To: magritte
Then they took away the altar rail, then civilians dispensed communion...it was a huge mistake to be ‘trendy.’
To: buccaneer81
I’ll tell you, as a child, the altar rail, the priest, the songs, the text, is seemed so ... serious.
Then my friend’s mom was giving me communion. She liked porcelain cats. Unserious.
19 posted on
10/23/2011 6:50:18 PM PDT by
magritte
To: buccaneer81
I agree. Last sunday I went for an English mass after months (normally attend the Polish mass or Latin) and it was saccharine sweet in the songs, the "kumbaya" effect etc. surprisingly in Polish it's a lot more "MALE" -- the organ singer is male and the songs are not the sweetie-sweetie, "Jesus my home-boy" song but strong ones
And men sing and participate because they don't need choir-boy voices but can be men.
I'm going to stay away from English language masses.
82 posted on
10/24/2011 3:15:28 AM PDT by
Cronos
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