This thread calls for some STRYPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 05/27/2011 12:31:09 PM PDT by GonzoII
"This Mass is ended all go in peace..."
Thank God for Pope Benedict!
Bless his heart.
This thread calls for some STRYPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Calling on YOU”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI8ylsHKIMg
Stryper \ Calling On You
Inside of me there is a lonely place
Sometimes I just don’t know it’s there
But when I’m all alone
That’s when I have to face...
[Bridge]
The part of me that needs someone
To be by my side that’s when I call on...
[Chorus]
You, You make my life complete
You give me all I need
You help me through and through
I’m calling on you
I can’t explain just what You do to me
My love grows stronger everyday
You give me love, You give me company
And when I have to face the rain
You bring sunshine into my life
[Repeat Chorus]
[Solo]
[Repeat Chorus]
I used to be a Catholic, and some of that liturgical music put me to sleep it was SO repetitious. At least with what we used to refer to as “Guitar Mass”, nobody would be sleeping, especially when the bass player showed up!
I’m not a huge fan of that type of hair metal glam-rock, but I always laugh at so called rock fans who say that Stryper wasn’t rock. I mean, they threw bibles out to the crowd like WASP threw raw meat. That always sounded pretty rocknroll to me, espescially considering it made a lot of so-called rock folks upset. They were just upset that it made them uncomfortable instead of the “squares” for a change.
Freegards
I agree, but it has to be done well. To do chant badly and make it monotonous and depressing is worse than the hootenanny.
Amen!
I do not miss the insipid, new age music that was introduced in the seventies. Garbage.
Hymns that are Biblical are the ones I love most.
Just as the rest of the Mass is so is the music. It is one’s approach and attitude that makes the liturgy worshipful and uplifting.
I have got to send this to my Church music ministers...
I've never heard of "Stryker"?
IMHO, "contemporary" music is fine, if it is good music...the problem truly is with insipid "feel-good" lyrics, set inappropriately to the music (church musicians will know what I mean - there's some really bad music out there, either texts, or settings, or both)!
The music doesn't have to be so "sophisticated" or pretentious, but it does have to have some worthwhile quality about it, besides being "accessible" to the whole assembly...
"Pop" music is different than "contemporary" music, and /church music rant, LOL!! Remember Memorial Day, and meantime, happy 6th Sunday of Easter! ;)
I guess I'm behind the times...but it's really a dilemma (sic) for smaller parishes when it comes to "competing" with the "mega-Churches" for membership in this day and age...if you don't have a rock band, a parish teen rock band, perhaps a country-western Mass, etc., then somewhere else is always going to be more "fun" and "vibrant", and possibly more individually "meaningful" to attend, especially if you're encouraged to participate in some version of "American Church Idol"!!
But what is the meaning of "meaningful"??
/rant again!
“like WASP threw raw meat”
Not sure that Blackie and the boys have stopped chucking it yet.
Last I saw of him, he was on “that metal show”, in mid world tour. A rock survivor for sure.
Freegards
**The traditionalist German pontiff has called for an end to the use of pop-inspired religious music that many Catholic churches have used in different parts of the world to attract the faithful.**
How many bishops and music directors will display obedience to the Pope?
You are always a Catholic. You Baptism lasts forever. Come back any time. We welcome you.
You are always a Catholic. You Baptism lasts forever. Come back any time. We welcome you.
Darn few. Especially since our own archbishop continues to allow the folks at OCP to continue to send out their rancid tripe to at least seventy five percent of the parishes in the country.
I second that.
“Critics have said the use of modern music helps the Catholic faith remain relevant and vibrant for young people and that it is better to have guitars and tambourines during mass than empty churches.”
This really comes back to the traditional/modernist problem. The modernists in the Church, who feel that the Church must change in order to “keep up with the times,” disagree with the traditionalists, who feel that eternal truths are literally that, and need not change, by virtue of being eternal. The modernists think that by doing that which they perceive as updating, they can attract a larger parish population.
What they miss, whether by design or choice or what-have-you is that, if you teach people about the Mass, and what it means, understanding begets relevance, vibrancy, and reverence, and love. That goes for the music, too.
We’ve had forty-two years of Kumba-ya. Bring on the good stuff, provide good catechesis, and there won’t be empty churches.
If people understand that we are going up to Calvary at Mass, maybe the guitars will fade away into oblivion.
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