THE STATE OF THE MODERN VERNACULAR MASS TODAY, MAKES ME WANT TO PULL OUT MY HAIR, WHICH IS NOT TOO HARD TO DO AS THERE IS SO LITTLE!

I gave kudos to Bishop Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City for banning certain hymns that the Liturgy Commission of the USCCB had banned a few years ago. 

But isn't that one of the main problems with the Modern Mass which everyone wants to adjust or fix because no one is actually thrilled with it and we are always finding ways to fix it?

Recently I, and the synodal congregation in front of me, celebrated Sunday Mass at St. Francis by the Sea here on Hilton Head Island. I was thrilled that the Processional Chant was actually the English version of the Entrance Chant but sung in a responsorial fashion. One did not even need the words and music in front of them. The cantor, chanted the refrain and everyone repeated and then the verses were chanted to organ accompaniment. In other words it was done as the Responsorial Psalm is done. The setting was very nice and singable. 

It was completed with the Gloria Patri and final refrain. It was great and I was able to bow at the words, Glory be to the Father...

There is no need for the liturgy planner to pick some kind of hymn for any sung Mass. Sing what is prescribed. The official Entrance Chant, the offertory and Communion antiphons should never be changed to something else, like "All are Welcome" "Ashes" and the "You Who" Song--aka, Eagle's Wings!

These are Scripture passages as important to the Liturgy as the Scriptures in the Liturgy of the Word! The danger, for the Liturgy of the Word, is the synodal "church" that would want people not to listen to God's Word but rather to heterodox Catholics bloviating about things they want to change. Perhpas the synodal church will remove the Gospel from the Liturgy of the Word and read on-going segments of the Synod on Synod's final document which Pope Francis adopted as a part of His Holiness' synodal magisterium. 

In the spoken or sung TLM, never, ever, was it permitted to omit chanting or saying the Introit, Offertory and Communion Chants! Never!

Reform the MVM by restoring the sanity of the the TLM as it concerns these chants and stop using made-up hymns of whatever type. I don't have much more hair to pull out!