[Salvation]

This is good to hear!!

Let's get back to the sacred music!!

[marshmallow]

It should have been obvious on its face, but if electric guitars and a rhythm section are the "selling points" which induce people to come to Church, then the Mass has already been reduced to an adrenaline rush. Yet another. And like any adrenaline rush, it eventually fades after a few repetitions, and then needs to be replaced by the latest "fun thing".

Traditional Catholic liturgy is God-centered. Deriving personal enjoyment is not part of the equation. The Mass is not about you.

Once the "feel good" factor enters in, and the liturgy is stripped of the sacred, the battle is already lost. As history has shown. Every dipsy, frivolous gimmick has been tried with the liturgy. Still, they won't come. On the contrary. They've left in droves.

[dangus]

Really strange note: It seems all the charismatic Catholic groups in the DC area are incorporating Latin Hymns and Eucharistic adoration...

[Steve0113]

Placemark.

[Cookie123]

Sounds wonderful, but many parishes do not have the facilities to have the Gregorian-chant type of traditional music. Nor do they have the money to pay professionally trained church musicians. They have one or two piano players and a couple of guitar players, and that's about the only music these people know how to do. It's either that or nothing. Since it's been that way for years now, so many Catholics have become used to it, especially the young people. About the only people you hear complaining are the old-timers.

[BlessedBeGod]

Nice to know it's not just me. I refuse to sing the pop crap during Mass.