I mean that it’s not easy to write music that everybody is going to like. I know a lot of people who like “On Eagles Wings” and sing it to the best of their ability whenever given the opportunity.
I don’t beleive that was the intention of the artist, so no.
I think the Mass of Paul VI is perfectly reverent, celebrated without abuses. I don’t like the TLM because I cannot understand it and cannot hear it well enough to follow it anyway (the silent Canon and everything said in an undertone).
I don’t have a problem with it.If you really mean what you wrote, than you cannot possibly have a problem with the Mass being said in Latin and using Gregorian Chant or Plainchant. After all, it’s not about you is it?
This is kinda what I am getting at. I attend a NO mass that is celebrated in a manner that I think is in line with the intentions of VII. Parts of the mass are said in Latin (which connects you with history and the cathlicity of the Latin Church), some are in English (so you feel like you know what is going on without having to read a missal), chants are sung to give you a taste of 15 centuries of tradition, the Eucharist is treated like it were more valuable than gold, and the priest faces east.
To each his own, being from the old days myself, I can truthfully tell you that I never had much of a problem understanding the Latin, primarily because the translations were right there in the Missal Of course that did require that you read them, but after a short while you were actually able to understand the parts you heard anyway. I was anyway.
I was under the impression that the participation of the congregation was an important part of the NO.
the congregation is very large and everyone responds in Latin, it isn’t hard.
It’s by rote then. Is there a difference between that and ABBA (the Swedish Pop Group) mimicing English and not understanding what they are singing?
It isn’t. It’s just Latin. Some people like it (I *like *Latin, I just think the majority of the Mass should be in the vernacular, as I personally think the Mass evanglizes people into the Church. I know it was part of what did it for me).
I think that was my original point - that English is just as reverent as Latin - and if the translation is sloppy - as is the usual complaint, that should be fixed not done away with.
JKirkLVNV said:Our pastor, an orthodox man, is enamored of Medjugore. Come and visit us, Netmil(name removed by moderator), you can buy a rosary blessed by our sweet Lady Herself.
Well and that’s your opinion as well.
Ah, you shame me, you’re quite right about the tilma of San Juan Diego. I shall ask pardon of the Blessed Mother and I ask your pardon as well. BUT, as to the question of burlap: I can see that in a parish that has no resources whatsoever, but I happen to attend one of the wealthiest parishes in my city, if not my state. We can afford better than burlap and felt. Don’t we have an obligation to do the best WE can do, without depriving the poor who depend on us? Burlap bags were what calf feed came in, where I’m from.
You said it better than I, Netmil(name removed by moderator), probably the reason Our Lord used parables.
really… that would be a tad bit tacky of him.
Isn’t everything rote? My five year old sings in the choir. She doesn’t read well enough to learn it by reading. It’s rote. As was your learning the mass in the vernacular and all your prayers in English.
Thanks!