Posted on 12/18/2008 11:52:10 AM PST by GonzoII
I play in my church’s band. We rock the house with the likes of Lincoln Brewster, Third Day, Hillsong, et.al. I think Christian Rock is better today than anything in the “secular” world.
Good post. As an Evangelical Christian, I can say I experienced much of the same as Catholics and long for a return to humility and prayer during the worship service experience.
I must say that I also appreciate the modern praise and worship experience and feel that it was a necessary part of my faith journey. I still like it today, but don’t expect a deeper experience from it.
I don't know if Jeniffer Knapp fits that genre, but I always have her CDs on hand, love to listen to her while I'm driving.
Same here...last week I taught the worship team Lincoln's new tune...."The power of Your Name".
when I first got the CD that song stuck out and I know we had to play it...
Ping to read later - looks interesting.
what I see during Worship...when I get a deeper experience is when the songs are song TO Jesus and not just about Him...where you pour out your heart and soul to Him. seems to me when ever that is the case the Holy Spirit comes and evokes true worship
If the Latin mass was good enough for Jesus then its good enough for the rest of us ;)
“If the Latin mass was good enough for Jesus then its good enough for the rest of us ;)”
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Jesus spoke Aramaic??
Propably new some Latin though.
new=knew
Oh my Jesus... I want you for my BO-OY-friend.
not quite what I had in mind
The author seems to be addressing an audience that exists only in his own head. This is a tiresome literary style that he would do well to drop; instead, he could exercise the humility he professes to admire and simply state his opinions as such.
Really and truly, “lex orandi, lex credendi”: the way we pray (i.e. worship) profoundly affects the way we believe - even in those effects are incremental over time. To pretend as though the Church got it way, way wrong for nearly 2,000 years in composing and preserving Gregorian chant in her liturgy is foolish, imho. It is ridiculously cavalier to assume that we are sooooo much smarter than those who saw value in preserving the special and unique musical components of the Mass.
If you argue that “chant was fine for people back then because it was a different time, we need modern music to make worship more relevant,” I'd say your very confused. You see, chant has always been the purview of the Church and only the Church - it was, and always has been, intimately connected to and associated with divine worship. There has ALWAYS been secular music apart from the music of the Mass. Why we have become so arrogant so as to think that WE know better than the past two millenia of Church members and that we not only CAN but SHOULD mix and confuse sacred and secular music is beyond me...
Just my 2 cents. Tucker is ahead of his time if you smell where the liturgical wind is blowing in the Catholic Church...
My experience in my own large parish has been that o'er and o'er, it is younger singles and families who fight for a RESTORATION of the things sacred so callously disregarded and jettisoned by an aging clique who is SHOCKED that we want to change what they've implemented over the past decades (banal music is just one example). I think Tucker is under 40 himself.
Music! I was wondering what that awful racket was throughout the Mass. Now I know.
You must have been there the day the guitar played the “Santo” in 3/4 while the choir sang it in 4/4 and the drum played in 9/8. I think it was negative ions or something.
LOL!! The church's mission is based around the non-traditional, and it works for them. People do come in and don't like it and leave, and others stay, just like any other church. I stayed and decided to join the band. This church isn't for everybody, but it wasn't intended to be. BTW, I still go to my neighborhood catholic church. I like the traditional, too.
Merry Christmas!
Our favorite new song is “Today is the Day”. A great way to start service; very uplifting!
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