Church Styles & Worship

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Art, architecture, and music affect me in ways nothing else (except for God, of course) can. I like older styles of music, art, and architecture (Classical and earlier), and I don’t care for much else. The statues, sacred art, sacred music, and everything else found in traditional Catholic churches help me pray- when I go to one, I feel like I have been lifted up to God- I love churches like that.
 
Older style Churches enhance the vertical worship during Mass.

Most have the organ and choir in the back where the music is initiated and passed forward through the congregation to the altar. (no grandstanding by the singers either)

The flow of the Church is one of reverence, with the Tabernacle, Altar and Crucifix in center and harmony, and not at odds with each other.

Statues that remind us of history are teaching lessons for children, not distractions.

Even modern Churches could accomplish this if desired. But most expolit the ample opportunities for showmanship and horizontal worship.
 
I voted older styles, because I love the look of a newly discovered traditional Church, with all its beauty. But in reality I know it doesn’t matter, the pure joy is in being with God and receiving the Eucharist, and celebrating the sacrifice of the Mass with Jesus. I could do that in a shack and be very joyful.
 
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samaritan:
can anyone help me urgently please

i am assisting a young girl with an assignment and one of the

questions asked is - Describe one element in your own church

services that is common and one element that is indigenous. show clearly why you have chosen to call them common or indigenous.

we have no idea how to answer this question as the different catholic

churches /parishes here in south africa, all have the same routine

and same proceedings, and hardly any change throughout the country. if the question pertains to church as in catholic church

generally - we still have no idea how to answer the question - as although we have different cultures here - the only other way the mass is celebrated is in that persons language, but does that constitute a change in the way of worship???

Thanks a lot for any help - please reply through forum or e mail

thank you
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When the priest is in " (name removed by moderator)ersona christa ((SP)) " the words cannot be changed they are rooted in the Bible and spoken by Christ and the Apostles. The Eucharist is set and as such is common throughout the Church and cannot be changed, except into a common language - and here is the arguement of the norvus ordo or TLM.

Song’s, readings vary by language and verbage - however readings must come from the Bible and songsmust be in accord with it (original text) and the teaching of the church. Thank God Your RC churches are so united and stable. That is good. Indigenous is country to country. Or in your case in S. Africa I don’t know may some churches allow dances some dont’t. I the the USA most of us frown on dancing in church.
 
The older styles create a sense of awe and silence in the soul, allowing one to feel God and to commune with Him more directly. The modern styles of Christian Rock and upbeat praise and worship are productive towards a re-charge of spiritual zeal, but can one honestly say that they are able to fully focus on God while jumping up and down? Yes we can praise Him while doing that but its not as effective a method of being able to seek His will or contemplating His immense goodness. To me anyway.
 
For me, I prefer older churches. For some reason, they seem to be more condusive to workship. This does not mean newer churches are not. In fact, the church I belong to is a relatively new building, but is very traditional in appearance.

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“Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi”
As we worship is how we pray. For me the older styles are far more conducive to worship. When I walk into a church like Sacred Heart in Tampa, for example, I immediately feel the presence of God. We’re influenced by our surroundings, and I believe it was St. Augustine that said that the senses are the conduit to the Divine. Well, the environment of the newer sterile churches just doesn’t do it for me. As Dr. Phil says, “how’s that working for you?” Well the new churches and the worship the styles engender just don’t lead me on the stairway to heaven.
 
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