the Theotokos<\/em> and she complied willingly with God’s instructions but… SHE’S NOT GOD!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n
I went through the rest of the missal and they have quite a bit of Marty Haugen including the Mass of
Cremation<\/strike> Creation<\/em> and a few of his more “interesting” (read: inclusive) hymns. (I really wonder if most Catholics know that one of their hymnwriters is formerly Lutheran<\/a> and now UCC<\/a>.) They had some fairly good David Haas ones and a few ecumenical ones like I Am the Bread of Life<\/em>, Christ Be Our Light<\/em> (which I actually like), and Blest Are They<\/em>. Mostly, it was a couple decent hymns, then a weird song, and then something by David Haas. It honestly made me thankful for With One Voice<\/em> which has some “interesting” hymns but is 99% Orthodox. (The exception is their egregious word changes in Be Thou My Vision<\/em> — the “High King of Heaven” was the one who opened a can of whupass on the hill of Slane, not the “light of my soul”.) Granted, I really am not fond of some of their hymns (especially ones like Hallelujah! We Sing Your Praises<\/em> which are muchly overdone), but at least theirs are somewhat placeable in the history of the church.<\/p>\n[\/end snarkiness]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I seriously am not trying to be anti-Catholic but dude… some of what was published was just wrong on so many levels. I wish the Church would return to worshipping in Latin because it would mean that they took worship seriously and didn’t screw around with theology like they do now.<\/p>\n
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