Working group for church music and pastoral care for young people in the Diocese of Limburg
The working group for church music and pastoral care for young people in the Diocese of Limburg was the name of a former committee that was concerned with the creation and dissemination of, based on its understanding, more contemporary sacred music . The working group worked from 1970 to 2012.
founding
The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) formulated the following passage in the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy for the initiative of the Working Group on Church Music and Pastoral Care for Young People:
“ Filled with the Christian spirit, church musicians may be aware that it is their calling to cultivate church music and to increase its treasure. They should create settings which have the characteristics of real church music and which can not only be sung by larger choirs, but are also adapted to smaller choirs and promote the active participation of the entire community of believers. "
Triggered by the council, sacred songs in the styles of Negro spirituals , gospel songs , jazz , beat , rock , pop and folk music were created in German-speaking countries around 1970 . At the same time, in 1970, the working group was founded.
Tasks of the working group
The founders saw their task in helping the congregations to find new and more contemporary songs. The aim was to musically pick up on the attitude towards life and the topics of young people and young adults. In its statute of January 3, 1972, the working group for church music and youth pastoral care in the Diocese of Limburg defined its tasks as follows:
- Observation and critical selection of new forms of church music for children, youth and community worship
- Material presentations for communities and groups
- Practical advice for instrumental and vocal groups
- Granting of grants for the musical design of youth services and for the purchase of instruments and amplification systems
- Creation of new songs (composition orders, organ sets, arrangements, workshop work)
development
In the creation and selection of songs, the working group has endeavored to take up the experiences of the present in terms of content and to interpret them from the perspective of believers. In the 1980s, the working group developed a catalog of criteria that describes textual and musical requirements for songs in order to be published in publications. Some of the songs have found their way into the main part and diocesan appendices of the Catholic Church of God as well as into the main part or regional appendices of the Evangelical Hymnal .
The then diocesan youth pastor Rudolf Lutter and the head of the office for church music, Ordinariatsrat Paul Gutfleisch, anchored youth and church music together. In addition, the working group contributed to the dissemination of the newly created songs in events and invited choirs, bands and communities to qualify.
Publications
- 1979–1990 five media packages for the church year
- 1994 Choir book “Vom Leben singen” (from life singing) with 188 songs
- 1999 Choir and band book * "Coloring the Time" with 161 songs
- 2000 choir book "Lebensweise" with 44 songs
- 2000 CD “color the time” with 17 selected titles from the book of the same name
- 2001 choir book "Gehalten", for the 30th anniversary with 42 songs
- 2001 CD "Nodes", 27 songs for the media packages
- 2003 Choir book & CD “Keep your dreams tight”, 25 tracks from the 90s
- 2003 Choir book "Let your light shine", with 103 songs
- 2004 song book "Sing 1", with 86 songs
- 2005 CD "Let your light shine", 17 selected titles from the book of the same name
- 2006 song book "NachKlänge" - musical evening prayers, 69 songs
- 2006 CD NachKklang. 14 selected titles from the book of the same name
- 2008 song book "Sing 2", with 120 songs
- 2008 song book "Because you are there" - Children's Praise to God with 380 songs
- 2009 CD "Color Infectious", 16 titles from the children's book "Because you are there"
- 2009 CD "Allen Wesen, allen Dingen" 17 songs by Winfried Heurich
- 2009 Choir and band book “Because Heaven Needs Us” with 200 songs
- 2011 Young Praise to God “A Blessing” with 720 songs
Chairpersons and Directors and Members
Chair of the working group
- Rudolf Lutter 1971–1972
- Gerhard Schwartz 1972–1973
- Joachim Schäfer 1973–1979
- Michael Metzler 1979–1986
- Ernst-Ewald Roth 1986–1996
- Patrick Dehm 1996–2012
Managing director of the working group
- Bernhard Glaßner 1971–1973
- Winfried Heurich 1974-2000
- Peter Reulein 2000-2005
- Joachim Raabe 2005–2012
Members in 2012
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resolution
In 2012 Patrick Dehm was dismissed without notice by Vicar General Franz Kaspar . At the same time he was deprived of the leadership of the working group, which he had held since 1996. Eugen Eckert resigned from the committee to protest against these decisions .
In the same year, the working group was dissolved in its previous form by the Diocese of Limburg and now continued under the name New Spiritual Song in the Diocese of Limburg under the leadership of the Pastoral Services Department .
Patrik Dehm then founded the ecumenical association in TAKT e. V. , in order to further promote and support the work on the new spiritual songs in the future.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://neuesgeistlicheslied.de/die_Zeit_faorben.asp
- ↑ http://neuesgeistlicheslied.de/Lebensweise.asp
- ↑ http://neuesgeistlicheslied.de/images/suite101220111_leister.gif
- ↑ http://neuesgeistlicheslied.de/pressestimmen.asp?PSwahl=ds110704
- ^ Exodus of the singers in: Frankfurter Rundschau of November 9, 2012 (last accessed on May 30, 2014)
- ^ Website of the inTAKT association
