[The Great RJ]

I agree the Gregorian chant was dying out when Vatican II came along. Any good liturgical music development was thrown out and replaced with hootenanny music that a few in the clergy at the time seemed to think was trendy. If Vatican II had happened a decade later we might have had our ears burned by disco masses. The hootenanny crowd prevailed now for decades getting only worse. I was very amazed when I was in France in 1972 that local parish churches actually had decent music and incorporated the chant tradition. The French church apparently did not adopt the hippy hootenanny.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— If Vatican II had happened a decade later we might have had our ears burned by disco masses. The hootenanny crowd prevailed now for decades getting only worse. ——

The truth hurts.

[markomalley]

I agree the Gregorian chant was dying out when Vatican II came along. Any good liturgical music development was thrown out and replaced with hootenanny music that a few in the clergy at the time seemed to think was trendy. If Vatican II had happened a decade later we might have had our ears burned by disco masses. The hootenanny crowd prevailed now for decades getting only worse. I was very amazed when I was in France in 1972 that local parish churches actually had decent music and incorporated the chant tradition. The French church apparently did not adopt the hippy hootenanny.

Click on the images below for the videos.

Priests disco dancing at a Mass, Plobsheim, France, Pentecost 2009:

 

Easter Bunny Mass, Austria:

 

Or the devil and an angel in Würzburg:

 

And this seasonal thing in Rheinland-Pfalz:

 

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