The older version:
'Glory to God in the highest,
and peace to his people on earth.
Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy on us; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our prayer. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.'
The version in the Third Edition:
'Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father.
Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God,
Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer;
you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father. Amen.'
5 comments:
In my parish, we have been singing the new Gloria for a few weeks now. What I found interesting is, on the old version, we never sang "Amen" at the end, but we are doing so with the new version. Also, on the old version, we always sang "peace to God's people on earth", instead of "His", which always made me cringe, smacking of inclusive language (note- it was only our current director of music ministry who replaced the "His" with "God's").
My only disappointment so far is that our director of music has picked kind of sappy, pop-style music for the new "Gloria", and the exact same melody is also used for the "Lamb of God", "Sanctus", and "Alleluia". Wish it would have been something more traditional, or even chant.
--- Bill.
We've been singing the new Gloria at my parish for a month or so and I have to admit that I liked the way we sang the old one better. I'm not sure if we're just using a bad setting ("Mass of Renewal" I think), or if its just harder to write music for it.
We started singing the new Gloria the last two weeks. The words are fine, our setting is terrible. Our music director chose to stay with the prior melody and the new words applied to it. The problem is that the words just don't go with the melody. It's like fitting square peg into a round hole...it just doesn't work. A great deal of the problem we have with people NOT singing in our parishes today is many of the songs are unsingable and I'm afraid that is the case with this.
Keith
I agree with the other comments. The words are beautiful. The music we are being stuck with is awful. Its not the substance that's the problem, its the style. We need to educate out music directors... they seem to be stuck in the 1970s. They need to know Gregorian Chant is OK. It's nothing to be scared of.
Don't blame your director, there's a dearth of arrangements that are anything other than pop-py. Chant is lovely, but so hard for a congregation to really sing. And there's just not much that's traditional/triumphant sounding.
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