Help me to find this song!

UTAROU · #1 Feb 9, '12, 4:39 pm

Hello! I'm from Russia! Recently I watched video from the Mass in Los Angeles. I wanted to find a song which begins in the video with the third minute. Among Catholic friends here in Russia, no one knows this song. Please help me to find it!

You can see this video here:

http://vk.com/video27403442_162007495

Thanks in advance!

Julia Mae · #2 Feb 9, '12, 5:29 pm

It was a beautiful and joyful Mass, thank you for sharing. (Although that video might set off an epileptic attack among some people!) It's a great Grace of God that we can speak to one another here, and see a video like this one:

http://vk.com/video27403442_161923605

Welcome and God bless you and all you encounter abundantly.

RastaPasta · #3 Feb 9, '12, 6:08 pm

Well it's not exactly the type of Catholic Mass that I would attend.
I half expected Tony Robbins to jump up on the altar.
I like my mass to be a bit more "old fashioned".

Julia Mae · #4 Feb 10, '12, 5:13 am

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Originally Posted by RastaPasta

Well it's not exactly the type of Catholic Mass that I would attend.
I half expected Tony Robbins to jump up on the altar.
I like my mass to be a bit more "old fashioned".

Or typically conservative Latin/Western. It reminded me of a Mass I went to where Archbishop Chaput presided that was "typically Native-American Catholic." Or a Charismatic Mass I attended. Full of the Holy Spirit. Also like some African Masses I have seen video of. These Masses are quite old-fashioned, just not typically American. Maybe that's why those churches are growing and ours is shrinking.

maggiecme · #5 Feb 11, '12, 6:31 pm

The song which begins about 3 minutes in is by Jacob and Matthew. It's call Let us Stand.

Here's a link to their version on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa6HPNCeInk

James924 · #6 Feb 11, '12, 7:43 pm

Ah, liturgical dancing, women spinning around with giant cups of incense in their hands, what wonderful gifts the Novus Ordo and the "new springtime" have given us. Excuse me while I go vomit like I've never vomited before..

Havard · #7 Feb 11, '12, 8:06 pm

His Eminence Cardinal Arinze (Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments) stated fairly explicitly that this is is not appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJFdmmqj_s

James924 · #8 Feb 11, '12, 8:25 pm

Unfortunately, the people who attend this type of mass are the people who don't even listen to the pope, so I doubt they'd listen to Cardinal Arinze.

Havard · #9 Feb 11, '12, 8:42 pm

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Originally Posted by James924

Unfortunately, the people who attend this type of mass are the people who don't even listen to the pope, so I doubt they'd listen to Cardinal Arinze.

Eh, I'm sure a few of them know better, but I think there are a lot of Catholics out there who are in the dark about what's licit or proper. Plenty of folks were raised to respect authority but weren't well-catechized, so they see a priest, and they automatically assume whatever he's up to must be A-okay.

IrishRush · #10 Feb 11, '12, 9:12 pm

I have to say I'm stunned. When I saw the deacon twirling up the aisle with the Gospel in his hands, my mouth fell open.

And the bishop walking around the altar, clapping his hands in time to the music floored me altogether.
Have these people never learned of the solemnity of the sacrifice being offered at mass? Do they simply misunderstand what it means to "celebrate" the mass? Or do they think they can attract non-Catholics by behaving like this?

Why is this tolerated by Rome???

m134e5 · #11 Feb 11, '12, 9:13 pm

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Originally Posted by Havard

Eh, I'm sure a few of them know better, but I think there are a lot of Catholics out there who are in the dark about what's licit or proper.

I think many Catholics have bought into the protestant notion that "God doesn't care how people worship." It is very sad. Throughout most of recorded history, God and pagan deities were worshiped in a specific way. Worship wasn't a free-for-all- even the pagans got that. Why now, all of a sudden, is it all about following ones feelings? (If it is about following one's feelings, they certainly aren't following mine).

Gardenman · #12 Feb 11, '12, 11:17 pm

The entire thing is insane.
So have we now replaced the CRUCIFIX with a plain "cross" ???
I suppose I should be shocked...but nothing shocks me anymore.

This is almost as bad as a New Years Day Mass I attended a few years ago where everyone in the opening procession was carrying helium ballons and they let them go before the mass began. The church looked like a circus tent or a Hollywood gala with all those stupid balloons.

archangel04 · #13 Feb 11, '12, 11:50 pm

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Originally Posted by Julia Mae

Or typically conservative Latin/Western. It reminded me of a Mass I went to where Archbishop Chaput presided that was "typically Native-American Catholic." Or a Charismatic Mass I attended. Full of the Holy Spirit. Also like some African Masses I have seen video of. These Masses are quite old-fashioned, just not typically American. Maybe that's why those churches are growing and ours is shrinking.

I guess us typical Westerners don't have the holy spirit. How sad that those of us who attend the Latin mass will never be able to experience the Holy Spirit, who ever will save us?

James924 · #14 Feb 11, '12, 11:55 pm

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Originally Posted by archangel04

I guess us typical Westerners don't have the holy spirit. How sad that those of us who attend the Latin mass will never be able to experience the Holy Spirit, who ever will save us?

Zing!

odile53 · #15 Feb 12, '12, 3:54 am

I used to dance for New York City Ballet. I wouldn't call that sashaying around with ignited bowls of incense "dance." Lousy choreography, poor spacing, crummy technique. One of the women is swinging that bowl of incense (that looks like a cheap ice bucket, by the way) around as if it's a baseball bat. Half of them have their posture way off. The male dancer looks like a Harry Potter impersonator in that professor cloak or whatever costume they gave him. The women's costumes are similarly awful, who thought black and blue would be a good color scheme (reminds me of a nasty bruise.) The choreography is way too slow in the beginning for the music's tempo, they seem to be moving in half-time, but I suppose that is to be expected for people bobbing around with something in their hands that is on fire! They obviously can't turn (too much knee-bend before each turn, they look like they're on very worn-out springs.)

I've never seen liturgical dance done well, even in Protestant churches, where some groups do such things, because they seem to be thrown together by some parishioner with a couple of years of modern dance lessons under her belt who fancies herself a choreographer. I'm grateful that the Catholic Church doesn't permit it during Mass.

Okay, that's my very uncharitable dance review. It adds nothing to the liturgy, it is distracting, and it isn't even very good modern dance! God and the parishioners deserve something better.

Like I said, I'm happy we don't "do" liturgical dance! I have no idea how this performance was supposed to be conducive to prayer, unless it was a fervent prayer that it would just be OVER!