(Update: This video has been removed from YouTube. I guess they figured the cultish New Age tone of the video would be harmful to Obama.)
Manifest Obama?
Once again I am having to credit Mark in Spokane, who by the way, is no longer Libertas et Memoria, but goes by the new and improved name of "A Catholic in Spokane", with bringing to us one of the creepiest things I have seen lately. It came to him by way of EyeBlastTV.
I have a special interest in the New Age influences on our world and in our churches. I do an hour and a half presentation tracing the history of this very disturbing trend, and this video is about as New Age goofy as you can get. Goofy but dangerous. Note all the "code" words i.e. Envision, Manifest, and statements like "make it a reality".
The background music is a song entitled "Sanctuary" by Randy Scruggs. It could, to be polite, be best termed a nursery rhyme with hypnotic and repetitious overtones. Unfortunately, our 10:30 Mass was introduced to this piece of nonsense when our new music director showed up. Now everyone sings this while they go to communion. Needless to say I never, ever go to the 10:30 Mass.
The people behind this video and the website promoting it, "Manifest Obama", dispense their New Age influences through their other website called Wisdomology.
This should make you sit back and take a deep breath and run for your rosary.
18 comments:
Adrienne,
I couldn't even watch it half way through it was making me ill. That song was hideous enough (ya'll really sing that at Mass??), but those people saying "Pres. BO" ugh.
I understand we are a large nation with many different ideologies, but hello people, what are you thinking when you vote for BO??
Well, that was certainly scary.
By the way, I found you on Laura's blog - from Idaho to North Carolina and back to (Central) Idaho!
Paula - "(ya'll really sing that at Mass??)"
'Fraid so. I don't imbide at that font of Kool Aid. As a matter of fact we now just cruise down the road to another church. To be fair, the other two Masses stick to Haugen/Hass and other assorted horrible music.
Packrat - Any friend of Laura is a friend of mine. Laura IS. THE. BEST. I saw you are one of those smarty pants sewing types. All I can do is "fancy" work - embroidery, cross stitch, etc. Clothes are a mystery.
I just don't get it.
Well, when it comes to music, even my mother who is probably going to vote for BO, hates that kind of music. And, this past Saturday she went with me to the 4 pm vigil, and sure enough "All are Welcome" was being played. Oh, how she could hardly contain herself. I had never heard it before, and I concured, it was mightly bad.
Well, thanks for giving me a taste of what life could be like in an Obamanation. I'm voting tomorrow.(The only reason I didn't "early" vote today is that I'm checking on some local representatives and ammendments. That's important stuff.)
When I played the cut, there was no audio track, for whatever reason. But that changes nothing -- I still can't see how any politician or political party is compatible with Catholic teaching.
But someone did mention "All are welcome". Now, I hate to upset anyone, but my very staid and conservative parish does that quite frequently at the 4 PM vigil. You know, it is quite impressive in sign language -- spouse and I really like it. Is there any heresy in it? Not that we can find. Have I heard anyone complain about it? No.
Different strokes?
The juxtaposition of that clip with "Sanctuary" was just plain weird. I'm thinking maybe someone was having their idea of a joke, and put them together. If it was serious, it didn't work, because you can't even hear plainly what the people are saying over the song.
"Sanctuary" isn't one of my favorites, I find it repetitious and boring. But I can't see it as heretical or New Age. As Irene said, "different strokes".
Thanks for mentioning my blog again! I appreciate the publicity!
BTW, I changed the name again -- it's now A Catholic Patriot.
Cheers!
BTW, the love for The One seems to have hit the bishops hard. They just issued a new statement that give plenty of cover for Catholics to vote for Obama. I've got a post on this over at my blog...
Ah, now I get it. Finally I got the audio track to play.
The music is not Catholic, of course -- just a straight simple hymn common in black Baptist/Pentacostal congregations. I can understand that it sounds strange to white Catholic ears -- with the possible exception of charismatics. And yes, it is repetitious -- that is the whole purpose. Exactly the same principle as the Rosary.
I also could not watch it all, too upsetting:(
We gotta keep those prayers going... Blessings to you Adrienne:)
"All are welcome" sung by a soprano with some considerable musical talent AND a Flute for back-up AND a projector with the words/subtitles ABOVE the Alter/Sanctuary so we could sing along. I almost could not believe my eyes. (I might have taken to it if the projector wasn't going. Very distracting.)
I was born post-VatII and I will admit I have not any musical taste or talent. So if I was attending a staid and quiet parish and this song was sung I might not even notice. But I noticed plenty the Projector. Almost as bad as litergical dance. (A whole other can of worms...)
People are free to like or dislike any type of music they wish. However, that has nothing to do with music considered appropriate for Mass, either put forth in the GIRM or any of the other documents that govern our liturgy.
It is not a matter of "what turns our cranks" but what the liturgy demands. The documents make it very clear and Our Holy Father has spoken and written extensively on this matter.
To continue playing inappropriate music (and, yes - music is objectively bad or good), is to be in direct disobedience to the Church.
Lola - a soprano and a flute must have been pretty hard on the ears...
Adrienne,
I changed the name of the blog back to A Catholic In Spokane. Thanks for the advice!
The freaking twaddle "they" pick for our Masses. Nothing obnoxiously bad, but nothing good either. We USED to get a nice solo Panis Angelicus after Communion or an Ave Maria, but some dipwad decreed "no more solos" so we are condemned to subpar mediocrity.
The tunes are instantly forgettable, and when it's a tune one knows, the words are "new and improved" crap.
Sometimes you want to wave a $20 bill at the organist and say "HERE take this, but we HAVE to sing "Holy God, we Praise thy Name" or something known to Catholics -- OR USED to be known to Catholics, so seldom have the old tunes been sung in the last 30 years it's a miracle anyone knows them now.
Enjoy this one:
I'm voting Democrat
Mark - I'd be ROFLMAO if it wasn't so true... Love the RN "Free is better than quality anytime"
Gem - You know what I'd like to hear? O God Beyond All Praising. It was the recessional at the Pope's New York Mass and I didn't realize it had other words and was sung at Princess Di's funeral.
And all those arguments about decent music being too hard. What a load. We had a 7th grade choir and an 8th grade choir at my Catholic school and we sang chant and polyphony quite well.
Ladies, ladies, your claws are showing!
Certainly chant (especially Russian) is glorious. Even though they are schmaltzy, many Euro-Americans love the 19th century Romantic Ave Marias, Panis Angelicus, and others; indeed, they are my personal favorites. But remember that Pius X disagreed rather assertively.
None of that makes the music of charismatic or ethnic Catholics wrong/bad/heretical. If it sounds strange to Euro-American ears, is that a surprise? If much of the new music is banal, is that a surprise (90% + of all music is banal when written -- we simply have filtered out the banal from 100, 200, 300... years ago)?
How about we let the charismatic and ethnic Catholics have their music. If we personally don't care for it, fine. But ridiculing it is just getting snarky.
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