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To: AnAmericanMother

Agree. Husband goes to the 8:00 Mass because it doesn’t have music.


14 posted on 04/05/2010 6:13:59 PM PDT by KYGrandma (The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home......)
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To: KYGrandma
A lot of people used to do that at our parish -- but now we have folks coming from all over the city to the 11:30 High Mass with choir.

We really put on the dog for Easter Vigil -- four anthems (with visiting violinist who is truly excellent, she can play the Telemann Psalm 117 off the page, taking pieces from the Violin I and Violin II parts), the Exultet chanted in its entirety, the Sequence, and two handbell pieces to boot.

We use the Massive Cremation occasionally to mollify the superannuated hippies in our midst, but we chant the Ordinary in Latin every First Sunday (including yesterday), and our choirmaster has composed his own four-part setting which we use as often as we can. We do have to sing the horrible Becker "Litany of the Saints" at the Vigil because one of the priests likes it, but he's a wonderfully kind, orthodox and holy (if not very musical) man so we are happy to indulge him. (I also think he likes it because it was sung at JPII's funeral and he's one of the JPII priests). Hopefully we can eventually wean him to a more traditional chant setting though.

17 posted on 04/05/2010 6:22:04 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: KYGrandma

One thing you have to remember, there is a difference between music and noise. Yes, some of us are massively picky about that.


20 posted on 04/05/2010 6:28:20 PM PDT by Desdemona
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