Catholic Hymnal: Containing Hymns for Congregational and Home Use, and the Vesper Psalms, the Office of Compline, the Litanies, Hymns at Benediction (Classic Reprint)

If people can be got to sing in praise of any project or principle, it is easy to arouse their enthusiasm in its favor. If they sing about anything, it is because they love it. All agree that ifC ongregational singing were done with spirit it would be a most powerful auxiliary to the priest. It would aid him very much in the work of instruction and exhortation, which, for the want of some such help, he is obliged to supply by extraordinary preaching, numerous instructions, and spiritual conferences. A ll, too, have felt the want of such singing at special Lenten sendees, during retreats and missions, at low masses, and at the meetings of sodalities established in parishes, and in our colleges and convent-schools. The best effort hitherto made has been to have a few hymns suitable for childrens use sung by children, to which the older people pay little or no attention. The present Hymnal, carefully compiled with the aforementioned purposes in view, is offered to the reverend clergy and to superiors of our educational institutions with the confident assurance that it will realize much that has been deemed desirable in a hymn-book for general use. Having had for several years good opportunities of testing the abilities and tastes of our people in this matter, I have reason to believe that the large majority of the hymns contained in the present collection will be found, on reasonable trial, to be such as the people will learn without difficulty, and will sing with pleasure when assembled in church, and also at home.
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