Mass appropriate "style"

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So I am visiting mom (82) and going to mass (2nd time in my life). I’m not Catholic. Beautiful building albeit a lot of statues. So the music begins. BOOM BOOM BOOM drums, bass guitar, electric guitar! Shocked at how irreverent this noise is. Some lady with a snug short dress got up and said some things. The procession with the priest and various attendents was neat. I like the pageantry. Great sermon even with thick Indian accent. REALLY good. Communion was interesting to see but whenever the music played the sound was not matching what my eyes were seeing. I told my mom afterwards that I could not believe she liked rock n roll church and was even more flabbergasted that my father had liked it. To which she told me I was just too conservative and traditional. The music was a bit distracting but I will go again but when they have more traditional church music. I liked it!
 
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Try going to a weekday mass, too. Those tend to be more quiet, less music. Or if there’s one near you, try a Latin mass. No rock music there.
 
FSSP or ICKSP parishes do not have this. If you want more reverent, theyre a good place to start looking.
 
The Mass is the Mass.
All the rest are (apparently) distractions.

There is no such thing as a rock and roll church. I’m sorry you were disappointed with the way they worship at that parish, Perhaps try another more subdued parish.
 
Can’t imagine this thread will end well…

Different people have different tastes. Music isn’t illegitimate just because you don’t like it, and really, your thoughts about the woman’s dress have nothing to do with anything.
 
There have already been multiple threads discussing and debating contemporary music at Mass and how people, especially women, dress for Mass.

You probably don’t know this, having not been to many Masses, but there are plenty of churches where you could hear a Mass with hymns played on an organ.

As for “ladies stay seated”, there are many, many women who participate as altar servers, lectors, EMHCs (the ones that help distributed Holy Communion), and music ministers, so you are probably not going to find a place where women “stay seated” unless you want to attend a Traditional Latin Mass. I would note that in the vast majority of churches where I see women performing functions on the altar, they are mostly over age 50 and appropriately dressed.
 
Sometimes contemporary music is played too loud. Still, it’s your preference and others have theirs. The church makes allowances for culture. If you don’t like it, don’t go.
 
It would be really cool to learn Latin just to understand EF mass completely
 
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It would be really cool to learn Latin just to understand EF mass completely
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I learned Latin very young. I’ve been to many Latin “Low” Masses. Honestly, I still prefer Mass in my native tongue.
 
You do? In the EF mass, if the priest wants to make a sort of speech about life not taken out of the Bible, would he do so in Latin? You know, like commenting on politics
 
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You do? In the EF mass, if the priest wants to make a sort of speech about life not taken out of the Bible, would he do so in Latin? You know, like commenting on politics
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You mean the homily? The homily is in whatever language the people speak.

The readings are done in Latin, but re-read before the homily.

Priests saying an OF or EF Mass have no reason to comment on politics.

I guess being greeted, hearing the consecration etc in my everyday language is meaningful to me.
 
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Different prayers in the Latin Mass are said in different tones of voice- a lot is in a very low tone that you probably would even be able to make out even if you were in the front row and were fluent in Latin.
 
True. Although, if you’ve gone to the EF for a while and know the general location of where you are in the Mass, sometimes it is good to just soak it all in without the missal. You don’t need to understand every single word to participate in the Mass.
 
I coud very much imagine that… I am pretty new to TLM, but I can see where you are coming from.
 
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