CharlesW

P&W Music
I have read that one of the reasons for the giant thurible at the destination of the St. James pilgrimage is to disguise the smell of sweaty hikers. The choice organs being burned in many Catholic churches are the pounds of flesh extorted from t…

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P&W Music
Incense was also used in earlier times to hide body odors. They weren't keen on bathing after the fall of Rome. Before Rome, it probably wasn't much different.

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P&W Music
(This isn't a caricature; I've seen this with my own eyes on more than one occasion.) Oh, I have seen it, too. The parish where I worked for 20 years had one "contemporary" mass on Sunday afternoons. The musicians were such an…

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Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
I have no problem agreeing that Vatican II had the authority to call for revisions in the liturgy. Unfortunately, the reform was put in the hands of incompetents who were also ideologues with their own agendas. Add to that, it was supervised by a …

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P&W Music
One of the biggest problems I have with P&W music at mass is rather simple. The "performers" are often terrible musicians. What talent they think they have, they have done nothing to develop. Even if you can tolerate the music you c…

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Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
There are limits to papal authority but in practice, he can do pretty much what the bishops allow him to get away with. In reality, westerners have vested too much in that office and it seems to me, did not foresee the limits to which abuses of aut…

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Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
I would think anything by Mozart in E-flat would be more masonic than checkerboard floor tiles. Never heard about the floor tiles before.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
Considering that we have people saying the Pope can do anything, behave like a despot, and we have to follow his every whim. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint, he has the power and there are no substantial leaders with the w…

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
I must admit all of this is Jesuitical to the core. I would say, SS, that you are correct. Coming from the east, I tend to take popes with a grain of salt. They come, they go, blessed be the name of the Lord. Easterners have, for the most part, …

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Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
As a Byzantine, I have no dogs in this fight. However, if Pope Francis follows through on this - who knows what the next pope will do - the Trads don't have sufficient numbers to sway the church to their way of worshipping. It looks to me lik…

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Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
it appears that there's room for improved people skills on both sides. Definitely agreed on that.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
I have wondered about forbidding the use of parochial churches. If the Vatican follows through on that, many, maybe most TLM groups will have to find other quarters.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
And the people of God sang: We are many parts, One screwed up body....

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Responsa ad Dubia concerning Traditionis Custodes
Good or bad, it can't be argued that the church has not followed through with what the council actually called for liturgically. If you read the council documents on liturgy and music, it is abundantly clear those documents are not followed or…

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P&W Music
This is not unexpected since I thought the groundwork was being laid to suppress the 1962 missal. In practice, some bishops will not do it and, unfortunately, many will suppress it. It's back to the way things were before Benedict. I am no p…

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
Stimson, I think the church has put emphasis in the wrong place since Vatican II. It became obsessed with bringing the church into the modern world. It should have put the emphasis on bringing the modern world into the church and transforming it.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Paris Notre Dame fire
I am a great fan of French religious art, buildings, organs, and music. I would hate to see that cathedral wrecked by designers. But I wonder how much real faith is left there, at least in the major cities. A friend who travelled much to Europe t…

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
But Francis, you’re right about the boiling pot; the difference is, by the time we get to this point, the pot has already boiled. Long before this point the music director will have been fired to restore some measure of peace in the parish. It ta…

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
I would think that many view hymns as Protestant because we use so many of them and they are attributed to Protestant writers. The Divine Office has fallen into such disuse that many if not most have never heard Office hymns. This is sad.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
Just messing with you, Chris. Nothing serious.

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P&W Music
Isn't WLP now part of GIA? I wondered if that would make a difference.

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P&W Music
Chris, never-the-less is an older form used until the shorter Oxford dictionary decided it would slash hypens. I thought you loved being archaic.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
(I'm probably bringing nothing new to the table here.) Good point, never-the-less. Much of that music is not "singable" for amateurs.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Communion Chant PLUS Hymn
I did communion chants for years then followed with a hymn.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
I would say, coming from an eastern perspective, that although I worked 20+ years in Catholic music as an organist/director, I may have different views than a number of Roman Rite Catholics. For us, there is a barrier between the secular world and …

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
Seems like every year the song, "Mary Did You Know," rears its head. Would you call that P&W? I called it heretical.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
P&W Music
P&W typical lyrics. Pie in the sky for me, for you Pie in the sky for me. Whenever I die, There's pie in the sky. Pie in the sky for me, for you. I first heard P&W when it appeared in the evangelical Protestant churches. If it floats…

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Recorded music before Mass
I had bell bottoms and platforms when they were fashionable in the seventies. Then we had disco, pantsuits, polyester, etc. Church music, though, went into a decline in the late sixties. The problem with church music is that it didn't get an…

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
Recorded music before Mass
Back in my teaching days, I usually wore earplugs to any kiddie concerts or programs. Also, when there was hippie music at the school mass.

Comment by CharlesW December 2021 permalink
A question about which antiphon to use when a first class feast is a Marian feast in Advent
When he said "office puzzle" I thought we were going to be treated to tales of a steamy office romance. Now that is puzzling.

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