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March 29, 2018
Robert Jimenez
Millbrae
Re “Liturgical music choices,” Letters, March 15:
Sue Hayes’ letter expresses her opinion as member of the parish liturgy committee that she shares with “a loving community” at their Sunday liturgy. She senses a “serious disconnect if the liturgical celebrations are grounded in another century,” and “going back to Latin and chant.”
Well, it may not suit her perception of what our Holy Mass is really about, but it’s time for her to understand. For centuries, the holy Mass has been a serious religious celebration of the agonized suffering and death of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that sorrowful, bleeding man on the cross behind the altar. The presiding priest was consecrated to enable immediate transformation of the body and blood of Jesus Christ from the bread and wine we consume at Communion. And that’s what Mass is about. Not pretty music and grandiose words, but the death of Jesus on the cross, visible on the altar and expressing God’s love for us all. This is what Lent teaches us, all the way through Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
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