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Nov. 29th, 2010 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreA question:
So, I've just come back from picking out the songs for church in December. This involves me and two other women, both slightly over middle-aged, raised in Protestant (if not necessarily Methodist) churches. At one point, I suggested that we sing Dona Nobis Pacem on one of the Sundays we were preparing for. They had apparently never heard of the song before (one of them stared at me and then said, "Speak English, please,"*), even after I sang it for them. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common and well-known song.
So. Assuming that you were raised Christian (though that's not necessary to have learned it, as I've sung it in school and community choirs), do you know Dona Nobis Pacem? Or is it just me foolishly assuming that because I know something, other people do too?
*She is...not my favorite church lady ever.
So, I've just come back from picking out the songs for church in December. This involves me and two other women, both slightly over middle-aged, raised in Protestant (if not necessarily Methodist) churches. At one point, I suggested that we sing Dona Nobis Pacem on one of the Sundays we were preparing for. They had apparently never heard of the song before (one of them stared at me and then said, "Speak English, please,"*), even after I sang it for them. I was under the impression that it was a fairly common and well-known song.
So. Assuming that you were raised Christian (though that's not necessary to have learned it, as I've sung it in school and community choirs), do you know Dona Nobis Pacem? Or is it just me foolishly assuming that because I know something, other people do too?
*She is...not my favorite church lady ever.
