Hyperbole and hyperventilation aside, what do others think of this?

Edit: By the double H's, I refer to my own.

The archbishop and his music director are wonderful people, whom we can trust. Let us pray for their success.

Romantic Strings,

I've just watched the video clip at the Archdiocesan site. I hope the letter is different from the video clip. Here's why

1) "Hymns, hospitality, homily" allegedly addresses the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, but unless it strengthens our Catholic identity, this focus on hymns, etc, will merely weaken our apostolic work in the Archdiocese of Detroit.

2) Surely there are better ways to show the Church's mission other than girl altar boys, communion in the hand, a waved-around monstrance and bishops nearly dancing at one point?

After having read a portion of the document, I find this disturbing:

A spirit of innovation. The rapidly changing cultural situation in which we find ourselves requires that we think in new and creative ways. We need to be willing to jettison some old structures that no longer work and to experiment with new ones. As St. Paul tried different missionary strategies in different settings (cf. 1 Cor 9:19-23), so we need to be innovative, flexible, adaptable, unafraid to make mistakes, and willing to learn from the good ideas of others.

Here is a commentary on the new shield:
https://exarandorum.wordpress.com/2017/06/05/detroit-coat-of-arms-redesign-epic-fail/

Edited: to remove poorly conceived rant.

Edit:
I was ranting, so I will pray for the success of ventures like this, while also praying that the liturgy not be leashed to our evangelical imperative.

The rapidly changing cultural situation in which we find ourselves requires that we think in new and creative ways

An oblique reference to impending Muslim dominance of Detroit metro??

One of the things has helped cause the need for the gospel is goofy priests and prelates who haven't done a very good job of living it or proclaiming it. Everything bad can't be blamed on the culture. Many of the Catholic Church's wounds are entirely self inflicted.

I agree, but the culture seems an easy target to blame for everything. It played its part, but had willing fools helping it along.

There are some good points in that list: an emphasis on personal prayer seems to show an understanding that all involved should be seeking personal sanctification. A generous availability of Confession is certainly laudable.

The idea of "shallow entry points" could be something good: offering opportunities for uncertain people to attend without any embarrassment at their unfamiliarity. This suggestion illustrates a certain weakness in overly rigorous demands for "full conscious active participation".

Calls for "transformational Sunday experience" seem to leave out an understanding that the liturgy is worship directed to God, an act carried out for its own sake. Perhaps someone is taking ideas from Evangelical Protestants, who have the tradition of the "altar call" and other ways of appealing for conversion and repentance in their services.

I took "shallow entry points" to refer to non-liturgical parish activities.

Romantic Strings --

On what basis would you come to that conclusion?

Chris, I assumed that in part because it is what I first thought of, but also because only one of the points explicitly refers to Sunday, so the rest must be about other things (my line of thought went).

eft, I debated whether to link to the original, but I first heard about the initiative through the article to which I linked in the OP, and I figured/assumed (wrongly?) that others would go from there to the original (if they were so inclined).