19 March – Feast of ST. JOSEPH! – Hope of the sick, Patron of the dying,
Terror of demons, Protector of Holy Church!
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Glorious St. Joseph. Hope of the sick, Patron of the dying, Terror of
demons, Protector of Holy Church, In Rome today you eat Bigne di San
Giuseppe. Back ...
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You're right: this would be marked improvement...
ReplyDeleteBen Trovato, thanks for your comment. I have been away otherwise I'd have explained sooner that this posting was occasioned by my encounter with a musical setting of the new translation which embodied an inappropriate relationship between text and music. It is this characteristic - of the musician having failed to appreciate the meaning of the text which I consider the key failing in much of the liturgical music provided over the last forty years. A solemn text such as "We proclaim your death..." is poorly served by marriage to a jolly jingle such as might normally accompany an advert for toothpaste or breakfast cereal.
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