Lol ... isn't liturgical dance, despite being banned by the USCCB, still in its study phase! (/sarcasm).
Posted on 11/24/2004 6:05:22 AM PST by NYer
Lol ... isn't liturgical dance, despite being banned by the USCCB, still in its study phase! (/sarcasm).
Last year, I attended the funeral of a much loved NYS Trooper, member of a bagpipe group. After communion, they played a taped recording of the same trooper singing "Amazing Grace", a hymn that has been embraced by many catholics, despite being doctrinally incorrect. Many teared up ... personally, I thought it was in poor taste. But, this is the Albany Diocese, where just about anything goes.
No wonder the New Order church is is such bad shape. I will keep you in my prayers.
Thanks but I attend a Maronite Catholic Church, where the entire liturgy is chanted and totally unaffected by these novelties.
No, you displayed your good fortune or luck! : )
Thanks so much for posting this! I always look forward to reading these columns by Fr. Edward McNamara....
I just found this and was going to post the music part.
Good post.
We have a choir director who does use a lot of pre-recorded music. He has just been asked by our new priest to use "more" live music.
**The reason for this is that the use of music in the liturgy is always to enhance the quality of liturgical prayer and can never be considered as entertainment.
It is practically impossible for recorded music to serve the same function. **
What does a church do with a choir director who considers that the music is more along the entertainment line? And I hate the clapping that happens after Mass.
Maybe I just being a "stick in the mud".
??? In my previous parish, we had a choir and a 'contemporary music group'. The pastor favored the contemporary group and gave them preference at all major church events - Christmas and Easter Vigils, Confirmation, First Communion, etc. My preference was the choir so I attended those masses where the choir sang, accompanied by an organist. The pastor, however, worked with both groups in the proper selection of music. Is this not true in your parish, as well?
The fact of the matter is that pre-recorded music is forbidden, period, unless one is using it within very tight limits for a "chilluns Mass" (something else I don't understand...)
As to your next post, what should be done with a choir director who thinks they are running an orchestra pit on Broadway?
Fire the turkey and hire a Catholic. A REAL Catholic.
He did leave once but then got re-hired. Rather than whine--I pray now.
Last Lent he started to include one classical song in the Sunday songs (replacing some of the Maranatha recording stuff.)
Maybe there is hope. Our new preist is more GIRM oriented and very reverent -- so I think things will improve. In fact, the priest has already asked for more "live" music rather than the pre-recorded stuff.
Pray for us.
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