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"Pardon me, but is this a Catholic church?"

Apparently, if the question had to be asked ...

Guitars do go back a ways in the Catholic Church. "Stille Nacht" - "Silent Night" was first sung in a Catholic Church in Austria to the strumming of a guitar. Of course, it wasn't part of Mass, it was before it.

http://silentnight.web.za/history/

"180 years ago the carol "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht" was heard for the first time in a village church in Oberndorf, Austria. The congregation at that Midnight Mass in St. Nicholas Church listened as the voices of the assistant pastor, Fr. Joseph Mohr, and the choir director, Franz Xaver Gruber, rang through the church to the accompaniment of Fr. Mohr's guitar. On each of the six verses, the choir repeated the last two lines in four-part harmony."

Gotta run, but this article struck hard with me because this weekend Mass had a guitar accompanied Peter, Paul and Mary dirge "The Wedding Song" -- whenever two or more of you are gathered in his name, there is love, there is love...

I'm still trying to get over it. ;-)

"Guitars do go back a ways in the Catholic Church. "Stille Nacht" - "Silent Night" was first sung in a Catholic Church in Austria to the strumming of a guitar. Of course, it wasn't part of Mass, it was before it."

The difference between crooning the tranquilizing melody of the Nativity with background accompaniment of classical guitar, and strumming the more ostentatious folk guitar strings in the manner of Peter, Paul and Mary while banging the drums on the altar is noteworthy here.

The angelic song 'Silent Night', a soft carol composed by the priest JOSEPH MOHR to immortalize the Nativity, is lullaby-soft, reverently smooth, and soothingly slow. Crooning this Christian lullaby with classical guitar accompaniment, (an instrument rivaling the harp in the hands of a master), is not the same as the ostentatious folk rock balads with banging drums. Not even close enough to deserve honest comparison. Even a shephard named Hermann can understand the difference between the heavenly 'Silent Night' and the Balad of Bennie Hinn.

COME ON, LET ME HEAR YOU LIBERALS, SOMEBODY SAY AMEN