[dsc]

You know, the Church was not founded at VAT II.

If today's Catholics have not been introduced to fine music, that is because their heritage was stolen from them by Modernist heretics.

[SuziQ]

You know, the Church was not founded at VAT II.

I knew the VAT I church as well, and frankly there was not a lot of singing going on at my Parish, I don't know about other places. Most people don't know the difference between good music and tripe, but if they are singing in Praise to God, it doesn't really matter to them.

I've attended Latin Mass as an adult, and it doesn't hold that much fascination for me. I do like the old Latin hyms, but wouldn't want a steady diet of them. A lot of the modern music is silly to me, but others like it, and it enhances their worship of God. Isn't that what music is supposed to do? They aren't looking for hidden meanings in the words; they just sing and while doing so 'pray twice'!

[afraidfortherepublic]

If today's Catholics have not been introduced to fine music...Music had all but disappeared from regular parish masses before Vatican II. Unless it was a "high" Mass for a special occasion, such as Easter or Christmas, the standard was that NO music was offered and no hymns were sung. Add the prohibition against any hymns written by Martin Luther, and the Catholic Church was absent anything singable.

I think that Schutte wrote the best of the mmodern music, but I am sick of the same selections week after week. I wish that music directors would make a practice of mixing old hymns with new so that we have a variety of tempo, rhythm, and range.

As to Dan Schutte, I have often wondered where he is. I have asked around Milwaukee churches and no one seemed to know.