How's the Music?

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roadsend said:
The partially vernacular Asperges you linked is fascinating.
Do you have any indication that they used the vernacular for the Mass itself?
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I’m no on the Native American liturgies (Mohawk, Algonquin, Iroquois, and a few others), but this site has a lot of information on the topic, and it’s worth looking through. As I understand it all the Ordinary and the Propers would be in the vernacular (with some of the Propers simplified or replaced by vernacular hymns), while the silent prayers and all the priest’s parts remained in Latin. I don’t know whether the congregation was expected to makes responses like et cum spiritu tuo and habemus ad dominum in the Latin, or whether these were properly reserved to the ministers. But sometimes (to be inclusive) multiple vernaculars were used in a single Mass.
 
roadsend said:
Amazing how the early missionaries on this continent converted so many thousands, when their typical liturgy consisted of only the Traditional Latin Mass.

Depending on the entertainment value of rock or other popular music to attract and hold converts will only last until a better band with better music comes along in another church down the road somewhere.
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Your sarcasm is hilarious. What business is it of yours what gets them through the door? I’ll them through the door with a porkchop on a string if I have to. What about the encounter with Christ that may follow? Oh, do you mean Jesus won’t acknowledge their cries until they learn to cry out in Latin and can quote the Catechism? He won’t listen until they can say the Hail Mary? Or perhaps what he would object to is their ignorance at continuing the Our Father with “…for Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen”. Please!

And by the way, I believe any music is holy if it is sung to Jesus from a sincere heart. Before we play, we pray for that. By the way, I love chant too - in its place.
 
I don’t have a problem with modern music as such, but I find that most modern hymns used in Church have lyrics that are simplistic, shallow and bland. Many of the ancient hymns have an uplifting mystical element to their lyrics that the modern hymns lack,. That is why I prefer them.
 
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