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Does anybody else agree that modern praise music is relatively speaking very lame? There is nothing more beautiful than praising the Lord with songs but I just listen to a lot of praise music used in the Life Teen liturgy and its sad to think that back in the day people used to have CHANT beautifully sung at every mass…I feel like our generation was cheated…big time.
 
I agree, although I’m sure I’m older than you are (I’ve never been to LifeTeen, which should prove that 😉 ), but I also came of age when this modern genre of hymns was taking over big-time so I can identify with your sentiment. Centuries of the highest art form given to us by history’s greatest composers scrapped in favor of the “Hallmark Hymns” (as one of my friends so aptly puts it).

Then again, my 70+ year-old mother loves many of the Hallmark Hymns and she was raised on the good old-fashioned stuff… Guess it comes down to a matter of taste, and there’s no accounting for that.
 
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Spaceboy:
Does anybody else agree that modern praise music is relatively speaking very lame? There is nothing more beautiful than praising the Lord with songs but I just listen to a lot of praise music used in the Life Teen liturgy and its sad to think that back in the day people used to have CHANT beautifully sung at every mass…I feel like our generation was cheated…big time.
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I know what you mean, if I could (which I should according to Qou Primum and Ecclesia Dei) I would attend the Tridentine Mass. My parish has a huge ‘Risen Christ’ statue that looks like he wants to go flying around the sanctuary in the front of our church, and sometimes we have -no- crucifix in sight.

The music is traditional and pretty good, sometimes-- but always will a guitar. One parish I used to belong to sung some song about the “Master of the Earth, Chicken of the Sea…” for a hymn.

Needless to say it was disturbing, and yet at the same time gave me an overwhelming desire for tuna.
 
Fortunately there are excellent Gregorian chant CD’s out there. Get some and play them at home and in the car. When your friends hear it they will love it.
 
Space,

You’re only cheated if you allow it to continue. I am 31 and was “lucky” enough to begin to participate in the mass right about the time someone took their head off of the bong long enough to give Cary Landry the monopoly on liturgical music for youth. Does anyone else here suffer cold sweats and nausea when reminded of the “Hi, God!” series?

Maintain your interest in sacred music and share it with others your age as well as anyone else who is looking for something other than GIA and OCP. Things are changing for the better, it will just take time.
 
spaceboy, you summed up my thoughts exactly! I’m 23 and crappy 70s-style “Gather” hymns are all I’ve ever heard - though now I am fortunate to attend a parish that uses the red “Worship” hymnal and other traditional vernacular songs. I also don’t care for most “praise music” especially when it is used at Mass. I love Gregorian chant and it breaks my heart that it’s almost non-existent these days.
 
Go Spaceboy Go! I agree with you wholeheartedly. Praise music is to christians what twinkies are to a supermodel. 😛

Let me prescribe to you JS Bach’s Mass in B minor, or Handel’s Messiah. So much sacred church music that blows away the garbage that is played today.
 
I am violently opposed to book burning on principle, but if somebody wants to stack up a pile of Gather and Glory & Praise hymnals I will bring the matches.
 
What songs are you guys talking about more specifically? Although I love traditional, sacred music at Mass because of its sense of God and heavenly worship, I also really like praise and worship music. Not that it’s done appropriately enough for all Masses, but I’ve seen it respectfully done at a parish youth Mass in my diocese, at Franciscan U. student Mass, World Youth Day Masses, and Benedictine College student daily Mass. Songs like “Heart of Worship”, “I Exalt Thee”, “Here I Am To Worship”, “Better Is One Day”, “Breathe”, etc. A lot of those songs can really inspire in me a deep sense of worship and God’s love much the same as the more traditional music (if done in a reverent and appropriate way, of course.)
 
I don’t know alot about chant, but I do like it. I know I am just sick of the only times that Catholics sing/play music in church functions/youth functions…they play protestant songs. I am all about uniting the divided church, but it seem VERY odd that when music is sung in adoration, it is protestant music (you know the people that don’t believe that Jesus is present in the eucharist that you are adoring). If we (catholics) are the largest christian church on earth, why don’t we have our own music?
If we know that the protestant religion is missing some of the truth, it is only fair to say that their music is doing the same.

that is one of the reasons our band started, to inspire people to take their faith seriously, use their talents (yes music!). Praise music is probably the easiest music on earth, so why can’t we make our own?
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Songs like “Heart of Worship”, “I Exalt Thee”, “Here I Am To Worship”, “Better Is One Day”, “Breathe”, etc. QUOTE]

just really bug me…it is great to praise God…but can’t we do more than tell God that he is an awesome God, or tell him that it is better is one day in his courts (since we haven’t even been their yet),

I would just like to see music that has a deeper level of thinking, than a 3rd grade catechisis class.
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**Praise Music…what’s that?👋 **Do I live so far South that I am out of the loop? I have heard the words “praise music” but only on the Evangelical Channel -TBN.

I am surprised that Catholics have adopted that phrase.It sounds SOOoooo Protestant.
 
Maybe we should form a group to offer a yearly prize to the person that composes a vibrant, militant hymn. Or translate old Latin hymns into English. But, alas, Oregon Press would never publish it. Then to militancy might scare the clergy 🙂

P. S. Lets call it adoration music .
 
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goravens:
What songs are you guys talking about more specifically? Although I love traditional, sacred music at Mass because of its sense of God and heavenly worship, I also really like praise and worship music. Not that it’s done appropriately enough for all Masses, but I’ve seen it respectfully done at a parish youth Mass in my diocese, at Franciscan U. student Mass, World Youth Day Masses, and Benedictine College student daily Mass. Songs like “Heart of Worship”, “I Exalt Thee”, “Here I Am To Worship”, “Better Is One Day”, “Breathe”, etc. A lot of those songs can really inspire in me a deep sense of worship and God’s love much the same as the more traditional music (if done in a reverent and appropriate way, of course.)
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I am with you! I love Praise and Worship music like you mentioned. I listen to these songs on CD and they really lift me up.

I happen to love music, almost ALL kinds of good music. I love traditional chants but I also love country gospel, black gospel and everything in between.

Music is a little like food. You can eat steak and potatoes every day of the week if you choose but, in my opinion, you will surely miss out on lots of other good stuff.
 
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Nichevo:
Does anyone else here suffer cold sweats and nausea when reminded of the “Hi, God!” series?
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Oh, man, it’s been so long since I heard about “Hi, God!” Thanks for the trip down memory lane. 😃
 
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Spaceboy:
Does anybody else agree that modern praise music is relatively speaking very lame? There is nothing more beautiful than praising the Lord with songs but I just listen to a lot of praise music used in the Life Teen liturgy and its sad to think that back in the day people used to have CHANT beautifully sung at every mass…I feel like our generation was cheated…big time.
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**I’m a sixty-one year old grandmother, and I LIKE praise and worship music. I also like the traditional hymns, as well as traditional church music. I like it all…I think it all has a place. I even like Haugen and Haas…Jim Cowan is good too, as is John Michael Talbot. **
**I really dislike having people declare one type of music or another “unfit” for Mass. I think it all depends on how the music is done…and perhaps the makeup of the congregation…Youth will probalby like something different than older folks, for instance. **
**We should allow people to enjoy what they like, without feeling that we have to judge or comment about how “awful” the music is. We all are individuals, and have our own individual tastes. It’s OK to like one type of music more than another, but another thing to criticize the choices of others. **
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Catholic Heart said:
**I’m a sixty-one year old grandmother, and I LIKE praise and worship music. I also like the traditional hymns, as well as traditional church music. I like it all…I think it all has a place. I even like Haugen and Haas…Jim Cowan is good too, as is John Michael Talbot. **

**I really dislike having people declare one type of music or another “unfit” for Mass. I think it all depends on how the music is done…and perhaps the makeup of the congregation…Youth will probalby like something different than older folks, for instance. **

**We should allow people to enjoy what they like, without feeling that we have to judge or comment about how “awful” the music is. We all are individuals, and have our own individual tastes. It’s OK to like one type of music more than another, but another thing to criticize the choices of others. **

Catholic Heart
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your large font is so easy to read…I didnt even have to use my bifocals.
Not everbody is going to like the same kind of music…but in the end I think people should accept the fact that Chant is the music of the angels…and almost all other music is unfit when it comes to the true nature of the MASS. I want to puke sometimes when I hear a HOLY HOLY HOLY sound like a lame campfire country song!
 
Hmmmm,

How do you know that chant is the music of the angels?

What a strange thing to say.

Well… maybe you have heard angels singing or have had a conversation with a few. Who am I to argue that point.
 
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