Marco Frisina: “No to pop and rock music in churches”

I think this statement is even worse: "Some priests applaud frequently and rhythmically, unintentionally transforming the mass into something folkloric"

no, I don't think he is pulling our leg.

As a musician, I appreciate it very much. And liturgically speaking, I agree with him

Well Luca, could his music perhaps be politically engaged?

If it isn't light ... there's not much left to it.

Frisina's music is born with a precise purpose: liturgical.... and it hits the mark perfectly.

Phen I agree that it is not 'politically engaged' music (and I also agree that statements like his always give the impression that it is the result of a retrograde vision regarding worship).

However, personally, I agree on one thing: the sobriety of musical expression, which must be a prerogative of liturgical music when the purpose is to actively involve the assembly of the faithful. This sobriety is a common prerogative of the Gregorian, Ambrosian, and Reformed repertoires (I am thinking of the chorale). And Frisina draws extensively from these musical realms.

In view of such sobriety, at Mass one does not roll in the dust in prayer of supplication, nor does one skip on the pews in prayer of praise.

the rock song is not to be banned... in itself. But the principle is that a Mass is something where the door is open: anyone can enter and the rite (in all its aspects, not just the musical ones) must be something 'equidistant' from everyone's sensibility.

Then we know that this does not happen. Going to Mass in different parishes, everyone can observe that one sees and hears all sorts of things..... Just think, for example, not of the music but of the homily: in certain Masses, sermons of a theological level are given that children must endure; in other Masses, 'interactive' sermons are given as if the audience were composed only of children from the early classes of catechism.