This thread calls for some STRYPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"This Mass is ended all go in peace..."
Thank God for Pope Benedict!
Bless his heart.
This thread calls for some STRYPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 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! ;)
**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?
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.
>> 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. <<
If by “young people,” you mean aging hippies.
>> “This Mass is ended all go in peace...” <<
“... We must diminish, and Christ increase.” Saddest thing is the reason I probably haven’t heard that song in thirty years is because such a sentiment is contrary to the zeitgeist of church modernism. The music ministry’s probably much more comfortable with, “We must allow people to experience Christ through our showboating.”
I had never even heard of polyphony until I began teaching at a secondary school that has everyone, even the teachers, sing in choir. There I came to learn of Palestrina, William Byrd, Andrea Gabrieli, and other masters of sacred music. I’d had no idea such beauty even existed!
My son introduced me to the following Ave Maria written by Franz Biebl, and it still moves me nearly to tears each time I hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WSbq3TCcd0
It is a sung version of the Angelus, a mid-day prayer.