7 inspirational songs for World Communion Sunday

By Michael Gryboski, Editor
Sunday, October 02, 2022

'Taste and See'

Written by Roman Catholic music teacher, pianist and composer James E. Moore, “Taste and See” was written amid the fallout from the 1960s Second Vatican Council.

Professor C. Michael Hawn, professor emeritus of church music for the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, wrote in a piece for UMC Discipleship Ministries website that the song involves bringing “the African American gospel tradition to the Mass.”

“The refrain quotes Psalm 38:8a: ‘Taste and see that the LORD is good.’ (NIV) The words are quickly memorized and Dr. Moore’s musical setting may be sung in harmony easily,” wrote Hawn.

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