Hildegard de Bingen "Les Vêpres à Marie" [Ensemble Organum]

[@Serghey_83]

Естественная среда

[@Serghey_83]

Акустика собора

[@CeOria]

Why is it so hard to say God? "Universe", "Cosmos", "A Spirit", "A Will". Are you kidding? If you are performing/recording sacred music, especially of the Catholic Church, you have to be able to turn your aspect to God. All of this music was written for the Catholic liturgy to worship the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If this makes you uncomfortable, then don't do it. There is plenty of music out there that is not sacred, turn your secularist gaze upon that instead.

[@Facconti]

He is speaking about the cosmic dimension of the liturgy in general as a means to sacralize time.

[@CeOria]

@@Facconti Nope. There is no "cosmic" dimension of the Liturgy. There is only the dimension of the Almighty Father, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Ya dig? I will not tolerate secular language to describe my faith and my religion. The Church and it's liturgy are sacred. If you can't handle even saying the word "God" then perhaps you need to stay clear of sacred music. And to your point of "as a means to sacralize time", by all means you can do this by merely saying Our Lord's name, so why doesn't the director do this? What is he afraid of? What is it about my faith and it's language that makes him so uncomfortable? (Edit: or perhaps his publisher is the one who is uncomfortable?)

[@Facconti]

@@CeOria Read Joseph Ratzinger's "The Spirit of the Liturgy." Perhaps you will trust more the future Benedict XVI than me, which is fine.

[@CeOria]

@@Facconti Poor Ratzinger was trying to link ancient pagan cult worship to contemporary religious expression and now people think this gives them permission to nix God from the equation. tsk tsk. I read it, but fear you may have misinterpreted it. Either way, it still does not answer my question: why can't the narrator say "God"? Why must he use euphemisms? Ratzinger was very liberal with the word "God" in his book. By all means reply again, but you're not getting anywhere.

[@EstaraTshirai]

@@CeOria Or conversely, why must the narrator say "God" constantly for you to understand that God is inherent to the conversation? That's awfully Protestant of you.