Our Newman Center has been instrumental in recent years in promoting this music within the American Catholic Church. Many of our members are involved in translations, transcribing and giving lectures and workshops on this music, as well as, demonstrating and using it regulary. We are proud of our involvements in this liturgical project and are even more proud of our accomplishments over the past 8 years. It is a slow process. Translating is laborious.
Distance is a hazard.
Publishing is expensive. Yet, much has been and is being done to enhance the Church's liturgical life with this unique music. To answer these questions, let's listen to the poet Huub Oosterhuis, whose poetry we find in our hymnals. These are taken from his book, At Times I See. To believe in something so small and irreplaceable as a song.