From an outsider...
During the recent Apostolic Visit to the USA, the Washington Post published this interesting and perceptive article: Between Medieval And Folk, Two Mass Audiences. A sample:
Imagine a bizarro world where all the 25-year-olds want Mozart and all the 60-year-olds want adult-contemporary. The kids think the adults are too wild. The backlash against "Kumbaya Catholicism" has anyone under 40 allegedly clamoring for the Tridentine Mass in Latin, while the old folks are most sentimental about Casual Sunday (even more rockin', the Saturday vigil Mass), and still cling to what's evolved from the lite-rock guitar liturgies of the 1970s.It is significant that this should come from a secular source with no particular axe to grind in favour of traditional liturgy.
H/T Valle Adurni
2 comments:
If it's true that the under 40's want Mozart it certainly is not true that all the oldies want Rock'n Roll Masses. I'm more than qualified to give an opinion on this one. I'm a septuagenarian and I hate all such "Youf Masses". I avoid my own Parish at weekends for that very reason. I even go to the SSPX Masses on odd occasions where I join in the Masses from my Liber Usualis. I love singing Gregorian Chants and Masses.
JARay
I think I have found the best exposition and answer as to why liturgical abuses happen in the Novus Ordo:
Fr. Chad Ripperger FSSP - Tradition and the Liturgy
"The laity have tended to treat liturgical items with less reverence, because there is less mystery."
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