What do we think the Mass is?

A post on the coming motu propio and the fact that she ( like I,) has no dog in the fight.

Very neatly, very succinctly put, Miss Welborn

http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2007/06/on_the_mp.html

This bit here -

my great and late-to-the-party discovery over the past two years has concerned the place of music in Mass and what the ideal actually is, according to the tradition and documents of the Church.

- is very interesting to me, because there is no shortage of opinions, and worse, execution and enforcement of their own preference by people who have not made the discovery, who actually prefer to wallow in their own ignorance, because if they actually tried to educate themselves in what the documents and the tradition say, they would be deprived of their favorite argument: that anyone who thwarts them is just elevating HIS personal preference over THEIR personal preference.

It's as if some DARTH insists on being our nutritionist, but studiously avoids reading the labels so that she can decree "Let them eat Twinkies," and pretend anyone advocate a healthier diet is merely pushing his opinions.

Yes, we were taught that Knowledge is Power, but clearly in the world of today's Liturgy Mongers, ignorance is how the power base is preserved....