For the Closing Hymn

The lyrics for "Day by Day" were written in the 13th century by St. Richard of Chichester (according to my Anglican Hymnal, which lists this as hymn #429) found here.
The writers if the musical GodSpell shamelessly plagiarized the words to many traditional hymns, including "Day by day", "Turn Back, O Man", "We Plow the fields and scatter", to name a few.
So ask your pastor to maybe use the more traditional tunes with some of these hymn verses, and maybe you can get thinhgs turned around a bit.

I think we had to sing that in music class around kindergarten. Is that the "to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly" one? The tune did sort of fit in with the stuff on my mother's "lite FM" radio station back then in the early '80s.

Craziness.
One of my pet peeves (belonging to one parish while working, as in for money, for another) has worked to my advantage at Mom & Dad's parish... the organist (a parish member) quit to go play the organ for another parish, so we've been having lovely a capella singing... of songs people know... good, happy traditional songs people know. It's great.

Something from 'Hair' would have been a much better pick ... I mean if you're gonna do Broadway, there are so many other selections that could have been chosen ... it seems like they're just 'settling' over there.

Alicia,
That is not my pastor. We attend Mass at Auriesville which is a Shrine. Many Catholics parish hop in this diocese because finding a decent Mass is nearly impossible. The closest thing I had to a home parish is the TLM which is an hour away and is currently pastor-less.
With that said, the Mass followed the GIRM mostly (which really is too much to ask in this diocese) so my reaction was more like "Ohmygosh, he is not singing 1960's show tunes at Mass" as opposed to getting really offended or anything.

I wonder if he thought he was "appealing to the young" with this choice. I do wish that certain people would get the message that the 'sixties have been over for quite some time.

...why?

LOL!

does he take requests?