Is there anything to prevent you from remaining after Mass to silently comunicate with God?
How about a little quiet, so people can have a conversation with their Lord?
The Apocalypse of Saint John the Apostle
Chapter 14
Of the Lamb and of the virgins that follow him. Of the judgments that shall fall upon the wicked.
1 And I beheld: and lo a Lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.
2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters and as the voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps.
*sounds to me that God might enjoy the singing ...
God might also enjoy the quiet. He also might enjoy The Communion with him to not have to wait, and perhaps lose a bit of saliency by waiting until after the Mass is completed. You don't know God's mind, and I don't either, so my guess is as bound to be correct as yours. And in light of that, I will seek the quiet.
"Isn't singing a hymn to God a way of conversing with God?"
For many, it is not a satisfactory way, or is a much less satisfactory way than prayer or silent contemplation.
Why do you insist on forcing your tastes on us all?
"And the voice which I heard was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps."
You're comparing the voice of God and the Holy Chorus of Angels with the tripe that is (poorly) sung in Catholic Churches today?
"*sounds to me that God might enjoy the singing ..."
And that sounds like anthropomorphism to me. I don't see any reason to suppose that God has bad taste.
Given that God can produce music infinitely superior to anything man might devise, it seems to me that the only thing that might please him about our music would be that we were offering our best; nothing I've heard in Church recently comes close to fulfilling that condition.
"*sounds to me that God might enjoy the singing ..."
Yes, the Great C minor Mass of Mozart or even (if you were lucky) either Beethoven's Mass in C or Missa Solemnis.
Was wondering how the discussion got sidetracked from shaking hands at Mass to singing.
In post 14 bornacatholic reports on some questionable apocolyptic writing on Angels singing, and that is supposed to end all discussion on singing at Mass, and I assume, shaking hands?? Both nice ploys to ignore the Eucharist and the sacrifice. Sounds like a nice protestant grip and grin meeting.