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I went to Mass and a '60s/70s rock concert broke out

You know, I really believe that not all music, even Catholic music, is good liturgical music. I've sung in choirs who've done both famous classical choral pieces, Gregorian Chant, and more contemporary classical liturgical music (ie. Alexander Peloquin, etc.) I agree that one has to be sensitive and prayerful to choose good music for liturgical celebrations. The Mass, being of utmost importance in our faith, demands this. However, I would posit that less than one in 10 (or even fewer) parishes are able to put a choir together of quality to do any of these justice. And it's worse than that. The people who tend to complain most loudly about liturgical music don't want modern classical music either. They want a return to the earlier centuries. The don't want good music, they want old good music.

A lot of this type of thought falls into the same type of thinking that the King James Version of the bible does for some non-Catholic Christian denominations. 'If it was good enough for Jesus it's good enough for us!' Mind you, as Catholics we have our own Douay Rheims Bible thumpers to compete with the KJV Protestants. It's not that there isn't anything good, it's just that there isn't anything good since such-and-such a century.

I hope we can more beyond this type of thinking to realize that, yes, there are good things that have come to pass since the 17th century, and that the things we most dislike about 'these modern times' will pass away themselves in the not distant future.