Every Catholic school should teach and use plainchant and have a choir that also sings a range of
beautiful church music.
Not exact matches
Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to
church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?&
church architecture, decoration,
music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the
Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?&
Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this
beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»
Large amounts of money are spent on
church architecture and
church music to make the setting not only
beautiful but conducive to worship.
They may select and pay for an eloquent preacher and provide for
beautiful music and an expensive staff, and the
church may still lack vitality.
While I cherish the
beautiful memories of great
music that Whitney brought into my life and the lives of countless more, I can not help but wish that she had stayed in the
church singing for the Lord... she most likely would have never ended up this way.
I grew up Lutheran and when I was younger I enjoyed going to
church with its pretty architecture,
beautiful music and friendly people.
This is the time to surround the Eucharist with beauty:
church, altar,
music, all should be a
beautiful as possible.
Personally, for reasons I have yet to understand, whenever I walk into an extraordinarily designed
church (even though I am not religious) or hear
beautiful, symphonic
music, I immediately start to tear up and have little control over it.
Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and
beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and
music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «
church» of nature.
First, I LOVE your blog but have never commented — I just just enjoyed the
beautiful pics!!!! Now about this post — I, too, get teary eyed or goose - pimply at
church which is fine... except that I play piano / keyboard during
music worship and the tears make me miss notes / chords / cues / page turns....