SecretAgentMan writes a masterful post on an article about the Bishop’s plan to make new hymn rules. I believe that he is dead on about what will really happen. This post is something other than a fisk since it blends the commentary as if it was actually part of the sentences. Possibly this is a new blogger art form.
Yesterday at Mass while my mind was wandering during a dreadful GIA hymn I thought about a real cruel punishment for a Catholic homeschool child. Just tell them they can go out and play afer they find the word “Repent” in the lyrics from a GIA or OCP hymnal. That will fix em.
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I don’t think they’d get much play time.
REpent might be in Worship, which is published by GIA.
Excellent!
Actually, there already is a perfect word for this art form: exegesis. And it (the act of exegesis) is just as appropriate (if nor more so) here as when it is performed by theologians telling us why ‘The Passion of The Christ’ does not portray The Historical Jesus(TM), and therefore is a Troubling Movie(TM).
Or how about this: Exegetical License (a la ‘poetic license’)