I agree Simfan on the music. I wish they'd throw out pretty much all of the music written since 1900. Sorry Marty Haugen your music isn't that good. It's just boring and doesn't really show the sort of hunger, for lack of a better word, the situation calls for. I do prefer the English translations of the old Latin hymns to the original Latin for the most part but both can coexist.
My church in Cleveland likes to pull out the occasional Gregorian chant, particularly during Lent, and they tend to be very good songs. There's a reason we kept them around for 800 years. Unfortunately they also mix in some awful contemporary songs. I remember one Sunday they had Attende Domine (one of my favorite religious songs) at Communion and their recessional hymn was Somebody's Knockin' At Your Door. Really? I mean, that one has hand motions. I have to fight back the urge to laugh at the fact that we're actually singing it.
That being said, I've been to Latin Mass before and I'm rather convinced restoring that everywhere's not the answer either.
I'd have to agree with what's being said here, though I'm not familiar with Gregorian chants and stuff written in the 1490's. Yes, I've sung "Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door" and enjoyed it. In 4th grade. My Dad was the organist for my church and yes he played it, for the elementary kids. He himself preferred older music, and loved working in minor key (so I'm told. I wouldn't have known back then). Nowadays? The organist we have now is into all this crap written from around the 2000's and a couple of decades earlier and that's it. Plus, he loves major key. There's "Go Make a Difference" which has people clapping and sh**t and I always think "We're Catholics. We don't sway to our music." But no one ever listens to my private thoughts. There is some good stuff I appreciate, but I myself don't often pay attention to the year something's made. I'll have to investigate a church with more old fashioned tastes to see what y'all are talking about. I've had enough of this enthusiastic, lovey dovey music.
And of course, this needs mention:
And that is all that matters.
and maybe this too:
... Catholics who oppose pedophilia "pop up every now and then" ?
