tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post8738159553420498987..comments2024-03-27T08:37:26.489-04:00Comments on Not Another Episcopal Church Blog: No Hallelujahs Shall be Sung During LentUndergroundpewsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-58928601347288118972013-03-22T08:58:16.962-04:002013-03-22T08:58:16.962-04:00Hallelujah (just don't tell anybody because we...Hallelujah (just don't tell anybody because we are still in Lent).Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-5436194552458914622013-03-22T08:32:49.832-04:002013-03-22T08:32:49.832-04:00I know the "A" word but "H"......I know the "A" word but "H"...is that 'Hosanna'?Ray Hesterhttp://bellsouth.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-19360040454107787052010-03-24T18:09:35.367-04:002010-03-24T18:09:35.367-04:00Those of us who listen to "Christian Radio&qu...Those of us who listen to "Christian Radio" for contemporary worship music get hosed... most of those stations are non-denoms with no sense of liturgical seasons and their play lists include all kinds of "A" and "H" words.TLF+https://www.blogger.com/profile/01650010433581488888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-60174395679622484232010-03-24T17:19:57.161-04:002010-03-24T17:19:57.161-04:00Thanks all.
Robin,
You just made me feel a pang...Thanks all.<br /><br />Robin, <br /><br />You just made me feel a pang of guilt over a Lenten performance of Hayden's Te Deum.Undergroundpewsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182191422663119484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-78886218551065128962010-03-24T12:43:03.259-04:002010-03-24T12:43:03.259-04:00In the Easter Orthodox Churches Lent is the season...In the Easter Orthodox Churches Lent is the season of the alleuia. Eastern Orthodox parishes and churches ring with alleluias. It is only the Western Church that abandoned singing God's praise with alleluias during the Lenten season. Even then it is a late custom. <br /><br />Rather than not use hymns that praise God during Lent with alleuias, I suggest the simple expedient of substituting "O Praise God" for alleluia for those who suffer with a overdeveloped sense of liturgical correctness, which my former rector once told me that I had and he did not mean it as a compliment. <br /><br />While the liturgically correct rector (or vicar) may have a fit of apoplexy if we sing alleluia during the season of Lent, God will not. What matters to God is not that we may observe every rubric and custom in celebrating the liturgy but that our hearts are close to him. <br /><br />It is also customary to omit the Te Deum in Lent and sing the Benedicite Omnia Opera in its place. Both are wonderful hymns of praise. This is also a late custom. In the Western Church in the cathedral office of Lauds the Benedicite Omnia Opera was sung year round as were the laudate psalms - Psalms 148, 149, and 150, with their alleluias. They were the heart of the cathedral office of Lauds. The cathedral office, however, fell into disuse as monasticism took a grip upon the Western Church and eventually the monastic office of Lauds replaced the cathedral office.<br /><br />One of the earliest ways the Psalms were sung in the Christian Church was that a cantor or schola of cantors sung the verses and the congregation sung alleluia after each verse. The Psalms were sung this way in Lent as well during the rest of the church year.Heritage Anglicanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13536133779405456898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-86921118129708420422010-03-24T09:20:05.944-04:002010-03-24T09:20:05.944-04:00That's a tradition which was unfamiliar to me....That's a tradition which was unfamiliar to me. Thanks for the lesson.<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107887.post-69836443322864703802010-03-24T06:32:56.991-04:002010-03-24T06:32:56.991-04:00Invariably, on the first Sunday of Lent (and a few...Invariably, on the first Sunday of Lent (and a few thereafter) somebody in our little mission will say "Alleluia..." (trailing off in embarassment) after the "Thanks be to God." A sweet mistake. Several of our younger members have no previous liturgical experience at all, so they demanded an explanation of the cessation of alleluia's. That's another plus of a working in a new church -- we learn afresh why we do what we do and what it signifies.Chuck Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01929470338280066656noreply@blogger.com