tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post6417720273870665883..comments2024-03-18T09:28:08.708-04:00Comments on Maior autem his est caritas: Missa in cantuFr. Gaurav Shroff http://www.blogger.com/profile/04964314266441708310noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-87425999036358175102007-10-22T16:48:00.000-04:002007-10-22T16:48:00.000-04:00Sherry,There are over 19,000 Catholic parishes in ...Sherry,<BR/><BR/>There are over 19,000 Catholic parishes in the 195 dioceses in the U.S. Are you conversant with all of them? Have you visited even a fraction of them? The 300 parishes you say you've visisted is not many given the total number. Maybe you're the one who's not the expert.<BR/><BR/>ColleenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-23212254197168754682007-10-22T15:12:00.000-04:002007-10-22T15:12:00.000-04:00Sherry - If in all your travels you have seen none...Sherry - <BR/><BR/>If in all your travels you have seen none of these problems... wonderful!<BR/><BR/>However, I know for a FACT that some of these things are occurring right here in Chicago. <BR/><BR/>Next time you come to town I can bring you to a parish with a 30% chance of pottery vessels, and a 0% chance of silver or gold (the best they do is crystal - even though I know they have proper Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-31599395276658188842007-10-22T12:49:00.000-04:002007-10-22T12:49:00.000-04:00I love the Eastern Catholic liturgies, I love chan...I love the Eastern Catholic liturgies, I love chant, I have a great affinity for our traditional rites. I love Mass with a big choir dwarfed by an even larger organ. I also love a lot of contemporary liturgical music, pianos and all.<BR/><BR/>But all of these forms can used to ill effect, and introducing a chant mass is not a sure way to bring greater reverence to liturgy. In fact, I think Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718425732729377189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-72556526763396993732007-10-22T10:54:00.000-04:002007-10-22T10:54:00.000-04:00Jeffrey:I have *never*, in my life, said, thought,...Jeffrey:<BR/><BR/>I have *never*, in my life, said, thought, or felt that chant doesn't belong in the Roman Rite. I certainly did not do so in my comments here. <BR/><BR/>I'm personally just fine with chant (not that my personal opinion matters much but everyone assumes that because I object to the *kind of discourse* going on here that I hate chant when nothing could be further from the truth) Sherry Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428918256547725187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-46646062690508400972007-10-21T15:56:00.000-04:002007-10-21T15:56:00.000-04:00These comments of mine were prefaced with the rema...These comments of mine were prefaced with the remark that here is a description of the modal parish. What this means is that it doesn't describe one parish in particular but samples a wide range of parishes and gathers the problem areas into a single case for descriptive purpses, and hence it is modal. In addition, I was merely reporting what young priests and pastors themselves are saying about Jeffrey Tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03827545417923351538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-55096580189948912312007-10-21T15:42:00.000-04:002007-10-21T15:42:00.000-04:00Sherry:You have a huge gap in your understanding o...Sherry:<BR/><BR/>You have a huge gap in your understanding of Catholicism and liturgy in general if you equate chanting the liturgy with aesthetics.<BR/><BR/>If you look at the ancient rites of the East, still alive today, those liturgies are chanted liturgies. Chant is the original mode of Judeo-Christian prayer - Gregorian chant is the primary Roman/Western mode of that, but there are other Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-51116155280252338012007-10-21T00:56:00.000-04:002007-10-21T00:56:00.000-04:00Hi Gashwin:I have no problems at all with people w...Hi Gashwin:<BR/><BR/>I have no problems at all with people who love the traditional Mass. I know that many young adults feel as you do. Although as you point out, only 20% of Gen X/Yers are attending Mass at all. <BR/><BR/>But a longing for the Traditional Mass is a very different thing from scornful derision aimed at millions of non Anglo,non-high culture Catholics who have no part in the Sherry Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428918256547725187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-65781824429400005842007-10-20T22:40:00.000-04:002007-10-20T22:40:00.000-04:00Sherry, Thanks for your response, your impassioned...Sherry, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your response, your impassioned response! <BR/><BR/>I'm trying to identify what it is about the post that I found interesting: I guess when I heard "not attend daily Mass/do spiritual reading" I translated that to what is my sense of where our weakness is -- what y'all call intentionality -- fostering an intentional commitment to Christ, to discipleship, a life of Fr. Gaurav Shroff https://www.blogger.com/profile/04964314266441708310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-54826319068128086262007-10-20T22:18:00.000-04:002007-10-20T22:18:00.000-04:00Gashwin:It just now occurred to be that you might ...Gashwin:<BR/><BR/>It just now occurred to be that you might think that my frustration is with you. Not at all! It's with the original post - not with you.Sherry Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428918256547725187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17309896.post-2480074663915268092007-10-20T21:08:00.000-04:002007-10-20T21:08:00.000-04:00Gashwin:I’m sorry but as someone who has attended ...Gashwin:<BR/><BR/>I’m sorry but as someone who has attended Mass in hundreds of parishes all over the world, I have to say that this sneering depiction of universal parish life is simply not true. It is defaming the attitudes and actions of innumerable priests and parishioners in a manner that is completely contrary to both truth and charity.<BR/><BR/>If our situation were anything like this, I Sherry Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428918256547725187noreply@blogger.com