Thursday, January 07, 2010

Why the choice of vestments can be VERY important

Although this video is in French, you can get the whole story at the URL above.

Well conceived words on Catholic Church music


This fellow thinks like me. Therefore he is correct:

A Fix for Catholic Music by Jeffrey Tucker

There is a sense in which everything is nobler when sung. It would never occur to us to light the candles on a birthday cake and parade into the room while reciting the words: happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear John, happy birthday to you.

John would probably suppose that this was some kind of cruel joke.

People often miss this point when thinking about the Mass. In contrast, the Fathers of Vatican II understood the ennobling power of music. They reasserted in the Council documents the Church’s view that music is critical to liturgy because it assists in making liturgy more beautiful and therefore more fitting for the praise of God.


 
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