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Despite my "liberal" tendencies I am a fan of the older style Masses. I love simple organ played traditional hymns. There is a beauty way beyond modern musical ministry. And I actually have nostalgia for the kneeling at the front rail to receive communion. It was a privilege to attend such Masses. I feel sorry for people who haven't experienced them.
 

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Despite my "liberal" tendencies I am a fan of the older style Masses. I love simple organ played traditional hymns. There is a beauty way beyond modern musical ministry. And I actually have nostalgia for the kneeling at the front rail to receive communion. It was a privilege to attend such Masses. I feel sorry for people who haven't experienced them.
There are many ways to worship God and He looks on the heart when we worship. I have a Pentecostal background but I also love the traditional hymns. It is a pity that many groups have turned away from them and the message that they bring.
 
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There are many ways to worship God and He looks on the heart when we worship. I have a Pentecostal background but I also love the traditional hymns. It is a pity that many groups have turned away from them and the message that they bring.
Music at Mass is important for me. It can set a very reverent, mystical tone and becomes much easier to focus on worship. Some modern music groups at Mass I find distasteful and brings the focus on them instead of God.
 
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Music at Mass is important for me. It can set a very reverent, mystical tone and becomes much easier to focus on worship. Some modern music groups at Mass I find distasteful and brings the focus on them instead of God.
I agree. Many of the modern Charismatic songs do the same. They shift the emphasis of worship away from God and Christ, to what the person is sensing and feeling. Instead of singing, "O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise", they are singing, "I feel so wonderful as I worship you" or similar. It seems that the modern songs are trying to bring on some emotional feeling, and I am sure that "worship times" in churches are just to hype people up to create some sort of atmosphere, when in reality, because folks are filled with the Spirit, they bring the atmosphere in with them. In fact, Spirit-filled folk in church are the atmosphere, whether it is in a Pentecostal service or a Catholic Mass.
 
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@bettercallpaul On a natural level, -I'm sure you know quite well, what of the Traditional Catholic liturgy, appeals to me on a supernatural level, so I won't lecture you on that.- one of the things I really like about traditional liturgical music is that it's organic. The use of guitars and drums gives the mass a mechanical quality. Society in general also has this overly mechanical, un-organic quality to it.

That's one the reasons why I believe that devotion to Our Lady is so important in this day and age. Our Lady points to the importance of the organic and feminine, in contrast with this age's mechanical and hyper-masculine feel. I find it particularly interesting, that in Our Lady's apparition at Fatima, only the girls could hear Our Lady speak. St. Francisco, the boy, couldn't hear Our Lady, and had to have the message relied to him from the girls.
 
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I am curious, what are those liberal tendencies?
Are you just the same as conservatives, or are you really different?
Well maybe I should choose my words carefully eh.. :)
I question absolutes such as abortion in every single case. The idea of female priests doesn't really bother me to be honest but I wont be promoting it. And I think if homosexuality is so wrong, then there a lot of people not going to Heaven.
Is that a shocking enough post for this sub-forum? :)
 
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Well maybe I should choose my words carefully eh.. :)
I question absolutes such as abortion in every single case. The idea of female priests doesn't really bother me to be honest but I wont be promoting it. And I think if homosexuality is so wrong, then there a lot of people not going to Heaven.
Is that a shocking enough post for this sub-forum? :)

A lot of people are not going to heaven
Most people are not going to heaven
Most Christians are not going to heaven
 
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