The children, they don\u2019t know if the music you are giving them is old music or new music or folks music or chanting from the medieval monks. They don\u2019t know, so why not give them something beautiful? So I am asking my cousins who like the old fat people singing and they tell me, \u201cMantilla you have to give the young people the music they like!\u201d So I say, \u201cBut they don\u2019t like this music! They are sitting there looking embarrassed that their old fat people are singing protest songs about \u2018making a difference.\u2019 I think what you mean when you say, \u2018Give the young people the music they like\u2019 is really saying \u2018We will give the young people the music we like to think that they like but it is really the music us old fat people like.\u2019<\/p>\n
Look hon. I think this is not so smart. Music is not young or old. Music is good or bad. Church music is not young or old, it is sacred music or not sacred music. Too much of this music is not sacred. It\u2019s like something from a Broadway musical or maybe a not so good pop music group. It\u2019s like my vestments hon. We don\u2019t make vestments out of tin foil and pipe cleaners and put flashing lights and a battery pack in it for the priest to try to make it cool for young people. We just make good vestments out of good materials with good craftsmanship and then the young people like them and the old people like them. You know what I mean hon? It\u2019s the same with everything. So since that time in America I am all the time humming these chants from that monastery called Dizzy and now I am realizing what a chant does. It gets into your mind and your soul and before long it is helping you pray more. You know what I mean? Maybe that happens too with the other kind of music; it\u2019s a tune that sticks in your head, but do you really want to be singing some marshmallow kind of song all day long about Jesus walking on the beach and making footprints? I don\u2019t think so hon.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The children, they don\u2019t know if the music you are giving them is old music or new music or folks music or chanting from the medieval monks. They don\u2019t know, so why not give them something beautiful? So I am asking my cousins who like the old fat people singing and they tell me, \u201cMantilla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6625","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n