Friday Frivolity: Worst Catholic Songs Ever?
On the Pints With Jack Slack channel we’ve recently been talking about the worst church songs. The Catholic Talk Show offer their suggestions…
Tag: Music
Music Monday: The Blessing
Better than a bunch of celebrities singing the vastly-overrated Imagine…
Friday Frivolity: Clint Eastwood on Christian Music
Heres’ another devastatingly spot-on video from the folks over at Lutheran Satire. This time, Clint Eastwood reads the song lyrics to popular contemporary songs…
Requiem
Do you like traditional Catholic music? In that case, I think you should check out an album that has just been released by the FSSP:
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The problem with Christian media…
The problem with Christian media…
Who killed CCM?
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you will know that I happen to rather like Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). I think that there’s an awful lot of dross out there which some Christians will lap up simply because it has the label of “Christian”, but I also think that there’s some great stuff out there (Matt Maher, Audrey Assad etc).
Having said that, a friend posted this on Facebook and I thought some of the comments were too hilarious not to share…
Make Church Music Great Again
On Sunday I had a friend visit my Byzantine parish here in San Diego. It was her first time visiting an Eastern parish, so afterwards we spent some time talking about the music used in the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. In case you have never visited an Eastern Rite parish, you should know that we don’t use instruments, relying instead on the human voice. If you’d like to have an idea of what that sounds like, you might like to check out this post.
This discussion after the Liturgy about music reminded me of this video by Brian Holdsworth, provocatively entitled “Make Church Music Great Again”. In his video he discusses the meaning and use of music, particularly with reference to the celebration of the Eucharist: