Postmodern Liturgist Resources

One of the most popular songs in worship in our time is “On Eagle’s Wings”. We’ve prepared a text for this lilting tune that addresses some of the horrors wreaked by patriarchy.

We were raised Catholic, but we always thought there was
something fishy about that tale.
Faith in the resurrection is sometimes known to fail.

CHORUS:
We’ve got to hide from those albino monks –
They’ll ship us out in steamer trunks
And torture us until we’ve said,
“We give! Better to be Catholic than dead!”

The saints and the martyrs, it’s so sad that they died
Believing a great big lie,
But as far as that goes, it’s better them than I.
CHORUS.

We like the ritual. We like to come to Mass,
To see and to be seen is great!
But all that old morality is what we hate.
CHORUS.

The feminine’s sacred, so we have come to learn,
But conspiracies thwarted that fact.
Best of all, this religion won’t tell us how to act!
CHORUS.