Liturgical Music in Africa (in Latin, of course!)

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For those who think that Catholic Africans don’t know Latin and/or don’t chant in Latin, here’s a useful link.

thepelicans.co.uk/

Click “Sounds Familiar”, then click where it says:
.Click here to access the separate recordings of The Kyrie, The Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Agnus Dei — and for further background information

and listen to the sounds of a thriving Faith! 🙂

Quite frankly, if they can have Mass in Latin (in a culture totally unlike the European and Latin-language influenced culture of the West) - then we in the West can have Mass in Latin. In the Novus Ordo Rite.
 
What? No Zimbabwe Catholic Press? How can they have full and active participation? 😃
 
I first heard Missa Luba in my freshman year of college in 1969. Latin set to African music. Awesome. How much of our liturgical music is set to Italian Rennaissance dance music? I’ve heard Latin Masses set to Carribean folk tunes amd from those of the Andes and Aztecan Mexico. We just had a Creole Mass (in Latin) set to the rhythyms of New Orleans, Gottschalk, Dixieland, Ragtime and Gospel. They left out the Cajuns though.

No matter what the music, rhythym or instrument, Gloria in Excelsis Deo meant the same thing. A unifying thing.
 
I’ve been listening to that over and over again in my cube at work ( headphones on).

I LOVE IT!!!
Quite frankly, if they can have Mass in Latin (in a culture totally unlike the European and Latin-language influenced culture of the West) - then we in the West can have Mass in Latin. In the Novus Ordo Rite.
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Yep, I had a wonderful experience at the Latin (N.O.) Mass in the Cathedral in Seoul, Korea once. 👍
 
Brendan said:
I’ve been listening to that over and over again in my cube at work ( headphones on).

I LOVE IT!!!

Yep, I had a wonderful experience at the Latin (N.O.) Mass in the Cathedral in Seoul, Korea once. 👍
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Glad you like it! 😃
 
All of this kind of begs the question. Latin (and Greek) were the universal language of HMC before 65. It is possible to write music in Latin for various cultures. I saw a New Orleans’ Creole Mass on our PBS which, unfortunately, has not made to Amazon

masterdigital.com/examples/data/cr01000.htm

No sound samples unfortunately. But I got to see it performed in St. Louis Cathedral on our PBS. Awesome! Ragtime. Gottschalk. Dixieland. Gospel. A musical history of New Orleans. The concert performance with the seond liners I would NOT like to see at a Mass.
 
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What? No Zimbabwe Catholic Press? How can they have full and active participation? 😃
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Pax tecum!

And not only that, but how are they supposed to have full and active participation if they’re going back to the Dark Ages by using that Latin stuff that no one understands? And how are the youth going to be able to relate to that old fashioned “pre-VII” music? No LifeTeen Africa chapter???

In Christ,
Rand
 
Pax vobiscum!

I just got a chance to listen to this (I was at a computer with no speakers last night when I made my previous post). This is great! How beautiful!

In Christ,
Rand
 
Rand_Al_Thor said:
Pax tecum!

And not only that, but how are they supposed to have full and active participation if they’re going back to the Dark Ages by using that Latin stuff that no one understands? And how are the youth going to be able to relate to that old fashioned “pre-VII” music? No LifeTeen Africa chapter???

In Christ,
Rand
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Gee, I guess this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that seminaries in sub-Saharan African countries are bursting with vocations while some American and European seminaries are closing their doors. :whistle: And the Africans consider us mission territory!
 
Cavaille-Coll said:
Gee, I guess this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that seminaries in sub-Saharan African countries are bursting with vocations while some American and European seminaries are closing their doors. :whistle: And the Africans consider us mission territory!
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Here in south Louisiana we have Indian (from the subcontinent) priests. I haven’t seen such abject reverence in a NO Mass . And I love the Indian accent! The priests come and serve in our diocese on six months to a year basis. Did I tell you we exchange recipes? Seriously. And shouldn’t that be the way amongst the faimily of God? In a very real sense, Mass in the vernacular divides us rather than unites us.
 
brotherhrolf said:
Here in south Louisiana we have Indian (from the subcontinent) priests. I haven’t seen such abject reverence in a NO Mass . And I love the Indian accent! The priests come and serve in our diocese on six months to a year basis. Did I tell you we exchange recipes? Seriously. And shouldn’t that be the way amongst the faimily of God? In a very real sense, Mass in the vernacular divides us rather than unites us.
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Pax tecum!

I saw an Eastern Rite liturgy on EWTN one day and it was an Indian Rite, though I don’t recall the official name of it. Are these priests you are talking about Eastern Rite or Latin Rite?

In Christ,
Rand
 
Rand_Al_Thor said:
Pax tecum!

I saw an Eastern Rite liturgy on EWTN one day and it was an Indian Rite, though I don’t recall the official name of it. Are these priests you are talking about Eastern Rite or Latin Rite?

In Christ,
Rand
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No, these are Latin Rite Indian priests. They not only serve at our cathedral parish but they also serve in our more traditional NO parishes - whcih says a lot.
 
Misa Lube, by the way, was originally intended for the classical Roman Rite (TLM).
 
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