{"id":13652,"date":"2012-03-20T18:46:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=13652"},"modified":"2012-03-21T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T15:10:43","slug":"what-makes-a-hymn-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/20\/what-makes-a-hymn-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a hymn Catholic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathaniel Peters at <em>First Things<\/em> makes a case for Catholics singing Protestant hymns.<\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Because these hymns can be vehicles for handing on the Catholic faith, they remind us of the real meaning of <\/strong><em><strong>Catholic<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong> At its heart, to say that something is Catholic is not to say that it was written by a person in communion with the bishop of Rome but that it is in accord with the universal apostolic heritage. This means, of course, that not all hymns are suitable for Catholic liturgies. But it also means that if a hymn proclaims the Catholic faith, then\u2014regardless of its origin\u2014we should consider it a Catholic hymn.<\/p>\n<p>This is the vision of catholicity put forward in Vatican II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole essay is worth a read. You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2012\/03\/the-catholic-case-for-protestant-hymns\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026There are good reasons for Catholics to sing hymns\u2014and Protestant hymns, at that. Even as they strive for excellence in Gregorian chant and other areas of musical renewal, Catholics would do well to remember what good hymns can do and why excellence in hymn-singing should be part of the Catholic liturgical renewal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[714,1890],"class_list":["post-13652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-hymns","tag-first-things","tag-nathaniel-peters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What makes a hymn Catholic? - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/20\/what-makes-a-hymn-catholic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What makes a hymn Catholic? - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201c\u2026There are good reasons for Catholics to sing hymns\u2014and Protestant hymns, at that. 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