"Dad Is Great! He Gives Us Chocolate Cake!"
Posted by: tony on 05/07/2007 10:57 AM
Updated by: tony on 05/07/2007 11:14 AM
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Expires: 06/07/2007 12:00 AM
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 Ma Beck writes a nice fisk aimed at one of St. Blog's favorite musical whipping boys of liturgical music, the St. Louis Jesuits.
A line from the article caught my eye:
At a time of great change following Vatican II, churches were hungry for a new kind of music.
I love Bill Cosby's comedy stories relating to his family. The reason they are so funny is that we can all relate to the situations he's talking about. One of my favorites is the one where his wife is gone and his children want him to give them chocolate cake for breakfast.
As a dad, he knows it's wrong. His children should be given balanced, nourishing food to help their growing bodies. However, children being children want things that are sweet. If you let a child choose his or her own menu it would consist of only foods like twinkies, potato chips, ice cream, candy and soda. The children finally convince Bill that chocolate cake is healthy. After all, it contains eggs, flour, milk, all kinds of things that are good for you. So Bill gives in and gives his children chocolate cake.
Then their mom comes home and the feces hits the fan...
Since Vatican II, we have become like spoiled children. We don't want to hear about sin. We want to be told how much Jesus loves us regardless of what we do. We don't want to take the time to learn Latin, we want our liturgy in our native language even if the translation is faulty. We don't want to admit our faults to God through our priest acting in persona Christi. We want sicky-sweet ditties that are playable on folk guitars, rather than pay for an organist, or learn to play the organ ourselves. We don't want the transcendental majesty of the Holy Mass. We want to be entertained, and do it now!
"Here I am, Lord" is a twinkie. "Ave Verum Corpus" is broccoli. We don't like broccoli, even though it is filled with vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants that a body needs to grow strong. Adults usually know they need to eat broccoli and steak and carrots.
Children want a steady diet of twinkies and coke.
Our Bishops and priests (in the United States, at least) have become like Bill Cosby. They are justifying giving their children the "chocolate cake" of the modern liturgy by invoking some non-existent "spirit of Vatican II" as justification, just like Bill Cosby found non-existent nutritional value in the chocolate cake.
Our pastors need to start making us "eat our vegetables". And the most spiritually nutritious thing we can eat is the Body of our Lord in the Eucharist.
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