For something different tonight, I thought I might invite people of a certain age to share some favorite 60s and 70s hymns. You might have read Cathy Kavenys article in on the church in the 1970s. It wasnt a perfect church (and it isnt today) but for many of us it the church immediately after the Second Vatican Council is the place where we first met Christ: https://commonwealmagazine.org/70s-church The songs from that era are often unfairly maligned. In the wake of the Second Vatican Councils invitation to congregations to celebrate the Mass in the vernacular, there was a great and rapid need for songs in English. This explains what you might call the simplicity and generality of some of the songs of that time. Later on, the St. Louis Jesuits would react to that by grounding songs more firmly in Scripture passages. And of course there was a response to their music, and so on, until today. Each era has its own music dear to those who experienced it. Heres my favorite song from that era, a frequently reviled one, Sons of God, one that we sang frequently at Epiphany of Our Lord Church in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. De gustibus of course, but I find its simplicity sweet and still hum it and think of my first church. In the 1990s, far from Plymouth Meeting, I was delighted to hear it in a church in a slum in Nairobi, accompanied by loud drums and sung with delight among a swaying and clapping congregation. Some other favorites songs from that era are: Here We Are, by Ray Repp: https://youtube/watch?v=4F2bsLtY6uU All That I Am, by Sebastian Temple, https://youtube/watch?v=8dS8xpiotms What are your favorite songs from the 60s and 70s? (If you have none, please let those of us who like them enjoy remembering them.)
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000
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