Richard Morris Quotes

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• It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
• The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
• Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.
• Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.
• Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
• Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.
• When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
• For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of…
• Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to…
• Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least…
• The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who…
• The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
• And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a…
• Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.
• Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
• Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.
• All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.
• You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality,…
• At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have…
• Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

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