Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”
Church musicians carry “battle scars” of the profession. We can all tell “war stories.” But Thomas à Kempis writes in “The Imitation of Christ,” “…the measure of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity—adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.”
Does the Church really allow the Gospel to be replaced by excerpts from Machiavelli’s THE PRINCE? Seriously? Dr. Jeremy Sienkiewicz of Benedictine College chats about numerous topics, including the Mass Propers.
The papal teaching addresses precisely the question of criteria; it does not attempt to teach people how to listen to music or how to discriminate different qualities of music. If such discriminatory abilities are lacking, the papal teaching can have no meaning for us.
Did you know a former president of the Church Music Association of America has his own STAR on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? That’s correct! Just like Michael Jackson, Rex Harrison, Alfred Hitchcock, Harrison Ford, and all the rest.
“The emeritus pope, who made the unprecedented decision to step down from his role in February, will now live in a converted monastery near current Pope Francis.” — New York Daily News
The temporal reality of the liturgy that cannot be bound by recordings.
