Liturgical Music Borderline Sacrilegious????

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TheMc said:
Wow. I have even less respect for him to think that he has the gall to serve that c**p to youth.
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Do today’s youth even know who Queen was? 🙂

I will be interested to see what this guy does with the music from here.
 
emmaberry said:
UPDATE: Well, sadly, our priest told us that this guy will be our music minister. Apparently he is redeemed from the questionable music choices because he thought it was a youth mass…I don’t see how that makes it any better but hopefully he learned a lesson and will never bring out Queen during the liturgy again!!!
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Might I suggest that he is a bit out of touch with today’s youth, and with what is appropriate at any mass regardless of the audience? Double whammy. 🙂
 
YoungTradCath said:
Might I suggest that he is a bit out of touch with today’s youth
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He’s out of touch with more than the youth if you ask me…

De Musica Sacra no 68:

“The director, organist, and other instrumentalists should be well trained in instrumental techniques, and the laws of sacred music…”
 
TheMc said:
He’s out of touch with more than the youth if you ask me…

De Musica Sacra no 68:

“The director, organist, and other instrumentalists should be well trained in instrumental techniques, and the laws of sacred music…”
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Well, the “laws” of sacred music aren’t so much laws as “very very strong recommendations” that turn out to mean nothing 99% of the time.
 
Well everybody my parish has a new music minister 😦
He was hired-our Priest said that he learned his lesson, etc.
 
Well, as someone who has been to a Mass that was really teen oriented I wouldn’t say there is anything wrong with the music genre as long as it’s…liturgical I guess haha 🙂

However…I don’t really feel like that is acceptable. At the very least I would request that they never bring him back…like it’s fun to parody songs I guess, but that’s totally not appropriate for church. At all.
 
emmaberry said:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=619860&highlight=attending+anglican+mass

I do not know if I would attend Episcopal services without grave/serious reason…
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I read the first post of the thread you link to here, and I would not be interested in visiting that church either. However, the service I attended was extremely reverent, somber, and serious- more so than some Catholic Mass services I’ve attended. If I were to base my opinion of all Episcopalian churches on what the original poster who began this other thread describes, I think that would be rather close minded and judgmental.
 
Faithdancer said:
I read the first post of the thread you link to here, and I would not be interested in visiting that church either. However, the service I attended was extremely reverent, somber, and serious- more so than some Catholic Mass services I’ve attended. If I were to base my opinion of all Episcopalian churches on the basis of this other thread, I think that would be rather close minded and judgmental.
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There are both Catholic churches and Anglican ones that do really dreadful liturgies. It isn’t confined to one religion. However, what I find so ironic is that Catholic churches really have no excuse. They have the fullness of the truth, they have a 2,000 year tradition from which to draw innumerable riches beyond comparison, and they have the widest presence of any Christian religion in the world. Anglicanism only has a fraction of that. I really think Catholics have no excuse to have poor liturgies other than just lazy people doing them. I find it almost asinine that the Catholic Church has so much to draw from, yet so many of the parishes I have attended mass in just do awful masses. It really confounds me.
 
YoungTradCath said:
There are both Catholic churches and Anglican ones that do really dreadful liturgies. It isn’t confined to one religion. However, what I find so ironic is that Catholic churches really have no excuse. They have the fullness of the truth, they have a 2,000 year tradition from which to draw innumerable riches beyond comparison, and they have the widest presence of any Christian religion in the world. Anglicanism only has a fraction of that. I really think Catholics have no excuse to have poor liturgies other than just lazy people doing them. I find it almost asinine that the Catholic Church has so much to draw from, yet so many of the parishes I have attended mass in just do awful masses. It really confounds me.
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And I heartily agree with you. Complacency, perhaps? Maybe the infusion of fervor from the influx of conservative Anglicans will be contagious.

And on the subject of the Eucharist, ever notice how cavalierly some Catholics treat it at Mass? How many parishioners can even define transsubtantiation? Although I didn’t partake of communion at the Episcopal, in reality Anglo-Catholic service I attended, I was impressed with the reverence I saw for the Sacrament, “valid” or not.
 
Faithdancer said:
And I heartily agree with you. Complacency, perhaps? Maybe the infusion of fervor from the influx of conservative Anglicans will be contagious.

And on the subject of the Eucharist, ever notice how cavalierly some Catholics treat it at Mass? How many parishioners can even define transsubtantiation? Although I didn’t partake of communion at the Episcopal, in reality Anglo-Catholic service I attended, I was impressed with the reverence I saw for the Sacrament, “valid” or not.
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I believe it is because of a complete misrepresentation of Vatican II. I really don’t think there’s any complacency. That’s a word I don’t think could ever describe the Catholic Church, although the outcome seems to be the same as we are experiencing now.
 
YoungTradCath said:
I believe it is because of a complete misrepresentation of Vatican II. I really don’t think there’s any complacency. That’s a word I don’t think could ever describe the Catholic Church, although the outcome seems to be the same as we are experiencing now.
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Oh, don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that the priests are complacent. But where is the fire in the congregation? Where is the sense of evangelical urgency? Go to Mass once a week, arrive in the middle of the second reading and leave right after the Eucharist- which is taken in a desultory manner…this certainly doesn’t characterize all, but far too many, IMHO. If that isn’t complacency, what is it? Lack of adult catechism, perhaps? I know that is a pet subject of our Pope, and I think he is right on!
 
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