Comments on: Redemption Songs: Plainsong-Style (Worship Leader, Oct. ‘09) http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2009/11/07/redemption-songs-plainsong-style-worship-leader-oct-09/ "In your concord and symphonic love, Jesus Christ is sung." • Ignatius of Antioch Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:36:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Cook http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2009/11/07/redemption-songs-plainsong-style-worship-leader-oct-09/comment-page-1/#comment-15744 Chris Cook Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:03:54 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/?p=63#comment-15744 Reggie, I loved reading your article on chanting the psalms. I especially appreciate your passion for bringing the ancient practice into the contemporary context. It's especially sweet, because I'm sitting here with my "Plainsong Psalter" copyright 1932, pointed by Charles Winfred Douglas. I had to learn to accompany them at sight in college, and we chanted them in worship every Sunday back in the good old days. I appreciate the new version by Litton, updated language and BIGGER PRINT! God's blessing upon your return home. And thanks for our contact at school last week. I'd like to keep in touch! Chris • Hi Chris, it was great visiting with you at IWS too. Thanks for your encouraging note. I'll have to be on the lookout for a copy of the Douglas volume. Litton's settings (even when I tweak them somewhat) continue to bless me and help me get folded into God's song. (Biggest "tweak" thus far: I reset Ps 119:9-16 to Tone I.7 instead of Litton's VI.) Yes, let's do stay in touch. Bless. Reggie Reggie, I loved reading your article on chanting the psalms. I especially appreciate your passion for bringing the ancient practice into the contemporary context. It’s especially sweet, because I’m sitting here with my “Plainsong Psalter” copyright 1932, pointed by Charles Winfred Douglas. I had to learn to accompany them at sight in college, and we chanted them in worship every Sunday back in the good old days. I appreciate the new version by Litton, updated language and BIGGER PRINT! God’s blessing upon your return home. And thanks for our contact at school last week. I’d like to keep in touch!
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Hi Chris, it was great visiting with you at IWS too. Thanks for your encouraging note. I’ll have to be on the lookout for a copy of the Douglas volume. Litton’s settings (even when I tweak them somewhat) continue to bless me and help me get folded into God’s song. (Biggest “tweak” thus far: I reset Ps 119:9-16 to Tone I.7 instead of Litton’s VI.) Yes, let’s do stay in touch. Bless. Reggie

]]> By: darrell a. harris http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2009/11/07/redemption-songs-plainsong-style-worship-leader-oct-09/comment-page-1/#comment-15269 darrell a. harris Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:02 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/?p=63#comment-15269 diggin' this chili, amigo! both the reggae and the chant! diggin’ this chili, amigo!
both the reggae and the chant!

]]> By: Jim Hart http://reggiekidd.com/RK/2009/11/07/redemption-songs-plainsong-style-worship-leader-oct-09/comment-page-1/#comment-14662 Jim Hart Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:54:32 +0000 http://reggiekidd.com/RK/?p=63#comment-14662 Great article. Even when praying/singing "Their heart is gross and fat," I find myself identifying with the proud. (Ps. 119:70) I am reminded of a Thomas Merton paraphrased quote, "I have prayed the Psalms so much that I feel I have become a living Psalm." I read about a monk who was asked, "What is it like to chant the Psalms every day?" The questioner expected to hear how glorious and transcendent the experience was, every day better than the previous. The response he got? "Relentless." There is a relentlessness to daily Psalmody, but a truly transforming relentlessness nonetheless. Great article. Even when praying/singing “Their heart is gross and fat,” I find myself identifying with the proud. (Ps. 119:70)

I am reminded of a Thomas Merton paraphrased quote, “I have prayed the Psalms so much that I feel I have become a living Psalm.”

I read about a monk who was asked, “What is it like to chant the Psalms every day?” The questioner expected to hear how glorious and transcendent the experience was, every day better than the previous. The response he got? “Relentless.” There is a relentlessness to daily Psalmody, but a truly transforming relentlessness nonetheless.

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