by SrDeniseSickinger | Mar 13, 2023 | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam!, Music, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
MARCH 13, 2023 What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Music for Mass MARK HAAS As human beings, we experience life through our senses. What we hear, taste, see, touch, and smell can have lasting effects on our psyche. The Catholic Mass should sound, taste, look, feel, and smell like something from another world, as it is from another world. The Mass is heaven coming down to touch earth. When you step off the street and into a Catholic Church, you should be transported to something far different from your ordinary life. Music for the liturgy should embody an other-worldly nature. It should be counter-cultural. In 2007, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops gave instruction to music directors: “The liturgy, though it must always be properly enculturated, must also be counter-cultural.” (Sing to the Lord, 12) Similarly, in 2019, Pope Francis spoke about liturgical music: “[Liturgical music] is not just any music, but holy music…Above all, clearly distinct and different from that used for other purposes.” Liturgical music, at its best, expresses a beauty that draws us out of our current time/space/culture/etc. This music can lift us toward God, Who is outside of time and space. Such music nudges the spirit to...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Dec 9, 2020 | Music
La Fundación Canto Católico presentó su nuevo trabajo musical que renueva el canto “Yo soy el camino firme” del sacerdote argentino, P. Lorenzo González. Source: Jóvenes católicos lanzan nueva versión del canto “Yo soy el camino...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Nov 4, 2020 | Music, St. Mary Mazzarello
Looking for Salesian Music on St. Mary Mazzarello? Or do you have some to share? You can also subsribe here: Source: Madre Mazzarello in Musica #cantisalesiani –...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 30, 2020 | Evangelization, Music
Source: Argentine – Évangéliser par la musique : bien au-delà des quatre...
by SrDeniseSickinger | Oct 30, 2020 | Evangelization, Music
Source: Argentina – Evangelizar con la música: más allá de las cuatro...