[IIntense]

Hi! I can relate to your reaction to applause during Mass. Maybe we can adjust our thinking if something inspires this at the end of Mass. It certainly doesn't fit in during Mass, I tend to think.

We are in the "unfortunate" position of knowing what to expect at Mass in the past. It was quite a hurdle some had problems with when lay people began to administer Communion, for instance. And what!!! Guitar Masses? Who would have dreamt such a thing!

I, for one, have enjoyed the introduction of different instruments playing music at Mass. Usually it's only one Mass while others have an organist. We have choices. While we have become acclimated to organ music, who ever said that other instruments are not appropriate? Maybe God appreciates all.

[muawiyah]

Not to hijack this thread, but I'm ROTFLMAO thinking of a Roman Catholic whose attitude toward guitars in church is so totally similar to the attitude of members of the Church of Christ/Christian (Non-instrumental) toward ANY musical instruments in church.

I know the Christian churches of all varieties do pick up many more than their fair share of "fallen Catholics", but does this go the other way as well?

[Conservative til I die]

I, for one, have enjoyed the introduction of different instruments playing music at Mass. Usually it's only one Mass while others have an organist. We have choices. While we have become acclimated to organ music, who ever said that other instruments are not appropriate? Maybe God appreciates all.

I don't think that we as Catholics should become frozen in time, but what sadly goes along with the innovations in instrumentation is an increasing banality (and in some rare cases, blasphemy) in *what* is being played and sung.

If anyone can find it online, I came across a hymn written in the late 20th century called "Just Like You" which reads almost as a lusty love note to Jesus (lyrics having to do with Jesus being one's only desire, and Jesus being their lover).