Wedding Bell Weirdness
Nov. 6th, 2010 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodel Wow, whose bright idea was it to have Rush's "Tom Sawyer" on the playlist for a wedding reception?
The sad thing was, that was one of the better songs the DJ played last night. The rest was a mix of oldies so moldy they had entire civilizations of fungus growing on them, or totally soulless dance hits. The happy couple has great taste in music, but the wedding and reception both were arranged and paid for by the parental units, so the ceremony and the party were tasteless and bore little overall relation to the very charming and personable bride and groom. At least it was the kind of wedding where we were genuinely happy for the people involved-- intelligent, artistic, sweet, and truly nice people-- and can imagine them having a good lifetime together. I have another wedding today (in about, uh, five hours) and that one I am slightly less positive about because the bride has a kind of unstable history, but the bridegroom is a good and responsible man and I think they finally have their act together. I hope so, anyway, as they have three kids between them...
Also. Sedevacantists may be a scary and hateful fringe group, but they are 100% correct about the degraded nature of the modern Catholic liturgy. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky.
The "wedding mass" was an undignified mess that lacked any degree of spiritual edification. The pre-Vatican II mass is a powerful artistic and literary work that, even if it doesn't necessarily speak to god, most definitely sounds a chord within the human spirit. The Novus Ordo liturgy is mealy-mouthed unmusical garbage, with every sharp edge filed off and every hint of majesty and mystery stripped away. It is, put simply, unholy. It was also embarrassing. And the music was terrible.
ETA: Wedding #1 was much more dignified, but there was no Holy Communion, which was weird. The ceremony felt chopped-off; I've never seen a Catholic wedding without Holy Communion before.
The sad thing was, that was one of the better songs the DJ played last night. The rest was a mix of oldies so moldy they had entire civilizations of fungus growing on them, or totally soulless dance hits. The happy couple has great taste in music, but the wedding and reception both were arranged and paid for by the parental units, so the ceremony and the party were tasteless and bore little overall relation to the very charming and personable bride and groom. At least it was the kind of wedding where we were genuinely happy for the people involved-- intelligent, artistic, sweet, and truly nice people-- and can imagine them having a good lifetime together. I have another wedding today (in about, uh, five hours) and that one I am slightly less positive about because the bride has a kind of unstable history, but the bridegroom is a good and responsible man and I think they finally have their act together. I hope so, anyway, as they have three kids between them...
Also. Sedevacantists may be a scary and hateful fringe group, but they are 100% correct about the degraded nature of the modern Catholic liturgy. If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky.
The "wedding mass" was an undignified mess that lacked any degree of spiritual edification. The pre-Vatican II mass is a powerful artistic and literary work that, even if it doesn't necessarily speak to god, most definitely sounds a chord within the human spirit. The Novus Ordo liturgy is mealy-mouthed unmusical garbage, with every sharp edge filed off and every hint of majesty and mystery stripped away. It is, put simply, unholy. It was also embarrassing. And the music was terrible.
ETA: Wedding #1 was much more dignified, but there was no Holy Communion, which was weird. The ceremony felt chopped-off; I've never seen a Catholic wedding without Holy Communion before.
