But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.
From Richard Morris
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
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