The Revival of Sacred Music: How Ancient Melodies Inspire Faith Today

[@hotspot930]

We need to revive the Traditional Latin Mass and singing the Sacred Music in all Catholic Churches around the world.

[@EB-dm9fw]

I wish they bring it back 🙏🏽

[@firebearfl643]

I agree 100% .

[@CatholicSpartan]

An organ pumping music brings me closer to God than a guitar ever does. We need traditional music again, we don't need to sound like protestants just because it's easier. I'm in my 30s and everyone my age and younger agrees with me. That and alter rails are how you get the younger generations believing in the true presence of Christ in the eucharist.

[@frankcamaj1865]

It takes proper teaching - Floriani and the Gregorian chant academy have great tutorials. Lots of material here on KZbin. Once the church understands the lyrics it’s easier to implement. I’ve introduced Gregorian Chant to non-Catholics, even they recognize the inherent beauty and want to know more. In terms of the general church audience, I see the youth really enjoy it and want it in mass - brings out more prayerful atmosphere, compared to some of the other more modern music (which often can sound jarring). The flowing aspect of Gregorian chant is almost therapeutic and conclusive to prayer.

[@DoctorDewgong]

There needs to be a clear and intentional push for Gregorian chant in the Church. It's very simple, very profound, and literally perfectly suited to the liturgy. Polyphony is nice, but it's secondary

[@williamj-t2n]

Borromeo was planning to ban polyphony until he heard Palestrina’s magnificent Missa Papa Marcelli. Divine intervention?

[@FlorianiSacredMusic]

Make chant great again.

[@IvanColombia]

Sacred music is that,sacred!! It gets me closer to the Lord’s presence and it is such a divine experience, that at the same time is indescribable. Love Gregorian chants🙏🙏

[@jacksoncastelino04]

Please Pray for The Restoration of Sacred Gregorian Chants during Divine Liturgy

[@EB-dm9fw]

Every Sunday I play it at my house with lit candle.

[@jamesdewanca]

Beauty converts even the most hardened souls. Music is perhaps the most under utilized catechetical efforts

[@meanchoolee5845]

Tradition is beautiful

[@padreaddoloratomaria2972]

EVERYBODY knows SACRED MUSIC BASED ON TRADITION IS THE WAY...WE PATIENTLY~WORKINGLY AWAIT THE TRIUMPH OF THE IMMACULATE!!!

[@bluemango8689]

I'm awaiting too, but I'm afraid it's not coming soon enough

[@marytygett4189]

Incredibly beautiful and always will be 🥰❤️‍🔥🙏

[@casanova07scrr]

This very week I was talking to my brother about the dissapearance of the Latin SACRED Chants in our country, Puerto Rico. We rarely hear not even the Kirie in the Liturgy... We need to rescue this treasure... What a great contribution you are doing with this Group. This Dominican Priest is doing a great endevour too indeed!!

[@padreaddoloratomaria2972]

Chesterton said it well: TRADITION or FASHION? I CHOOSE TRADITION!!!

[@firebearfl643]

I grew up in the 50s and attended parochial school where we were required to sing in the choir and it was in Latin. I Learned a valuable life lesson. That lesson is that you don't appreciate something until you have lost it and we have lost it.

[@F-Man]

The Church ought to be very proud of the millennia of inspiration and support it has lent to the great arts, many of which then were employed by their talented masters to glorify God. Music in particular is phenomenal to that end, from Gregorian Chant to the spectacular masterpiece mass settings by composers such as Zelenka, it leaves both a first time casual listener and seasoned musicians alike in awe of the wondrous capacities that God has lent us in this realm to create for his sake.

[@rafaeljonathanmonterrosoca8400]

Gloria a Dios en las alturas y en la tierra paz a los hombres de buena voluntad.

[@markaxleumayam5979]

We Roman Catholic SHOULD NOT GIVE UP our PATRIMONY!

[@averageman7856]

This video has nothing to do with patrimony, and I was struck by the many images therein of religious and lay women making their contribution. IMO the Roman church would be immeasurably improved were women allowed a larger role. Exhibit A: all the sexual abuse of both minors and adults promulgated by priests and abetted by the hierarchy

[@aaronsmith5904]

He means patrimony as in all the good and beauty that we inherited from the generations of Catholics and composers. Both men and women, lay, religious and clerical contribute to this. It is horrible that those men priests and bishops both abused and hid abuse. What should be done is what is being done, women are in positions of influence, and people are being taught how to look for abuse, what signs can you look for. Also the very basic teaching (but still has to be said) that priests aren’t perfect. Another great thing that was implemented, is a kid/kids cannot be left alone with one adult, there must be at least 2 adults, even if that adult is a priest. For example, confessionals (at least in my diocese), have to be soundproof with glass. So that if a kid needs the sacrament of confession or needs to speak privately with a priest, then can do so, but a parent or another adult can see clearly into the confessional, to prevent times and places for sexual abuse to occur.

[@averageman7856]

@@aaronsmith5904 Thanks for the education

[@JR-ru1hh]

It’s so beautiful to see Roman Catholics ‘resurrecting’ what Anglo-Catholics have held and done since e the reformation.

[@averageman7856]

@@JR-ru1hh Amusing anecdote: My ex partner is an Episcopal priest and he assisted at an Anglo-Catholic church where we lived. In spite of the sign outside clearly identifying it as an Episcopal church, it took a Roman Catholic man 3 months to figure out it was not a Roman Catholic church

[@isaiah3872]

Thank God for the talents of so many who are committed to the revival of traditional sacred music! I stronly lean towards celebrating liturgy in the vernacular (if only Tridentine Masses were like this 😩) & the 3-year lectionary introduced by Vatican II. But since learning about the Latin Church's centuries-old repertoire of music, it baffles me that - at least in much of the English-speaking Church - we've largely abandoned both chanting and the very lyrics of these chants, in favour of only vernacular hymns or contemporary Christian music. If we believe that we still have the fullness of faith established by Christ & passed on by His apostles, and liturgical music is meant to animate us towards union with God...whose music &/or lyrics can better express this reality than our own? If needed, non-European Catholic cultures can still translate the lyrics.

[@jeannehall6546]

My church uses sacred chant in its Sunday morning and Holy Day Masses (It has contemporary music on Sunday nights). There is also the Anglican Ordinariate, which is very traditional in its liturgy- and it’s in English!

[@CatholicRevertsInMotion]

I need this. 😢❤

[@francisb2278]

I had just attended a multicultural Mass. I'm always so blessed by the joyous hymns by the African brethren! Really moving and beautiful for me. Felt like King David would've been exuberantly singing and dancing with them in praise of God! 😊 And they also sang some in Hebrew! 🙂

[@isabonita6779]

YEAH BABY IM GOING TO THOMAS AQUINAS NEXT YEAR WOOOHOOO

[@karlheven8328]

Where is that?

[@jeannehall6546]

It’s in California. Really a boarding high school for College students. No majors, No tenure for its instructors, and it lost its accreditation years ago when it insisted on teaching about white, male writers only- no recognition or regard towards women writers and writers of other backgrounds! The school has made no attempts at getting back that accreditation!

[@Sc-ld7os]

Pray for the end of 70’s folk music at mass

[@francisb2278]

I lead singing in communities of 30, 60, or 200 people. I use contemporary liturgical hymns... Because I don't read notes and can't remember melodies of chants. We have no one who can lead these types of sacred music. I just ensure all hymns are sung from the heart, prayerfully and with understanding. We have to do with what we've got. 1, 2 or 5 talents.

[@gabrielspavel7111]

Traditional music, Traditional Mass, period

[@CharityOrji-xq8oh]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@notebook92410]

👏 👏 bravo

[@Rocketninja200]

We need to restore all sacred art. Younger Catholics yurn for it. There's nothing inspiring about brutalist architecture, flip flop guitar guy, or finger doodle paintings. The transcendentals should ring out loudly. Beauty, truth, goodness.

[@paulelliotacedo8984]

Traditional sacred Music ☑️❤️ Hillsongs ❌

[@jeannehall6546]

Try explaining to the behindered ones I work with! They like Hillsong because its messages are simple for them to learn and understand. Anything else goes over their heads.

[@donaldturnbull]

About time 🙏

[@francisb2278]

How are you able to remember the melodies??? Any tips?

[@teresa.tells.it.like.it.is.2]

W-OOOOW! 🎶🎹 Awesome!❕‼️

[@paulcapaccio9905]

Sacred music is the only music we should ever listen to !!!!!!!!

[@Wedumols]

Yess❤

[@balarkpeixoto947]

Há um momento para cada coisa

[@fratertimotheusmariae2029]

+BEAUTY will save the world.

[@Harriette99]

Thanks to KZbin that we can enjoy tons of videos of quality sacred music. But after all, music just a tool. And if the tool does not make me love more, understand others more, see things in a more positive way, it's just another failed tool no matter how much I enjoy it.

[@karlheven8328]

If your just listening to'enjoy' in other words to consume it in what the the Pope calls 'Coca Cola mentality' than it is probably something to think about. We must allow the music to captivate our souls and to transform us in prayer and deep spiritual contemplation, taking over our lifes and giving all to God

[@williamj-t2n]

@@karlheven8328 Augustine was moved to tears of repentance when hearing psalms sung by Ambrose’s polyphonic choir in Milan.

[@isaiah3872]

Of course Hariette, that's why the video presenter mentions that sacrsd music's purpose is to glorify God & sanctify (make holy, or encourage towards holiness) the faithful. I wish the Church had a similarly renewed vigour across all dioceses & vicariates for in-depth catechism of adult laymen (not linked to RCIA/OCIA by the way).

[@karlheven8328]

@@williamj-t2n Totally true, and Gregorian Chant and Te Deum and other forms of sacred music are major reason for me to feel drawn to the Priesthood. Will join a seminary probably next year

[@trietnguyen8108]

Bring back Latin as first language to be on a published document from the Vatican! Bring back Gregorian Chant to the mass, in any liturgy! Maybe even just start at Mass Settings! Bring back TLM!

[@debgab9259]

Amazing how one can "hear" holy and sacred without having a studied knowledge of music. Know what sounds wrong so many times as I attend a few different churches with their understanding of music and maybe not understanding its ability to elevate.

[@rachelpops9239]

Btw Vatican 2 even says chant music is the best way

[@newellnarra875]

Then the Vatican should not restrict The Traditional Latin Mass. Our Church should revive it. We should say no to liturgical abuses. No to acoustics and concert-like songs in Mass.

[@rmglabog]

It's just sad.... We embraced rock and roll. We throw this treasure away.

[@lucianasalles7272]

📿📿📿📿📿📿📿📿

[@averageman7856]

Classical choral music is my go to choice and much of it is religious in nature. Although I identify as Buddhist, I find the repertoire to be a balm, music as medicine expresses it another way. The psalm, Anglican chat style, is beautiful. Fortunately it comes early in the mass, and I have been known to exit after it is sung since, for me, the rest of the mass is fairly downhill from there.

[@donatio1]

Soon we shall all be back to the Latin mass.

[@necymamaril3735]

In the first place, it should have been that way . Hymns in the church during mass should not have been changed after Vatican 2

[@MatthewThomas-ye1ei]

Saint Augustine actually said “who sings well prays twice”

[@mimichlo21]

☦️☦️☦️💜💜💜🛐🛐🛐

[@rebn8346]

Its so easy to pick up and start singing. The theatrical 60's abd 70's dated music just sounds so dated, stuck past and difficult to sing. Would love to hear the men and women singing back and forth to eachother as Ive heard at a mass by religious doing chant.

[@samuelanders7597]

Born in 89 and i have never enjoyed the music in my local church. Its the absolute worst part of every single mass ive ever been to

[@MatthewThomas-ye1ei]

Finish the sentence. “In most parishes across the US, the typical music is very ______”

[@robertoandrich9407]

Traditional latin mass should come back slowly, in small steps so that people get used to the idiom again. In few years we could have back the universal mass around the world with all its Beaty and value! I am sick of the modern world with its always changing values!

[@CONDACOCLIPS]

Chants are jewels...use sparingly fir special occasions...Ray Repp kept me in the church.... before Vat II, there was no singing....no chant!!... just silence....

[@rayvanee277]

So tired of 1970's folk music

[@alexpanagiotis4706]

The Holy Fathers have forbidden to use INSTRUMENTS FOR LITURGICAL MUSIC. IT IS PAGAN. EARLY CHURCH CHANT WAS MONOPHON AND ACAPELLA. IT IS AN ICON OF CHANT LIKE ICONS PAINTED WITH COLOURS

[@J.R2023]

Nope, we can use the organ ans string instruments

[@alexpanagiotis4706]

@J.R2023 Wrong, if you would know CHURCH HISTORY you would know THAT THE HOLY FATHERS WERE AGAINST ALL KINDS OF INSTRUMENTS. NO INSTRUMENTS HAVE BEEN USED. The Organ is FROM CIRCUS AND WAS A PRESENT FROM THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR. Latins put the Organ in the Church. In the East everyone shook his head🤦🤦🤦

[@alexpanagiotis4706]

@J.R2023 The same with PEWS AND CHAIRS. NO ONE USED THEM. CHRISTIANS STOOD DURING PRAYER AND PROSTRATED, KNELT. MEN AND WOMEN SEPERATED.

[@isaiah3872]

@@alexpanagiotis4706 From your surname and comment I can reasonably guess that you're Greek &/or Greek Orthodox. Even if your claim is true, and the use of instruments *for liturgical music* was considered profane by at least some (if not all) Church Fathers, in practice instruments have long been used to varying degrees, even in the Eastern churches. The Tewahedo & Eastern Catholics of Ethiopia & Eritrea use drums & hand bells, Copts use cymbals, whereas the Eastern Orthodox rarely use any instruments. For the Latin Church, I think Gregorian chants often sound better without the organ, but polyphony & modern hymns/songs do sound nice with a few instruments.

[@alexpanagiotis4706]

@isaiah3872 ALL CHURCH FATHERS - ASK A LITURGIST

[@CONDACOCLIPS]

Shit dude....these are all semiprofessional and professional choirs...with professional enthusiastic singers....not possible in parishers....

[@cherubintambwe6177]

St John cantius on Chicago is a good example of a how a parish can build its music ministry from the ground up. I think each diocese should provide music training to each of its parishes I think that can help

[@ryanscottlogan8459]

No thanks to Jorge Bergoglio.Let us hope after this nightmare pontificate is over we see a new liturgical movement that will end the abuses that have plagued the liturgy since 1969.

[@Finn1xv]

Francis is still the Pope and the vicar of Christ on earth. We should pray for him and the whole church, not cause more divide.

[@waltkeast9777]

@@Finn1xv The more recently ordained priests are much more traditonal than their Vatican II predecessors. It happened at parish, i.e. The Vatican II pastor retired and a 40s something priest replaced him. He cleaned up the liturgy of unauthorized modificatioins . Such an improvement!

[@ryanscottlogan8459]

@ I do not believe he is the Pope.

[@Harriette99]

If we do not speak of love, liturgy is meaningless.

[@nativegerry335]

Didn't Pope Francis at one point speak highly of sacred music

[@bec928]

There are many different kinds of Christian music. One is not better than the other. The Gregorian chants are very nice. But rhey are no more sacred than the other types of music and that includes today's music.

[@elliotthayes1176]

Wrong. Objectively, chant and high polyphony are in fact better than the pop folk garbage that passes for ‘christian’ music over the last 60 years.

[@bec928]

@@elliotthayes1176 That is your opinion and of course, you can have it. But God will love anything glorifying Him. He is the creator. He gives people the ability to create music, whether it is secular or religious. Chanting was done when musical instruments were few and far between. Most orchestra instruments we have today were not even thought of. The chants were done mainly by priests and they were not allowed to sing anything but what the church made. As I said there is nothing wrong with chants. But they have had their time. God is not stuck in the past, so why should His music be there.

[@suburbanbanshee]

You cannot have sacred music, if you aren't trying to make music dedicated solely to God. Didactic music is fine, but it's not sacred. Devotional music is fine, but it's not sacred. And if I take a random tune instead of trying to compose something for God -- and the same thing for lyrics -- it's not going to be sacred. There are many perfectly nice kinds of music, that are not sacred music. But if the music is greater within Mass, and a little bit lost and pointless in the concert hall, you will be able to see the difference between sacred music and other kinds of music.

[@bec928]

@@suburbanbanshee Who makes you God is in charge of music dedicated to Him. It is all sacred, even the songs you may not like. Chanting was fine when it came out but people and God have created more music and better music. Again Catholics think they are the only ones to please God. But you are not. You are also demeaning God. The Holy Spirit is the inspiration for Godly music. Catholics do not have any special hold on Him. Catholic mass is not special to anyone but Catholics. God is pleased with anyone or group that worships him. My church does every Sunday. It is pride that you are full of. God does not like prideful people. Many Catholics are full of pride.

[@jahdpianist]

Wrong.