6.13.2008

I'm fed up with bad church music

I am now on Facebook (Long story, that will be another post). & this is a group I joined. The description is hilarious. I found myself nodding on many points (bold)

This group may be for you...

1. If you are of the opinion that Shine Jesus Shine, Here I Am, Lord, etc. are not the most beautiful church songs ever written.
2. If you think the "Mass of Creation" has had its day.

3. You actually kind of like the idea of singing chant and hymns. Gasp!

4. If you'd rather hear a pipe organ in church than a band or keyboard.

5. If you're dismayed that more than half of the music in many hymnals consists of uninspiring popular music.

6. If praise and worship music just doesn't do it for you.

7. If you think that "Polka Masses" and "Hip Hop Masses" are tacky.

8. If you get a kick out of a congregation trying to count all the sixteenth notes in "Be Not Afraid." I have someone in the CHOIR who does that!!

9. If you're a fan of the the St. Gregory Hymnal, the Hymnal 1940, the Hymnal 1982, "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Canticles," the Australian Hymnal, the Adoremus Hymnal, or the Liber Cantualis.

10. If you love singing the psalms to Gregorian psalm tones or Anglican chant.

11. If you know what a neume is and can name several types. & most of my friends do as well. :)

12. If you're fed up with cantors drowning out the congregation. Being a cantor myself, I am fed up with people keep complaining I am not loud enough!!

13. If you want to play the chord of death when people cut early during the last hymn. What is "the Chord of Death"?

14. If you want to play the chord of death when the congregation won't sing the last hymn.

15. If you want to play the chord of death because the congregation won't sing ANYTHING.

16. If you know that the official "hymnal" of the Roman Catholic church is the Graduale Romanum, and not Gather. Gather is OK

Join our crusade to stamp out bad church music! No, we don't hate new music. Just bad new music. Let's keep our church music triumphant, sacred, awe-inspiring, worthy, and God-centered.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hey ... what's your ID on Facebook? Can I add you to my friends list?