The article highlights excerpts from a speech by Msgr. Valentin Miserachs Grau, director of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, in which he discuss the need to safeguard the sacred music of the Church's liturgy. According to the Monsignor:
"the liturgy, even in the music, should educate all people -- including youth and children...Due to general ignorance, especially in certain sectors of the clergy," certain media act as loudspeakers for "products that, devoid of the indispensable characteristics of sacred music -- sanctity, true art, universality -- can never procure the authentic good of the Church."On keeping contact with traditional forms of sacred music, he goes on to say that this contact:
"should become again the living song of the assembly that finds in it that which calms their deepest spiritual tensions, and which makes them feel that they are truly the people of God."Read the rest of the article here at Zenit.org.
