Catholic Church Concerts

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Fair enough. If they own a hall they should use it for any kind of activity (obviously not illegal) if that can make it possible to make more money (For Church related stuff).
 
misstherese said:
It’s consecrated as God’s House for God’s purposes. Mass. Prayer. That’s about it. Not some secular music gig. (that includes classical).
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This “line of thinking” makes me understand so much more the “Line of thinking " that the Church is NOT a building” but it is the people.
 
MichaelP3 said:
This “line of thinking” makes me understand so much more the “Line of thinking " that the Church is NOT a building” but it is the people.
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There are two church definitions. Capital “C” Church means the people, as a whole. Lower case “c” church means the building. God’s house is church with a lower case.
 
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Ok, based on what you have stated, I agree with you.

However, I still have some questions.
  1. do you have a Parish hall / gym / banquet room?
  2. if so, what’s the reason they are using the Church? Why do you think they are using it?
While I agree with you, I’m trying to understand their point of view.
 
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I know a common Catholic reply so I will try it here and then you can experience what it is like!!!

"Can you provide an official Church document backing your claim ".

P.S. and please refer to the actual post!

Regards
 
Here’s the answers: Yes, the parish has a gym & there’s a theater in their local high school.

The reason the church is being used is due to the pipe organ…the music director is obsessed with it & so he came up with

these goofy concerts! It’s just for the music director to play since he’s in love with it & that’s it!
 
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It’s not written anywhere in any document I know of…just a grammar thing.

Church = people, institution as a whole
church = parish, building

A question was on here awhile ago asking about it. Don’t know if I’ll be able to find it but I’ll try
 
ams12 said:
Here’s the answers: Yes, the parish has a gym & there’s a theater in their local high school.

The reason the church is being used is due to the pipe organ…the music director is obsessed with it & so he came up with

these goofy concerts! It’s just for the music director to play since he’s in love with it & that’s it!
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If he loves it so much, why doesn’t he play Mozart?!?!?!
 
I know he’s played Bach…but most of the music is regular songs & a few arias. This kind of activity was never done in that
church in the yrs. it’s been in existence…almost 94 yrs.! Other churches in the diocese have similar pipe organs & you don’t hear

of any concerts! So why this parish needs to have such dumb ‘so-called concerts’ makes no sense! The music director can play the

pipe organ all he wants as he’s practicing…no need to disrespect the church…IT’S THE LORD’S HOUSE!
 
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A closed church that now hosts a Catholic Radio station? Are you talking about WQPH in Fitchburg?
 
You keep calling these concerts “goofy” but haven’t said what music is being played. It’s hard to imagine hard rock or sacrilegious lyrics accompanying a pipe organ.
 
tafan2 said:
Do you really consider Bridge Over Trouble Water religious themed?
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As compared to what? Ave Maria? No. But I do think the lyrics can speak to someone in a particular frame of mind. Personally, I’d like them to play “Into the Mystic” at my funeral, and “Bright Side of the Road” (two Van Morrison tunes) as they wheel the casket down the aisle on the way to internment. Both speak something to me even though they aren’t technically hymns. Probably won’t happen as long as the “Ostrich Catholics” keep running things.
 
I call them ‘goofy’ because that’s what they are! One was on Halloween night…It was called “Spooktacular” evening inside the church with dimmed lights,
ghosts & other things that go bump in the night! It would be in the sanctuary of the church & the organ would be fired up playing Toccata & Fugue in D Minor

by Bach along with Bolero for ogran & percussion instrument & who knows what or when a presence would appear in the shadows! Also asking for a free will offering.

Another theme was “Bugs Bunny & how he got his start”…all kinds of songs. Then there were love songs played for another concert & as I stated, people are

asked to come in their robes, slippers, flip-flops, hair in curlers, etc.! THIS IS A CHURCH FOR GOD’S SAKE! IT IS NOT A THEATER OR KARAOKE CLUB!

Do you think any of the popes would approve of this kind of behavior! I’ve talked to a few religious & they have come close to saying these kinds of activities are

sacrilegious! One pastor of a basilica advised me that these kinds of concerts ARE NOT PERMITTED! He should know!

It’s ridiculous how the pipe organ is held in such high esteem & God’s House is just being pushed aside!

Would you like people coming in your house & doing whatever they want to do…I’m sure you would be upset that they’re being so disrespectful!
 
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Oh, I can get on board of those van Morrison sngs, but bridge of troubled water? Can’t take it.
 
Shame you think that way! We’re not comparing a couple of songs for your funeral to the goofy songs being played inside the church!
What’s wrong with the Ave Maria & the other beautiful hymns? I can just imagine what the pope would say knowing what kind of music is

being played inside the church building!
 
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tfan2 and especially arms12

Okay, when you hear BOTW (if it were played in a church) you would hear blasphemy, insult, whatever. Your choice.

When I hear it if it were played in a church, I would hear

When you’re weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes, I’ll dry them all
I’m on your side, oh, when times get rough
And friends just can’t be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down…

I hear: “Come to me all you are burdened and heavy laden, and I will give you rest…”

When you’re down and out
When you’re on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I’ll take your part, oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

I hear: “I am the Good Shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me”… “What shepherd would not leave the 99 and search for the one who is lost…”

Sail on silver girl
Sail on by
Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine
Oh, if you need a friend
I’m sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

I hear: “For I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light…” “Father … I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them was lost …”

To think what way??? To try and find a meaning beyond what is only on the surface? Suggest you go back to Tantum Ergo and don’t let any other outside influences get in the way of your zeal! I think we see Church in a different light. You, mind numbed lockstep with tradition, me trying to find the gospel in the world around us. Great music is in the world around us.
Shalom
 
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This whole tread has me befuddled. I can agree that the church building is a place of worship and should be respected. Removing the Tabernacle/walling off the altar is a good tactic - but…
Goofy I don’t understand. Did people literally come in rollers and robes, or was it in jest, meaning come as you are? If in rollers and robes, were they considered costumes? I can tell you’re very upset about it and I don’t mean to diminish that. At my former protestant church, they have been staging the church auditorium for VBS for years - too extreme for my taste. But, they’ve also permanently removed the pulpit and choir loft and other traditions.

I guess my only comment is that when Christ returns, people will be in curlers, flip flops and robes, eating food and popsicles and drinking. At that time, all of this won’t matter. I don’t know now you stop them using the church for such when your priest and diocese seem to support it.
 
Don’t know the radio stations call letters, just know they broadcast EWTN Radio programs.

A friend is a volunteer there.

Jim
 
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Well what are you supposed to do when a Bishop or an Abbot of a monastery allows such things to take place inside a church, and they just smile and babble about how it is good for the community .
 
Unless the pastor of the basilica has some authority over the concert-hosting church, his opinion is just that —an opinion. Unless the bishop has a problem, there isn’t one.
 
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