Latin vs vernacular mass

[Cristiano]

Do you mean Near the Cross? I played that this Sunday during offertory. I am with you on the old classic Protestant hymns. There are those though who feel the same way about them as you do about chants, and they love Latin hymns as much as you do the hymns you grew up with.

I entered on Attende Domine (Latin). In try to give a diversity of music to please all, it is unavoidable that some it will also displease some people. Let us accept the good and the bad.

While I understand your definition of protestant hymns from a historical point of view. I would avoid calling them so especially if they are played in Church. Either they are heretical (protestant) and they should not be played in Church, or they are not. If I were to separate them from the culturally Catholic hymns I would just call them Christian hymns.

 

[Cristiano]

I think you are making sweeping (and generally) false assumptions about others’ motives and aptitudes. I for one do not like the irreverance that the Novus Ordo (in my experience is frequently celebrated). As I stated previously, the Novus Ordo can be celebrated properly, but I prefer the solemnity of the EF.

You are making the same sweeping statement about the NO. First and foremost the OF is intrinsically reverent because it is a Mass. The purpose of the Mass is to worship God and by definition that is reverence. People might be irreverent when the celebrate or participate in the Mass. lack of reverence can be interior or exterior. In the last 50 years, the exterior lack of reverence has been observed more frequently in the OF than the EF. Solemnity does not automatically imply increased reverence, is a High Mass more reverent than a Low Mass?

 

[pnewton]

While I understand your definition of protestant hymns from a historical point of view. I would avoid calling them so especially if they are played in Church. Either they are heretical (protestant) and they should not be played in Church, or they are not. If I were to separate them from the culturally Catholic hymns I would just call them Christian hymns.

I thought calling them “hymns written in by a Protestant within their faith tradition but lacking in heresy” a little wordy. To each their own. I never sing hymns, Catholic or Protestant, that are heretical or ill-advised.