On the Music

The Washington Post on liturgical music today...

Catholics don't argue about
abortion or the death penalty nearly as much as they argue about what
music is sung (or not sung, or used to be sung) at their local Sunday
Mass. It was ever thus -- at least since the 1960s, when Sister first
shortened her habit, strummed a G7 chord and, to hear some Catholics
tell it, all heck broke loose.

Among his more fastidious
devotees, Pope Benedict XVI is valued most for the fact that he is not
Casey Kasem, and Mass is no place for a hit parade, and church is most
relevant when it is serious. (The point of this trip is just that: G et
serious.) Do not hold your breath waiting for "One Bread, One Body" --
a '70s liturgical hit at most American parishes -- to be performed at
His Holiness's mega-Mass tomorrow at Nationals Park.

Read the whole article.

No related posts.