1 posted on
11/20/2007 1:34:32 PM PST by
NYer
To: Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
2 posted on
11/20/2007 1:34:55 PM PST by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: NYer
"We are moving into an era of liturgical revolution. Benedict detests the feeble "folk Masses" that have remained the staple fare of Catholic worship long after they went out of musical fashion."
To: NYer
What, no Ozzy or Dio tunes? LOL.
4 posted on
11/20/2007 1:42:59 PM PST by
rfp1234
(Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. ---James Branch Cabell)
To: NYer
“..the standard of singing in St Peter’s basilica has struggled to match that of a Gilbert and Sullivan society.”
You mean, no more drums, bongos and loud meaningless screams at Mass? Leave anything up to liberals (I hate to say that we have a large supply of them in the Catholic Church) and you’ll have chaos. B16 brings a breath of fresh air. Gruss Gott.
5 posted on
11/20/2007 1:43:44 PM PST by
353FMG
(Government is the opiate of the masses.)
To: NYer
SWEET! No more kum-bah-yah!
6 posted on
11/20/2007 1:46:03 PM PST by
steve8714
(The last actor elected POTUS turned out OK.)
To: NYer
7 posted on
11/20/2007 1:46:48 PM PST by
steve8714
(The last actor elected POTUS turned out OK.)
To: NYer
Hmmm, no soulja boy for the Pope.
To: NYer
The next generation of choir directors have been charged by the Pope with the task of reintroducing beautiful music into church. If they succeed, then at long last the pews may begin to fill up again. Could very well be true. Never underestimate the power of bad music to keep people away.
11 posted on
11/20/2007 2:13:12 PM PST by
Mr. Mojo
(“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
To: NYer
Viva il Papa!
The problem is that modern music has not had time to show which of it is good and which crappy. I bet, hard as it is to imagine, that there was once banal, trite Gregorian chant. If you listen to Salieri and then Mozart, you realize that being a long time ago is/was no guarantee of excellence.
But when the choice of music is based on a bogus ideological misunderstanding of aggiornamento then, well, kum ba yah.
If we just looked for GOOD music with lyrics that managed either Doric simplicity or other excellence, we'd be okay.
As it is, I'm always grateful for awful hymnody. It provides a legitimate outlet for the rhetoric of abuse.
12 posted on
11/20/2007 2:26:12 PM PST by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: NYer
The Mass this morning was opened with an absolutely atrocious hymn. I didn't bother singing it. However, I did go to the hymnal and look for the composer. Marty Haugen, of course. Just as I suspected.
16 posted on
11/20/2007 4:19:01 PM PST by
JoeFromSidney
(My book is out. Read excerpts at http://www.thejusticecooperative.com)
To: NYer
I attended Mass at a neighboring parish and almost fell of my seat when the music director ran his hand down the length of the keyboard, burlesque style, during the Alleluia. I found it to be unsettling and inappropriate.
18 posted on
11/20/2007 5:16:23 PM PST by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: NYer
21 posted on
11/20/2007 8:09:52 PM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: NYer
Just sent this to a friend who hates folk music.
22 posted on
11/20/2007 8:13:10 PM PST by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: NYer
Wow, something I agree with the Pope on. My wife and I detest this new music. It’s almost enough to make me want to become Catholic. Do you think the Pope would allow Luther’s “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”? Oh well, just a thought.
30 posted on
11/21/2007 12:00:52 AM PST by
HarleyD
(97% of all statistics are made up.)
To: NYer
I wish the Pope Godspeed, but in the American Church, there is going to be a resistance to any change in the music. Just a thought.
31 posted on
11/21/2007 4:11:20 AM PST by
Biggirl
(A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation, with 4 cats in my life as proof. =^..^=)
To: NYer
Thank God! “Feeble” is the right word. After a hard week, I need inspiration, not fecklessness.
35 posted on
11/21/2007 8:42:36 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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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