Best Mass Settings (And worst!)

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Norm, yes. Their music is horrible. Anything from Praise and Worship, doesn’t qualify as good music to be heard at Mass. There are also songs that are not from Praise and Worship, that I have heard, and are terrible. For example, “Let There be Peace on Earth,” “City of God,” “Table of Plenty,” “Go Make a Difference,” and so on and so forth.

Some other songs that I really hate: “Shine. Jesus, Shine.” “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High,” “Awesome God,” “Come, Now is the Time to Worship,” “We Are One Body, One Body in Christ, and We Do Not Stand Alone,” and “Love Has Come.”

This is a non-exhaustive list.
 
Phemie said:
I hadn’t heard a Greek Kyrie in decades when I was standing in a record shop in Charlottetown PEI and this song came on. Orbis Factor?
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Yes that’s Orbis Factor, variant B.

At the abbey at Mass today, they used the simpler variant A which is older.
 
OraLabora said:
Yes that’s Orbis Factor, variant B.

At the abbey at Mass today, they used the simpler variant A which is older.
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It’s pretty bad when your first Gregorian chant in decades is in this type of music.
 
hcruz402 said:
Norm, yes. Their music is horrible. Anything from Praise and Worship, doesn’t qualify as good music to be heard at Mass. There are also songs that are not from Praise and Worship, that I have heard, and are terrible. For example, “Let There be Peace on Earth,” “City of God,” “Table of Plenty,” “Go Make a Difference,” and so on and so forth.

Some other songs that I really hate: “Shine. Jesus, Shine.” “Lord, I Lift Your Name on High,” “Awesome God,” “Come, Now is the Time to Worship,” “We Are One Body, One Body in Christ, and We Do Not Stand Alone,” and “Love Has Come.”

This is a non-exhaustive list.
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Why should your personal emotional preferences dictate what music other Catholics are allowed to experience? You claim in absolute terms that these songs don’t “qualify as good music to be heard at Mass.” By what objective criteria?

I recommend that you read all of Musicam Sacram and Sacrosanctum Concilium (and not just the lines the liturgy blogs cite out of context). Once you have read and understood these, you will have the tools to judge the music being played at mass based on the objective criteria set forth by the church. Here are links:
-Musicam Sacram: vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_instr_19670305_musicam-sacram_en.html
-Sacrosanctum Concilium: vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html

Here is a blog post of mine explaining portions of these documents: contemporaryorthodoxy.weebly.com/blog/guitar-in-liturgical-music

For the record, some of these song I also hate, based on objective criteria derived from the liturgical documents of the church:
-Go Make a Difference, because it barely mentions God (I think the composer of this song, Steve Angrisano, would not be happy to find that this song is being played at masses)
-Awesome God, because the verses are silly and lack any theological substance (Rich Mullins hated the song and regretted writing it)
-Lord I Lift Your Name on High, which is a great song to pump up middle school students, but lacks the theological depth to be played at mass.

On the other hand, I like some of the others you listed, many of which I think have great theological depth and are easy for congregations to sing.
 
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