Rap or hip-hop Mass

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Since the “folk Mass” (or “guitar Mass” or “Hootenanny Mass”) was an attempt at reaching the youth, why does no one make an attempt to reach today’s youth with their own music?
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Because some people are capable of learning from the mistakes of others rather than repeating those mistakes.
 
So I think the answer I’m seeing emerge here is that we may see rap music at Mass in 100 years once it is no longer “contemporary.” 😜
 
Yeah, but in 100 years, I might be a bit too old to worry about it.
 
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Does anyone know if there has been a rap or hip-hop style Mass?
Since the “folk Mass” (or “guitar Mass” or “Hootenanny Mass”) was an attempt at reaching the youth, why does no one make an attempt to reach today’s youth with their own music?
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First: a rap or hip-hop mass would be HORRIBLE and I doubt it would attract young people to actually come to mass more. Statistics actually show that millennials are actually attracted more to Mass with chant, etc.

Second: the Baby Boomers are still have the “power” in the Church and Baby Boomers don’t like rap. They love their “folk music” and other musical genres that are used today for liturgical music.

So it’s extremely doubtful we will see any kinds of large changes in liturgical music as long as the Baby Boomers are still “in power.”
 
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I’m not really in favor of such a Mass myself, but I wondered whether anyone would argue FOR it. I sometimes go to a large wealthy suburban parish where they have a drumset, wailing pop-style vocals, guitars (of course!), and I wonder why that is okay but not a different style of pop i.e. hip-hop, country, etc.

Also, phil19034, you state that:
" Statistics actually show that millennials are actually attracted more to Mass with chant, etc."
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I would love to see these statistics, and I look for things like this myself, do you have a reference for any statistics like this?
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Statistics actually show that millennials are actually attracted more to Mass with chant, etc
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That is interesting, but I wondering if you have a link on that. I’d like to share it with my neighbor who is a pentecostal pastor with a millennial congregation- that uses guitars and contemporary music.
 
I don’t think that view crosses over to different denominations - esp to
Protestantism. What I’ve heard was very specific to the Catholic Church.
My source is multiple interviews I e heard on Catholic radio.

Anyway, Protestant denominations are very homogeneous. So people pick the
protestant church they attend based on the type of worship and sermons they
like. So it’s very different.

Pentecostal ministers in particular, use music in worship very differently
than Catholics do at Mass.

The Catholic equivalent of a Pentecostal sevice would be something like
Catholic convention, conference and/or guest Speaker outside of Mass.
Catholics can & do use that kind of music during conferences (like SEEK and
the Stubenville Conferences) with great success. But it not during mass.

God Bless
 
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Okay, so just to clarify, there are no stats, right? If you look around,say at a high school, or the mall, how would you try to bring those be kids in to Catholocism, or Christian belief in general?
 
The premise is offensive. There are no “hootenanny” Masses and never has been.
 
Having been to Mass in 3 continents i can tell you that everyone puts a local spin on it, i don’t see the problem.
 
I have not seen one–probably because those aforementioned attempts to reach the youth were embarrassing failures and did more to empty the pews than fill them. Authenticity and continuity beat pandering and fads any day of the week (especially Sunday).
 
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What? There was never a Hootenanny Mass? Google it and you may find out the truth.
 
Because the Mass is not about making you feel good, it’s about giving thanks to God. In other words, the Mass is about God, not you.
 
because we have priests who are not faithful to the Church and it’s liturgy. Then you have priests who have no backbone and are ruled by “liturgists” trying to make the liturgy more, ahem, accessble to children.
 
Your subtle anti-Catholicism consistently comes through in your posts.

It’s the reason why I reverted to Catholicism. Eastern Orthodoxy, unfortunately, has institutional anti-Catholicism built into it.

Contrariwise, Catholicism is very charitable to Orthodoxy.

This is one of the reasons why I concluded Catholicism had greater charity than Orthodoxy. And obviously the true Church is the Church which loves the most.

Keep up your anti-Catholic nonsense. It may just drive more people into the Catholic Church 🙂
 
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