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Why the Pope is right to purge modern music
Telegraph ^ | November 20, 2007 | Damian Thompson

Posted on 11/20/2007 1:34:30 PM PST by NYer

For decades, the standard of singing in St Peter's basilica has struggled to match that of a Gilbert and Sullivan society.



TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Worship
KEYWORDS: gregorianchant
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To: Mad Dawg

A close friend of mine who is a canon lawyer once told me-—some 20 years ago-—that “liturgists are what God sends to his Church so that the laity will have something to suffer for the Faith.”

That being said, I agree with all that you have expressed in this post.


41 posted on 07/19/2011 10:27:18 PM PDT by Running On Empty (The three sorriest words: "It's too late")
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To: Running On Empty

LOL

We’re having a series of talks about the new translation at Church. My aside to a friend was that the gift of being a convert is that one is so blown away by the consolations of the Sacred Body and Precious Blood that they could worship in Pig-Latin and it would still be marvellous.


42 posted on 07/20/2011 7:05:42 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Running On Empty; Mad Dawg

a former pastor of mine once said that the difference between a terrorist and liturgist is that you can negotiate with a terrorist.


43 posted on 07/20/2011 9:10:24 AM PDT by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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To: Coleus

;-)


44 posted on 07/20/2011 10:05:49 AM PDT by Running On Empty (The three sorriest words: "It's too late")
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To: NYer; wideawake
Of course aesthetics alone is not what determines the True Religion. If it were the winner would be the Armenian Church . . . hands down (until the rebuilding of the Bet HaMiqdash).

Listen to the first minute and a quarter of this.

45 posted on 07/20/2011 10:43:09 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu.)
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