Canon David Grant challenges young people to use their talents to enhance the celebration of the Eucharist (Letters, 29 March). I wonder if sometimes the fault lies not with the young, or with the priest, but with older members of the congregation. We used to have a traditional choir which favoured plainchant and the more traditional hymns for the 11 a.m. Mass. A young woman volunteered to run a choir for the younger children at a later Mass, complete with flutes and guitars and “happy-clappy” tunes. My girls loved it and were happy to take part. But the traditional choir members hated it, and upset themselves so much about it that the newly arrived parish priest simply scrapped both choirs and installed in their place one of those horrible electronic pre-programmed organ
03 April 2014, The Tablet
Out of tune
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