Sentences with phrase «more sacred music»

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About music, Van der Leeuw suggests, «The inclination to the absolute, which is called silence,» is the sacred extremity of music.54 What Van der Leeuw describes has been expressed in a more down - to - earth way on a poster: «The «consecrated spot» can not be distinguished from the playground.

Some school chaplains or diocesan youth centres have tried hard to move towards better and more catechetical music for worship but the danger remains that this is of transient appeal and can become quickly outdated and a source of amusement unlike the perennial sacred music of the Church which was actually mandated by Vatican II.

It doesn't take that much more time to sing all six verses of «For All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturgy.

This fundamental misinterpretation and misguided perception of the music of the sacred liturgy that is leading us down the path towards ever more fashionable styles of music being introduced to the Eucharist.

Christians today need to be thinking more carefully and deeply about sacred and secular in the realm of music.