Title: "Traditional Catholic Hymns"?
Product review: Why is this "Traditional" CD full of songs produced in the last 40 years? (a mere second in the life of the Church, young grasshopper ;-) ) Frankly, liturgical music has been has been in a pretty sorry state for the last few decades. "On Eagle's Wings" isn't as theologically dubious as some of the other songs I've suffered through at Mass, but the words aren't exactly INSPIRED, and the melody sounds like a rather unsubtle score for a melodramatic moment in a movie. And why make the situation worse by rendering songs in jazz and rap styles, among others? It MATTERS what style music is played in, and twisting music like this just for the sake of novelty is not nessesarily good for worship. What's next, "Death Metal Mass, to be sung by KISS"?Anyway, I'm kinda sad they didn't put "Faith of Our Fathers" or "Holy God We Praise Thy Name" on here... Not to mention the Tantum Ergo, Pange Lingua, Vexilla Regis, etc. Sigh...
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