Opinions On The New Versions Of Mass Hymns

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Phemie said:
In many cases today we are not asking God anything in prayer we are telling him what to do. In the revised text we are again asking our Father for things. It’s the difference between saying “Dad, give me a car for Christmas” and “Dad, you’ve always been generous and I haven’t always been obedient but if you would see it in you to give me a car for Christmas I would be most grateful.” You’re still asking for a car, but you are being grateful, respectful and recognizing that you don’t necessarily deserve a car.
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In my case my father would have seen through that and been even more determined not to give me the car. 🙂

A better approach for me was to offer him something like a promise to drive him to and from work using his car. And he offered to help me pay for my own car.
 
Phemie said:
Because we have had so many canonizations between 1975 and now, a new Missal was written to include the prayers for those feast days. That Missal, as always, was written in Latin and needed to be translated into the languages we use around the world. Since this had to be done anyway, they decided that this time the translation would be closer to what the Latin actually said than it had been in the present “Sacramentary” which contains a translation equal to translating Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy to another language and reducing it to “I wonder what I should do?”
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Excellent analogy.

But there is NO way to preserve the sounds of Shakespeare in any other language not even in modern English. Sure his writings are allowed to be translated and read by many but one obviously loses the true feel of Shakespeare in any translation.

But that said, watching a play can recapture some of the real Shakespeare so it’s not all text. That’s where the rubrics of the Mass come into play. 😉
 
Hello everyone. While we are on the new Mass hymns, it seems in Canada, something is admiss in the wake of our 4 options (3 settings + 1 unknown option) for the Mass Music. One of the bastions of liturgical music, St. Mikes Cathedral in Downtown Toronto, has done in the last three weeks something terribly, liturgically wrong. Read about it here at Vox Cantor:

voxcantor.blogspot.com/2011/11/toronto-renovation-gone-awry.html
 
I am skeptical of blogs and op-eds that use such terminology like “wreckovation”. Better to listen to the Church than people with such anger.
 
pnewton said:
I am skeptical of blogs and op-eds that use such terminology like “wreckovation”. Better to listen to the Church than people with such anger.
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If you’re renovating with a sledgehammer, ‘wreckovation’ is descriptive.

I think I would be angry if a priest or committee removed items from a church my family had paid for years ago and left nothing or something less beautiful or even ugly in their place.

A pity one couldn’t assemble a time-lapse montage of a 100-year-old church at the time of Sunday Mass. Then invite progressives to defend it.
 
RogerDeCourcy said:
A pity one couldn’t assemble a time-lapse montage of a 100-year-old church at the time of Sunday Mass. Then invite progressives to defend it.
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This has nothing to do with construction. It is music, which no family donates.

I am sure a 2000 year old montage (the actual age of the Church), music would show many changes.
 
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