liturgy gets a bad rap.

no political commentary here, which can't always be promised.

...on the other hand, i'll let you decide if i retrieved the video below from a favored political site (i.e. amusingly wondering about the overall sense of the chant) or, if i am now frequenting occupy wall street sites looking for inspiration. but again, no political commentary on this one. so let your minds run free wondering which of the above is true.

first, watch the video (listening not required).




a simple thought struck me after watching this video. no, not the incoherency of the chant. but that liturgy gets a bad rap. the whole outdated "let's join our heart and minds in unison" deal has fallen on hard times. but people seem to have something inherent in them that, at the very least, has a propensity toward such things. they even clap for it. even when it's incoherent. even when the one shepherding them has come unprepared and has to repeat a line multiple times to come up with the next anticlimactic and incoherent phrase.

now, i am, of course, not suggesting bad liturgy - i.e. that which is unprepared and/or incoherent - is a good in and of itself. people who get caught up in their propensities for a moment, will eventually come to discover emptiness. but liturgy doesn't have to be empty.

anyway.
-scott|e.