[ninenot]

This post creates a false dichotomy, and you ought to know better. The worship of God is most fittingly accompanied by "high art," which is why the II V. Council defined sacred music as pars integralis( an integral part) of the Mass.

Your flawed dichotomy would logically ALSO state that you go to Mass in a barn. Go ahead.

[sinkspur]

The worship of God is most fittingly accompanied by "high art," which is why the II V. Council defined sacred music as pars integralis( an integral part) of the Mass.

Really?

Growing up, I remember we had one "High Mass" on Sunday, in the Tridentine days, and everything else was dead silence, musically.

Today, only one of our Sunday Masses is without music, the early Sunday Mass.

We use approved hymnals, and much of the music is dreadful.

But, most Catholic music is, and has always been, dreadful.