The Catholic Faith is not hokey. The truths of the Faith are not simply shallow ideas made up to give people an emotional crutch with which to get through life. Catholic minds are not filled with crayon rainbows and cotton ball clouds. The Catholic Church does not preach the "why don't we all just try to get along" doctrine, compromise, that everybody's religion is just fine, or that everyone will go to Heaven.
Why then, is this taught in the liturgical music?
The doctrines of the Church have so much depth, mystery, and beauty. They are far more incomprehensible and intimate than the superficial "everybody just be nice to everybody" maxim.
Should not the liturgical music, presented to God and man at Mass, reflect this character? The character of beauty, mystery, depth... and above all, love? (This being True Love, which is the wish of a person for the perfect well being of his neighbor. Not simply a warm fuzzy emotion towards particular persons.)
Any music that falls short of this goal is merely a bunch of hokey, aimed at causing a flow of emotion for the brief period of time the majority of Catholics are in church, rather than drawing these Catholics to experience freely the depth of the truths of the faith, to meditate on them, to wonder at them, and the awesomeness of God. In many cases, such music has even been found to teach heresies against these truths!
Any music that falls short is a mockery of Our Lord and His Church.
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