'Rapper priest' suspended by Catholic Church in Kenya

[tseleehw]

'Rapper priest' suspended by Catholic Church in Kenya

A Roman Catholic diocese in Kenya has suspended a parish priest for rapping during sermons, the BBC reported Monday.

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Maybe they can come up with a liturgical arrangement where they whole mass is rapped instead of chanted.

 

[EvangelistVictor]

Interesting. If it brings people to Christ and the church it could be a good thing. But I’m no expert on the matter. Our superiors know best in these matters.

 

[SacredHeartBassist]

Why suspend him? A priest in my diocese rapped in one of his homilies and I think it’s pretty cool

 

[abucs]

Anyolo said Ogalo can use rap to preach to young people - just not on the altar.

Fair enough.

 

[Mark121359]

A priest in my diocese rapped in one of his homilies and I think it’s pretty cool

Pretty cool huh?..well tell that to Cardinal Robert Sarah.

“There is often a sacrilegious tendency to reduce the Holy Mass to a simple convivial meal, the celebration of a profane feast, the community’s celebration of itself, or even worse, a terrible diversion from the anguish of a life that no longer has meaning or from the fear of meeting God face to face, because His glance unveils and obliges us to look truly and unflinchingly at the ugliness of our interior life.”
~Cardinal Robert Sarah~

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[poche]

It also said that he took off his vestments also.

 

[poche]

• “There is often a sacrilegious tendency to reduce the Holy Mass to a simple convivial meal, the celebration of a profane feast, the community’s celebration of itself, or even worse, a terrible diversion from the anguish of a life that no longer has meaning or from the fear of meeting God face to face, because His glance unveils and obliges us to look truly and unflinchingly at the ugliness of our interior life.”

• “Even today, a significant number of Church leaders underestimate the serious crisis that the Church is going through: relativism in doctrinal, moral and disciplinary teaching, grave abuses, the desacralization and trivialization of the Sacred Liturgy, a merely social and horizontal view of the Church’s mission.”

I believe that the real problem is catechetical.