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We Need To Sing At Mass, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

We Need To Sing At Mass, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

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  • “Shout with joy to God, all the earth. Sing you a psalm in his name. Give glory to His praise.”
  • These words of today’s Introit are inviting us to rejoice in God and not only to praise Him but to give glory to His praise. How are we to do this? By singing.
  • As human beings, singing is one of the best means we have to express the joy that is in our hearts and also give solemnity to our rejoicing.
  • God has given us the great gift of our human voice and practically everyone around the world uses it at times to sing.
  • The human voice is considered to be superior to all musical instruments for a number of reasons
    • Because it is an instrument that is part of our body, we are able to produce many more sounds with it, and especially we are able to form words.
    • Humans respond emotionally more to the sound of the human voice than to any instrument.
    • The human voice alone functions as both a wind and a string instrument at the same time.
  • It is for this reason that humans have always made music using their voices, using it to accompany their work, their gatherings, and especially their religious ceremonies.
  • And just as the Catholic Church provides us with the greatest act of worship of God, the Holy Mass, so too she provides us with the greatest music to accompany the worship of God.
  • The need to compose proper music for the Mass has been so great that the Mass has often been referred to as the foundational pillar of Western music. It was because of the Mass that musical notation was standardized, that polyphonic music was developed, and that musicians had employment over the centuries.
  • For a long time, in the history of the Church, all Masses were sung Masses; the Low Mass only came into being in the Middle Ages. St. Paul already speaks about singing in his epistle to the Ephesians, when he invites them to “be filled with the holy Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord” (Eph. 5:18-19). This is the epistle for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost.
  • The Fathers of the Church spoke of the importance of singing at Mass:
    • St. Augustine explained that we sing at Mass to show our love for God.
    • St. Basil the Great says that our liturgical songs are like a spiritual incense that raises up to God.
    • St. John Chrysostom said these beautiful words: “Every believer is a musical instrument made by God, and at the same time a musician. If the musician (the soul) keeps the instrument (the body) pure and uses it properly, the two together raise to the Creator a hymn of praise that is pleasing to God.”
  • The bottom line is that one of the main reasons for which God created the human voice is for singing, and the best possible use of the human voice is singing to God at Mass.
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