Disrespectful "rapping monk" from the order of franciscans

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Can you believe this is now the norm to make boastful rap videos filmed and recorded inside the church with the blessed sacrament inside. Boy have the times changed, a rapping monk paid to live as a monk to do these shenanigans with our tithes. Jesus help us!!,
 
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Actually, after watching the video posted, I don’t see evidence that he sings rap in the church. There are depictions of him inside the church that accompany the video, but in those depictions, he isn’t rapping inside church. He’s rapping in a room with a altar to the Blessed Virgin and on a roof.

Did you listen to the lyrics? I don’t pick up what you took as boastful. He’s not a great rapper, but that is another issue. (OK, full disclosure: I don’t like rap and probably wouldn’t like even great rap if I heard it. So maybe he’s a good rapper.)

This fellow came from a life where rapping was the poetry. He’s asking to be preserved with the help of the saints from going back. It is secular music, don’t get me wrong, it wouldn’t be appropriate for worship in church, but making music that depicts the celibate monastic life as something a rapper would embrace isn’t so terrible.
 
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Relax. There’s no problem here and nothing to be scandalized about.

He’s giving God glory in a style of music he enjoys and you do not. Did you even listen to the words? There is nothing boastful about them. And recording a rap music video is no better or worse than a priest or consecrated religious recording a video singing opera, or chant.

The filming in the church was of a monk praying. If you’re scandalized by that I dread to think how you manage to get through an ordinary Sunday mass.

And finally, nobody is “paid to live as a monk.” The religious life is a vocation. And the vow of poverty is real – I lived it as a postulant and novice in a contemplative community. There is no payment – except as he says in the video, with eternal life! :+1:t4:

There’s nothing wrong with this video at all. Time to move on.
 
I cannot judge the lyrics that I don’t understand.

He probably do this, as a member of a mendiant order, he probably live in a neighboorhood where the rap culture is predomminent. So he use this canal to express his faith and evangelized.

Rap is a great way to express emotions, idea, feelings, etc. It is a sort of street poetry.

Yet, it is a paradoxal for a monk to use it. First, rap and religion don’t match easily, as this sort of music is more a way to express relellion. Then it is often practiced by rude men, have explicit sexual connotations and express violence. Exact opposite of what a monk is supposed to be!

So I can understand that some people can find it shoking. I am not completly at ease myself. More, with the Church decorum.
 
Cardi b had perfect timing and she rapped in a way that young women could relate to. She used to be a stripper and she once had ugly teeth. She’s like an underdog and people eat that stuff up because they wanna be her.
 
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I know a guy who used to be a hardcore gang member and criminal. He was in prison for very, very serious crimes.

He came to Jesus and turned his life completely around. Now he makes rap music with Christian lyrics and ministers to other gang members.

At my old church, he actually performed his rap music at our Easter service. Not my choice, but he was very inspirational just with the lives that he’s touched.

I don’t like rap music, but he is living an authentic life and reaching out to people that are on the fringes of society.

So, just because this monk is rapping doesn’t necessarily make it wrong. God uses people in all walks of life. It’s ok for other Christians or Catholics to be different than us. God loves them, too, don’tcha know? 😉😉
 
Most people on CAF hate rap and don’t listen to it. But yeah, it’s a legitimate genre of music. Even though a lot of rappers talk about drugs and sex and murdering people, a lot don’t.
 
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I see absolutely nothing wrong this except he’s a terrible rapper
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Yeah, he is pretty bad, but I love that he did it anyway.
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(OK, full disclosure: I don’t like rap and probably wouldn’t like even great rap if I heard it. So maybe he’s a good rapper.)
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My only knowledge of rap comes from the musical Hamilton. 😂

What I noticed in the video is that his timing is off. Rap needs to fit with the beat somehow, and express some sort of rhythmic unity – he misses the mark a bit.

So it ain’t Hamilton. It’s still better than this middle-aged music teacher could do! 🤣
 
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Moved to spirituality.

I very much do not listen to rap of any type–but i find it less painful than so-called “Christian music” . . .

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What ever happened to ave maria. This is sick! Give me a break you want this in church
 
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