Sunday

I hate contemporary Catholic music! I had to play contemporary trash hymns at the 9:30 yesterday, and the printed accompaniments made me feel like a frickin' cocktail lounge pianist. Where is the grace, the elegance, the musicality in modern Catholic worship? What's worse, the hymnal is so convoluted, the average parishioner can't follow the "new" hymns, so they just don't sing.

The 11 o'clock was better. We sang some anthem from Handel's Judas Maccabeus for the offertory and a strange little arrangement of the men singing "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" against the women singing "Let All Mortal Flesh" for communion. Seems like we're getting a little "Emmanuel" overdose this Advent, since the Mass setting is all tunes taken from that hymn. Oh, well.