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.
So true. All this is part of the larger PC diversity movement to include guitar, drum, and banjo and hand clapping.
Great articles. Thanks!
Amen, and, bump...
Complimenting ones self is not worship.
How do you feel about a restoration that would use the vernacular? Is Latin a vital component? If so, why?
The Catholic Church is in dire straits in Scotland as far as music goes. Mournful dirges dragged out interminably slowly, with the words often blasphemous, heretical or plain nonsensical, as long as they rhyme it does not seem to matter. The two I hate with a vengeance (and will never go back to a church where I have heard them sung) are “Fill My House Unto the Fullest” and “One bread on Body”. The “St. Louis Jesuits” (who are not Jesuits at all) and their woeful dirges should be banned.