Sitting in a living room with ten other people, worshiping with nothing but the human voice, gave me a real understanding of how our music can be “on earth as it is in heaven.” I started to realize how much more prayerful, how much more natural, this approach to music was than the over-produced concert music of contemporary Catholicism.
Posts Tagged Propers
This is clearly an editorial oddity – perhaps produced after a heavy Roman lunch?
You know about the hymns vs. propers debate. As rich as the Latin propers (introit, gradual, etc.) are, they’re seemingly too difficult and inaccessible for most people, as the leaders of the liturgical movement in Europe had already started to conclude by the 1930s. Here’s what we’ve trying at St. John’s Abbey for the introit and communio when we don’t do the chant propers.
The liturgical function of the proper chants is to aid meditation upon scriptural texts. When the chants are sung in Latin, they can serve this function for only a few. –Bruce. E. Ford