Comments on: What Is This Place (AOV 1/132) https://www.sixmaddens.org/what-is-this-place-aov-1132/ Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Sat, 27 Jan 2018 02:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Margaret https://www.sixmaddens.org/what-is-this-place-aov-1132/#comment-47203 Tue, 30 May 2017 15:25:31 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1520#comment-47203 I agree with others – this is a Wonderful processional hymn. Our organist plays it with zest and fervor and the choir and congregation join robustly in praise!

]]> By: admin https://www.sixmaddens.org/what-is-this-place-aov-1132/#comment-18642 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:35:10 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1520#comment-18642 In reply to Greg Bowman.

Thanks for the comment, Greg.

A robust and joy filled beginning sounds wonderful.

Geoff

]]> By: Greg Bowman https://www.sixmaddens.org/what-is-this-place-aov-1132/#comment-18616 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 22:12:35 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1520#comment-18616 I’m a mainstream Mennonite. This beloved song is the first (#1) in Hymnal: A Worship Book, the most recent hardcover hymnal used broadly within Mennonite Church USA congregations.
RE: heretical… Not so much, with this line:
“And we accept bread at his table,
Broken and shared, a living sign.”
… but maybe imaginative with being each other’s “bread and wine.”
This is a song that, when sung robustly and with joy, kicks off a service in a powerful way.

]]> By: Jarrett https://www.sixmaddens.org/what-is-this-place-aov-1132/#comment-1281 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:55:45 +0000 http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1520#comment-1281 Hello! Oddly enough, even though many Anabaptist churches use this hymn, it was actually written by a Hubertus Oosterhuis, a Jesuit priest. The Catholics who call it heretical are mostly the grumpy kind who would like to do away with Vatican II if they could. Thanks for the post!

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