re: Songs from the red or green old school books at church is better than the songs

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Catholic, I have a further complaint. These foreign, heavy, thick-accented priests make tuning in exceedingly difficult. I mean, would it kill the Diocese to maybe pay for a good dialect coach for some of these dudes? I’m sure they spend a lot of time working on these homilies… if they want literally ANYONE to listen past a few sentences, I think speaking just a smidge more understandably would be more paramount.

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Totally agree. Every once in a while we get the Indian priest and it’s difficult to understand.

Growing up in MS our priest was from Dublin so he had a thick Irish accent which made for a great mass at a Mississippi Catholic Church

although our local mainline Protestant church has revamped the hymnal in recent years to include “modern” music, we still sing a lot of the traditional stuff

yesterday we had a brass quintet, sang a hymn that was written in 1784, had our best soprano sing and offertory composed by Mozart, and closed with the “Hallelujah” from Beethoven’s Mount of Olives

of course it helps when your musical director is an extremely talented and dedicated classically trained pianist/organist/conductor who has been part of the church for 49 years

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Songs from the red or green old school books at church is better than the songs The church band plays

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Here is an oldie. It has been over 40 years since I have heard this one song at mass.

Our church used to have an early contemporary service with the band and a traditional late morning service with the choir & hymns. Attendance for both fell off after Covid, and then the riff in the Methodist Church split/drama. Now it's combined service in the middle morning. The band plays the first half of the service, then the choir comes in during "the children's moment" and there's hymns the rest of the way. I'm a traditional hymns person too. I do like some of the newer songs though. It's a good mix. I just wish you didn't have to standup for about 20min straight while the band plays. These dress shoes hurt my back

he lays down a good Homily every day
—Hep and reverent at the same time. Kudos

There’s always the church band guy that thinks he’s a whole lot better singer than he really is.

This combined with people judging me for my nice fishing shirt and the old lady 3-4 words behind in reciting prayers are the main reason I just worship from home.

Oh just wait until you see the Praise dancing.

Yeah, I grew up in the 70s and 80s with this crap church music. Bring back the Sacred Music and ban the My Little Pony chorus'

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Irony is that the young people don’t want that music either. Younger generation seems to like the more traditional music as well.

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i'm 41 and remember the praise/hymn music battles of the 80s and 90s.

i never thought i'd say this considering my opinions as as a teenager, but at this point in life, I'd prefer 80/20 hymn/praise. Even then, most of my appreciation of praise is pre 2010 or so.

I can't keep up with all the new music that elevation/hillsong/bethel comes out with. Plus, most of their theology is pretty dicey, yet I hear it in reformed conservative churches all the time.


ETA: my church doesn't sing anything i have an overt theological bent against, but if you listen to what most of the pastors are saying, it's feel good prosperity gospel stuff. The dude from Elevation is wildly talented as a musician and songwriter. I will say that.