Posted on 01/19/2023 3:22:28 PM PST by ebb tide
WASHINGTON — Catholic poets, composers, and songwriters are invited to participate in a competition in which the winning piece could be performed before 80,000 people at the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis is sponsoring a Eucharistic Revival musical competition in an effort to renew zeal for the Eucharist.
The musical competition is one facet of the multiyear National Eucharistic Revival launched on June 19, 2022 — the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, or Corpus Christi. The revival’s mission is to “renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the holy Eucharist,” as stated on the initiative’s website.
After a 2019 Pew survey revealed that only 31% of Catholics believe in a basic tenet of their faith — that the body and blood of Christ are truly, really, and substantially present in the Eucharist — the U.S. bishops decided to take action. In 2021, at their annual fall meeting, they voted to embark on a national eucharistic revival to restore and promote an understanding of and devotion to the Eucharist.
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They lifted the Sunday Mass obligation for over a year due to Fauci's Wuflu scamdemic, they let laypersons pass out Holy Communion like cookies to people in the paw and on the hoof. And now they follow an apostate pope and forbid the Traditional Latin Mass; and they expect a "musical contest" to restore belief in the Real Presence?
Ping
I enjoyed latin mass. I’m not Catholic, but I used to keep up with my Latin that way. Besides Caesar’s Gallic Wars in latin, with the facing page in English I also keep a Wheelocks around and I have a Latin Vulgate around here somewhere. Sadly it’s been years since I’ve kept up my familiarization.
I cringe to think of what will win. Who are the judges?
As a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic, I wouldn’t line the bottom of a bird cage with the National Catholic Register
Are you confusing the National Catholic Register with the National Catholic Reporter?
I share your fears.
I guess all these hymns, even though they worked fine in the preconiliar Church in the Traditional Latin Masses, won’t work in VC II’s Newchurch:
O Salutaris Hostia
Tantum Ergo
Panis Angelicus
O Lord I Am Not Worthy
How about some criteria: based on an existing plainchant melody, texts already approved by the Church (Scripture or otherwise), etc., contest judges who love the Catholic sacred music tradition.
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