Friday, July 16, 2010
Fr. Ruff on "Performance" as a swear word
You might be interested in Fr. Anthony Ruff's defense of the term performance in the context of liturgy, which I find persuasive. Too often people use the term performance, always in snarling tones, to music they do not like - and the forbidding of anything at all resembling a performance has been used to rule out anything artistically accomplished from taking place at Mass. See page 383 of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform (1987).
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