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To: AlbionGirl
I think you are incorrect AG. Maybe you can cite for me the history of eucharistic celebrations where no hymns were ever sung during or after communion?

The Christian Church ain't a quaker meeting

19 posted on 10/29/2004 9:39:09 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic
You see things a certain way, I see them another. You have important and influential Catholics who would defend your point of view. There are also prominent and influential Catholics who would defend my point of view. Catholics on both sides, I might add, of good will.

So, what's the point of us having this confab, really? You don't find singing during Administration of the Holy Eucharist distracting, I have no problem with your difference of opinion.

As for me, I seek the quietude I find condusive to Conversation with the Lord. And I don't think the Lord is going to say, 'Oh puhleeze, get off your knees, will you, for goodness sake? You're offending me and most of all the Council.'

25 posted on 10/29/2004 9:54:32 AM PDT by AlbionGirl ('Mr. Communal's reasoning is full of tricks, and butterfly suggestions...")
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To: bornacatholic; dsc

Prior to vatican II, there was no congregational singing - required nor encouraged. However, it was unoffical custom in some locales (particularly in non-Irish "ethnic" parishes) to sing hymns in English (or German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovak, etc.) during mass.

At that time, if there was a hymn sung during communion, it would usually have been toward the end, to allow most people to pryaer privately in peace.

That is the point of Holy Communion: Communion itself, with God. not with each other......not by singing modernistic songs of personal ego renewal, which in all too many cases, blaspheme, espouse heresy, etc.

The mass does not need, nor does it require music - at all. Not A Catholic one , at any rate. Music is a "decoration: - an "add on". The mass is better without music, as then one must concentrate wholly and completely upon the mystical sacrifice and all too real miracle taking place in front of you, under the appearance of bread and wine.

To conclude: "can cite for me the history of eucharistic celebrations where no hymns were ever sung during or after communion?"

Sure - its called a low mass. And it was for the most part said silently for centuries. Music, by and large, was reserved for the high mass.


28 posted on 10/29/2004 2:29:04 PM PDT by thor76 (Vade retro, Draco! Crux sacra sit mihi lux! St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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