Sacred Music Vs. Secular Music In The Mass

[mortify]

[quote name='Cam42' timestamp='1308615837' post='2256578']
I agree completely. Now how do we get the meaning of the Sacred back?
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That is a tremendous task, but it involves at least two key things. Restoring Catholic Liturgy and spirituality is certainly the first step. If we don't worship with the concept of Sacredness, how can we expect it to believed? For this, I believe the traditional Latin mass should be restored as the ordinary form, albeit not identical to the so called Tridentine rite. I think the original aims of the liturgical movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were headed in the right direction before they spun out of control. Some prudent changes guided by sound theology and development may be called for.

Secondly, it involves an interior transformation. The average person is wholly unaware that we live in a system with its own dogmas and ideologies. A system governed by what has been occasionally called Organized Naturalism. Those of us living in the contemporary West possess a modern mindset that needs to be transformed into a Catholic one. It entails much learning, meditation, prayer, and a solid interior life. We really have to pray that we will even understand a concept such as "Spirit," let alone Sacredness.

Perhaps I should add a third thing, and this is really the most important. It will require oceans of graces from God, and alot of intercesion on our behalf from the Virgin Mary and countless Saints.

But God knows best.

Edited June 21, 2011 by mortify

[Cam42]

[quote name='mortify' timestamp='1308617271' post='2256593']
That is a tremendous task, but it involves at least two key things. Restoring Catholic Liturgy and spirituality is certainly the first step. If we don't worship with the concept of Sacredness, how can we expect it to believed? For this, I believe the traditional Latin mass should be restored as the ordinary form, albeit not identical to the so called Tridentine rite. I think the original aims of the liturgical movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were headed in the right direction before they spun out of control. Some prudent changes guided by sound theology and development may be called for.

Secondly, it involves an interior transformation. The average person is wholly unaware that we live in a system with its own dogmas and ideologies. A system governed by what has been occasionally called Organized Naturalism. Those of us living in the contemporary West possess a modern mindset that needs to be transformed into a Catholic one. It entails much learning, meditation, prayer, and a solid interior life. We really have to pray that we will even understand a concept such as "Spirit," let alone Sacredness.

Perhaps I should add a third thing, and this is really the most important. It will require oceans of graces from God, and alot of intercesion on our behalf from the Virgin Mary and countless Saints.

But God knows best.
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The Church has done it before...I'm sure she'll do it again....but I agree with you more or less....

I think that the only changes that are warranted in the Traditional Latin Mass is an adjustment of the calendar to include those saints who have been canonized since the calendar change in the 1960s. We have a lot more saints and that has always been a practice.

While I agree with a lot of the changes that came from the liturgical movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was an underlying sense of liberal sensibilities when it came to the Mass. I'm not saying that it is the exact same thing as the political liberals that we have today, but it is a concern, as the Church is not liberal in her views toward the Sacraments. She never has been. Development has always been done in a conservative manner, by that I mean that she relies on tradition, not innovation to illuminate the development of the Mass. At no time has any adjustment of the Traditional Latin Mass since the time of Pius V been an innovative process. The same should apply in the here and now.

[Chrysophylax]

[size="3"]I agree that we need to add in our new saints to the calendar! [/size]