While liturgical music has often struggled to live up to the quality and beauty the mystery of the Eucharist requires, we can promote its renewal by investing in a solid musical education for clergy and laity.
Certainly the encounter with modernity and the introduction of the languages spoken in the Liturgical stirred up many problems, of languages, forms and genres. Sometimes a certain mediocrity, superficiality and banality prevailed, to the detriment of the beauty and intensity of the liturgical celebrations.
For this the various actors in this field, musicians and composers, conductors and singers of choirs, liturgical animators, can make a major contribution to the renewal, especially quality, of sacred music and liturgical chant.
Half a century after the Instruction of Musicam Sacrum, the conference wanted to elaborate, in an interdisciplinary and ecumenical perspective, the current relationship between sacred music and contemporary culture.
Of great importance, it was also a reflection on the aesthetic and musical education of both the clergy and religious and the laity engaged in the pastoral life and more directly in the choirs.
The Church has a great responsibility toward liturgical music, becaused it deals with the sacred mystery of the Eucharist and the sacred music, to that order, must balance the past and present in a way that invites full participation and lift the congregation's heart to God.
The dual mission of the Church, is, on the one hand, to safeguard and promote the rich and varied heritage inherited from the past, using it with balance in mind and avoiding the risk of a nostalgic vission that becomes a sort of "Archaeology".
On the other hand, we have to also ensure that the sacred music and liturgical chant don't ignore the artistic and musical languages of modernity.
All those responsible for liturgical music, on whatever level, must know how, to embody and translate the Word of God into songs, sounds, harmonies that makes the heart of our peers vibrate, creating even an appropriate emotional climate, that puts in order the faith and raises reception and full participation in the mystery that it celebrates.
Active and conscious participation in the liturgy constitutes being able to enter deeply into the mystery of God made present in the Eucharist. Thanks in particular to the religious silence and musicality of language which the Lord speaks to us.
Liturgical action is given a more noble form when it is celebrated in song and with the participation of the people.
True solemnity of liturgical action does not depend so much from a more ornate form of singing and a more magnificent ceremony than on its worthy and religious celebration.
Do not lose sight of this important goal: to help the liturgical assembly and the people of God to perceive and participate, with all the senses, physical and spiritual, in the mystery of God.
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