Oh, netmilsmom, I am SO with you. I hate the ditties — esp the lilting tune they use with ‘Christ has died (chachacha).’ Ditch the ditties; there is plenty of wonderful, reverential, worshipful music available in the form of hymns.
Which is why we go to the 7:30 mass, where there is NO music. (I hear that a lot of other musicians are at the no-music services, too...).
That’s what most Choir Directors don’t understand.
We want the reverence that makes us Catholic.
Most of us would rather have no music at all than the “innovations”. There is comfort in repetition. Watch an EWTN mass and listen to their choir. It’s not about them.