During Lent the Gloria and Alleluia are not sung and the music focuses on simplicity and reflection more than it does at other times of the year. What won’t happen if you forget and start to sing the Gloria is you won’t be excommunicated. Yes, there was a time when music could get you excommunicated.
Georgio Allegri’s piece Miserere was so beautiful the Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone who transcribed, published or performed it outside the Sistine Chapel. The idea was to keep the mystery and holiness of this piece, and this stood for over 100 years. Then along came Mozart who at 14 went home after hearing it and wrote it down from memory. Now instead of worrying music will get us banned this Lent we can address each other in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and playing to the Lord in [our] hearts, giving thanks always, as Ephesian 5:19 asks us to do.
Showcasing SHA talent: This bird by Max in 7th looks way too cool to get excommunicated.
God bless,
Mrs. Alhadef
4th grade Aide
Campus Minister