Liturgical Music

One aspect of liturgical worship that evokes the strongest opinions from those in the pews would be the music used for prayer.

The amount of music (from "sing everything" to "sing nothing") and the languages, styles, and instrumentations of that music—chant, hymns, organs, guitars, and on occasion a "polka mass"—can provoke reactions from glee to dread, from comfort to disgust, from profound prayer to, well, whatever the opposite of prayer would be.

In this Catholic Update, Orin Johnson, Director of Music and Liturgy at St. Margaret of Scotland Parish in St. Louis, discusses how music is an instrumental part of the Mass.