Posted on 11/22/2007, 4:54:40 AM by kellynla
After reintroducing the Latin Tridentine Mass, the Pope wants to widen the use of Gregorian chant and baroque sacred music.
In an address to the bishops and priests of St Peter's Basilica, he said that there needed to be "continuity with tradition" in their prayers and music.
He referred pointedly to "the time of St Gregory the Great", the pope who gave his name to Gregorian chant.
Gregorian chant has been reinstituted as the primary form of singing by the new choir director of St Peter's, Father Pierre Paul.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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No more Kumbaya? You gotta love this Pope.
WOW Monk check this out
No more “Jesus Is My Boyfriend” songs either.
This Lutheran is liking this pope!
This Jew is liking - heh - loving this Pope!
Can he purge rap music from the planet ?
This is good news.
This is one young-thinking Holy Father.
I want everyone to consider that thought. Nowadays, the old fuddie-duddies are the guitar-and-tambourine Kumbaya crowd.
A return to the Church classics recalls truly that we were all young, once. And that those who believe grow not older, but richer in the Spirit.
;^)
This Anglican is liking this Pope!
He’s Pope. He can have whatever music he wants.
Thank you, Lord! Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!
I hate modern gospel and 'praise' music like God hates sin.
He is a pope to be proud of, that’s for sure. In a nice humble way of course :-).
At the Vatican website, you can download this year’s Christmas liturgical music. It’s baroque... It’s goooooood....
Oh yes I hear that, I am not a get in the aisle and dance sort of fellow myself, it seems somewhat preposterous but that is just my point of view. Keeping a solemn and reverent tone would be more suitable.
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