Thinking of the "Folk Mass"

[TheMc]

People who enjoyed singing those songs and volunteering to sing in those choirs were not being irreverent nor heretical.

I’m sorry, if you are singing something like:
“Not to preach our creeds or customs, But to build a bridge of care”

then you are being heretical. That is directly against the great commission. It matters not if you are a volunteer, are enjoying it, or don’t know better. You are singing what is objectively known as heresy. There are many other songs like this.

 

[MarkThompson]

I’m sorry, if you are singing something like:
“Not to preach our creeds or customs, But to build a bridge of care”

then you are being heretical. That is directly against the great commission. It matters not if you are a volunteer, are enjoying it, or don’t know better. You are singing what is objectively known as heresy. There are many other songs like this.

That song is from 1992 (about 20 years after the folk-Mass era), and, anyway, is set to BEACH SPRING (not folk music in the sense meant here), so really it is irrelevant to this discussion.

 

[SMHW]

That song is from 1992 (about 20 years after the folk-Mass era), and, anyway, is set to BEACH SPRING (not folk music in the sense meant here), so really it is irrelevant to this discussion.

Yeah. Folk music pretty much ended around the time Glory and Praise came out. (I don’t consider St. Louis Jesuits to be folk music; it’s kind of its own style. Bob Hurd and Ken Canedo are usually more soft rock than they are folk. Ken’s Mass of Glory was supposed to be Gospel style, which is yet another style.)

And yes. We know better now about what is truly appropriate for Mass. I just know that I some of the old music is partly responsible for me wanting to be at Mass long enough to appreciate the beauty of “real” sacred music. And that is why some of us have fond memories.