All I can say is.........I like it.
I'm tired of folk music during mass, especially after communion. To me, that is one of the most important parts of the mass, and I can never concentrate because of all the singing. However, if it was something like Gregorian Chant, that is another story.
My husband hates music during mass, too. We went to a wedding not too long ago, and he leaned over to me during one of the songs and whispered, "I didn't realize Peter, Paul and Mary were doing religious gigs."
folk music during mass
LOL! Oh, man that should have been tossed on the ash heap when bell bottoms all but vanished. That does drive me a little nuts. A few years ago I was in a small Catholic church in Maine. We sung the Our Father while some ' groovy dude ' played the guitar.
I could only imagine our Father, watching this scene from above and rolling his eyes.
Today's "worshippers" continue their visitation in loud voices after entering what today passes as a sanctuary as though they knew full well that nothing of significance was to take place.
Where's the tabernacle? Oh. It's been moved to one of the restrooms, or someplace clearly not visible.
A trip to Eastern Europe would be most revealing to North American Catholics. There, one doesn't receive communion in the hand, but kneels at a communion rail. The Sacred Host is distributed by priests and never by laymen. The Epistle is read by a priest who hasn't delegated his responsibility to a layman.
There's no mistaking the location of the confessionals. They're in plain sight and in frequent use. Not everyone goes to communion as though it's just an habitual thing that everyone does...even though the sole might be stained.