Survey on Catholic Music

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“Charlene Dorrian, a Silver Spring resident who has been coordinating *folk-style music *at St. John the Baptist Church for nearly 30 years, said congregational singing was an ‘‘uphill kind of singing,” and getting people to sing while going up to the altar for Holy Communion, for example, was still difficult.”

Perhaps the folk music is the problem. Hmmm…what happened 30 years ago:confused:

Has anyone heard of people singing while going up to communion? Maybe I have been going to a Latin Mass parish for too long but isn’t that time supposed be used for preparing interiorly for receiving our lord?
 
thedavidwilson said:
Has anyone heard of people singing while going up to communion? Maybe I have been going to a Latin Mass parish for too long but isn’t that time supposed be used for preparing interiorly for receiving our lord?
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I believe it was St. Augustine who said, “He who sings, prays twice.” I will sing along softly while I stand in line if I know the song, and I meditate upon the words as I sing them; I’m not just singing for the sake of singing. Who is anyone to say that this isn’t part of my interior preparation?
 
<<Has anyone heard of people singing while going up to communion?>>

It happens in Byzantine Catholic and Orthodox churches all the time!

The Latin rite is not the only liturgy in the Church, you know.
 
I always sing going up to communion, if the song is common enough for me to know the words and I find it meditative. But I notice I am in the minority.
 
thedavidwilson said:
Has anyone heard of people singing while going up to communion? Maybe I have been going to a Latin Mass parish for too long but isn’t that time supposed be used for preparing interiorly for receiving our lord?
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Mass before Vatican II was about preparing to receive Our Lord.

Mass since Vatican II is all about community… or in other words, the Great WE. It’s all about us, us, us, us.

In all too many cases, Christ is secondary to Community, and the Church, rather than being a means of grace to save immortal souls, is simply another public welfare agency. It doesn’t matter how holy you make (or don’t make) yourself, as long as you’re passionate about social justice!

Now, let’s all make a banner!
 
The point is not singing during communion or not. The point is the music appropriate for Mass, and appropriate for the specific time of the Mass? I have rarely seen appropriate music at Mass here in California. The music and instruments are usually all contemporary. We must never forget that Mass is about worship and a sacrafice at the altar, not for our entertaiinment.
 
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