And its narcissistic. Post VII music is about us, how great we are, me, me, me, I, I, I. Not about God, not about adoring and praising and loving God. See Bad Poetry, Bad Theology: The Curse of Bad Liturgical Music (Part Two) and Pop Goes the Mass The Curse of Bad Liturgical Music (Part One)
Please Lord, restore your Church.
“The use of simple unadorned melodies from the Catholic treasury of tradition and its great reservoir of musical heritage is the most prayerful and respectful way a Catholic can raise his or her voice at the altar of God.”
Bears repeating. Even chanting.
The traditional hymns and chant are coming back at my church. Thank you, God!
Lord pray that the Catholics don’t make the error we Protestants have. Don’t let these retarded modern praise songs take the place of the old hymns.
Its just repeating some hypnotic rhyming chant,, again and again, and again.
…The claim that MacMillan’s congregational mass settings are unsingable is utterly ridiculous. How ironic, for instance, that in Presbyterian Paisley Abbey once a month, his St Anne’s Mass is sung with great affection by the entire congregation?
youtube.com/watch?v=7YcH5yCSiuE
Gloria
youtube.com/watch?v=bRTCPZy8-rI
Sanctus
youtube.com/watch?v=C8cDhoq46iA
Miserere
“it’s about the difference between respecting, protecting and reinterpreting the centuries’ old tradition of people-friendly Gregorian Chant within the context of congregational participation in the liturgical mass, and the banal sentimental dirges that have infested Sunday worship in most Catholic churches since the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s...”
Of course we have the same issue in our country. The liturgical industrial complex with its crappy, banal, irreverent music needs to be overturned. Ironically, Vatican II’s document on the Sacred Liturgy said Gregorian Chant should hold pride of place, that polyphony is encouraged, that Latin should be retained in the Latin rite, and the faithful should be able to sing the Ordinary parts in Latin. None of that part of Vatican II was EVER implemented! Shame on those who dumped millenia of tradition without proper preservation.
I would rather have a good singing of “Amazing Grace” or “How Great Thou Art” then some of the worse happy-clappy being sung at the present time.
Is Marty Haugen plaguing the Church in Scotland?
I listened to a cantor sing stabat mater Saturday at a Benedictine chapel for a mass.
Yesterday I heard the most banal pop tune, Change Our Hearts at mass in my parish.
What a contrast!
Love my parish, but oh, please can’t we have some music that acutally invites contemplation of God rather than naval gazing?
Vatican II called for the people to learn Gregorian Chant. Nothing about introducing dirges, folk music, rock and or roll.
Just buy “Greatest hits of Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts”, and you will be good to go.
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Good Hymns, Bad Hymns
Gregorian Chant on EWTN
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The "Gathering of Witnesses" (recap Monday's BCL Subcommittee on Liturgy and Music)
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A Change of Tune in the Vatican (shift taking place in liturgical music)
Pope Against Pop Music In Mass
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