Last post guys!!
Well, these past few posts have been mostly about current news that I am individually interested in. As a Catholic, I am in love with the traditions of the Church: the incense, the Latin, the art, music, and vestements.
I am especially passionate about music written for the Church during the Renaissance music, and gregorian Chant. This was the music that the Saints listened too, and has converted many people. Unfortunately, the past 50 years have been a great decline in the Church, with less priests, less nuns, less church-goers, and bad music from the 80s. There has to be a reform of the reform!! We need to bring tradition back, because right now, we aren't in good condition, and if we want to save souls, we have to bring beauty. As Pope Benedict XVI said,
Well, these past few posts have been mostly about current news that I am individually interested in. As a Catholic, I am in love with the traditions of the Church: the incense, the Latin, the art, music, and vestements.
I am especially passionate about music written for the Church during the Renaissance music, and gregorian Chant. This was the music that the Saints listened too, and has converted many people. Unfortunately, the past 50 years have been a great decline in the Church, with less priests, less nuns, less church-goers, and bad music from the 80s. There has to be a reform of the reform!! We need to bring tradition back, because right now, we aren't in good condition, and if we want to save souls, we have to bring beauty. As Pope Benedict XVI said,
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb.
If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies (and in all of her life) that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection? No. Christians must not be too easily satisfied. They must make their Church into a place where beauty–– and hence truth–– is at home. Without this the world will become the first circle of hell.
Cardinal Ratzinger (1993), Ratzinger Report
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