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Originally Posted by mikeymo1741
Matt Maher (a Roman Catholic) has a nice song called "Love Has Come" with the lyric "Father Yahweh, Elohim." Guess that one is out.
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Just got my music issue today. There were a half-dozen standards that had been rewritten to comply to the Vatican guidelines. A song that sang "Yahweh I know You are near" is now "Oh Lord, I know You are near." (How I wish they got "Ad'nai" in there...).
BTW, "Love Has Come", which had been printed in prior issues, was not in this one. Maybe it would be fixed by next year.
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From what I understand, this "prohibition" only applies to liturgical settings, so I imagine a worship leader would be free to sing one of these songs at other times.
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On another board I frequent, a lot of Catholic musicians decided that it was probably a good idea to no longer sing "Yahweh" songs, especially including those venues outside of liturgy, simply on the basis of the logic in the letter itself.
Why the quotation marks around the word "prohibition"? Are you implying that the pope really didn't mean what he said?
Nick
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