What we really need, in Mass, is music to die for—that is, music that is appropriate to the full depth of our experience of human suffering and sin, the reality of death, and the promise of a glorious existence, as all bound up in Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.
What we tend to get is music appropriate to cheerfulness rather than joy, balm for scratches rather than deep wounds, songs of contentment rather than of peace which passes all understanding, music aimed more at giving us a bit of a lift on Sunday morning, rather than drawing us into the perilous drama of salvation so we can make it through the week and the rest of life.
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