[NYer]

"People enter churches to pray, not to be entertained."

Amen to that! On Good Friday last year, some CINOs who now attend an Evangelical Church, decided to join us. While we all prayed in silence awaiting the priest's entrance, these two women carried on a conversation - a loud conversation. They had lost all sense of decorum. If they show up again this year, they'll get an earful from me - with Father's blessing.

[sockmonkey]

I like what he said, but could give him a few fashion tips on his choice of mitre in that pic. Yikes.

[Straight Vermonter]

OK, nice talk, very sound... but what of the overlay stole?

Ok, I'll bite, what is an overlay stole?

[choirboy]

. . .and for an end to soft background music . . .

I call it "interlude" music. A few years back the organist was playing interlude music before Mass. One of the hits of the day was "The Impossible Dream"!

[SaltyJoe]

Hooray! I can't tell you how annoying it is to hear a piano piece during the Consecration as if we're watching a movie. Do we really need a soundtrack at Mass? I understand the desire for music and to celebrate, but save it for another time.

Music has been made so cheap because of it's mass availability. There use to be an age when music was hard to come by and to hear a band play would literally stop traffic. Nowadays, I feel as if I have to get into my car and drive just to have some quiet time.

Have you ever fasted from music (and noise) the way you'd fast from food? Take a road trip with the radio off?