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To: Aristotle721

Yes! You are the person from Cantica Nova, aren't you. You need to be on this thread!


55 posted on 09/04/2005 3:45:17 PM PDT by Siobhan (Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.)
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To: Siobhan; All
I'm not the person from Cantica Nova - I don't think he has an account here. A good resource, though.

I propose we transcend the hymn-based argument in favor of psalmody, which not only is the most preferred by the Church*, but also brings us closer to the Jewish synagogue service upon which all Christian liturgies derive, more or less.

I'm an unrepentant proponent for the High Mass, by the way. You know, the Mass that was rarely sung before Vatican II, therefore rarely loved (although ardently so by a few) and rarely missed (as a lot of todays liturgies are basically Low Mass with hymns - not that there's anything fundamentally wrong with that, with the Eucharist being confected and all - but the High Mass is supposed to be normative on a Sunday. And the High Mass calls for psalmody rather than hymnody.

* Prooftexting? You got it.


60 posted on 09/05/2005 6:00:32 AM PDT by Aristotle721 (The Recovering Choir Director - www.cantemusdomino.net/blog)
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