We\u2019re trying something new and different at Our Lady of the Rosary. I\u2019m rather tired of the \u201cFormal-Informal\u201d divide in liturgical circles. It seems there are two styles\u2013Happy Clappy Campfire Liturgy or Strict and Formal Solemn High Maahhss\u201d.<\/p>\n
While I\u2019m temperamentally biased toward the second I can see that there are lots of Catholics who are turned off by it and tootle off to the Campfire Songs and homely homilies because, while they don\u2019t like that too much, it\u2019s better than the Palestrina and Pergolesi and Mozart and Monteverdi with which they do not connect, and which they perceive to be highbrow and hifalutin.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019ve been wondering why there can\u2019t be a middle way. Why there can\u2019t be good music that is reverent, simple and accessible to all without being tacky, trite and sentimental?<\/p>\n
I have been very much influenced by monastic spirituality so we\u2019ve started a 5:00pm Mass on Sundays which I call \u2018contemporary contemplative\u2019. The Mass is said very simply and reverently with much use of silence and very simple chant\u2013some Taize music and simple, old fashioned American gospel tunes, simple Anglican hymns as well as some 16th century English liturgical music and Gregorian chant.\n
We\u2019ll see how it goes. If you\u2019re in the Greenville area, come by some Sunday at 5:00 and see what you think.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019re trying something new and different at Our Lady of the Rosary. I\u2019m rather tired of the \u201cFormal-Informal\u201d divide in liturgical circles. It seems there are two styles\u2013Happy Clappy Campfire Liturgy or Strict and Formal Solemn High Maahhss\u201d. While I\u2019m temperamentally biased toward the second I can see that there are lots of Catholics who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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