I think you’re sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong. If it is, indeed, your old parish then mind your own business. Do you want members of other parishes complaining to the bishop how your parish is so orthodox?
Gee, Timidity, you don’t come across as timid at all. That has to be one of the bluntest, most direct, and opinionated posts you could have come up with. :tsktsk: If you couldn’t have found a nicer way to say it, maybe you shouldn’t have posted at all. Merry Christmas to you too.
Do you want members of this forum thinking you are a jerk for being so rude to a person who just wanted some friendly advice?
I wasn’t rude. I was amazingly blunt. And she wasn’t looking for advice, she was looking for opinions, so I gave her mine.
Ah, but the opinion I wanted was about the choice of music, which you didn’t give. And yes, you were amazingly blunt. Your answer actually hurt my feelings and I was only here for a little Christmas Eve conversation. But I understand you can’t see through a keyboard to see my emotions. Only thing wrong with computer conversations. I sincerely hope you have a Merry Christmas.http://forums.catholic-questions.org/images/icons/icon7.gif
I attended Carols before Mass last night and it was lovely. All the carols were religious and before each one our pastoral associate read either a quote from the bible or a meditation which led into the next carol. A couple of years ago when our PP was new to the parish he permitted the "on the lawn carols’ be held in the church because the weather was inclement. This decision caused uproar in the parish once the news got around what had happened e.g. a rock band in the sanctuary. Feedback led him to state that in future if carols can’t be held on the lawn they will be held in the hall.
I didn’t expect to do anything about their music; I just thought it was a bad choice for Christmas Mass.I am still friends with several people from my old parish and they keep me informed on what is going on. You see, I left that parish partly because of this music director and I wasn’t alone. Our choir went from 27 members at Easter to about 9 members now. But I belonged to that parish for about 17 years and I guess it’s kind of hard to let go. Although I think it happened for a reason because now I’m in a different choir that I love.Moira, Merry Christmas
That sounds like a great way to introduce carols! We had a spiritual concert once with a lot of good gospel music and each song was introduced by telling about the slaves and how the song came into being.
Although I deplore secular music in church I tend to agree with the comment that if it is your former parish you can’t do much about it. The feedback has to come from the parishioners. Hopefully, enough of them will be correctly formed and they will discuss the matter with the PP in charity.
