... in the diocese of Passau, a friend recently noted in an interview. And it seems that he has not so wrong. Officially, this fact confirms semi private observation by a statistic that was published these days on the diocese's own HOMEPAGE .
are therefore in a variety of church music groups of the Diocese of total 12 512 people active, distributed as follows:
263 adult choirs: 5899 (47.1%);
102 children choirs: 1,852 (14.8%);
91 instrumental groups / NGL: 1,827 (14.6%);
80 youth choirs: 1,335 (10.7%);
72 Wind Ensemble: 1,442 (11.5%);
8 small groups of children: 129 (1.0%);
Choralschola 5: 28 (0.2%) .
"can build diocesan music director Dr. Marius Schwemmer with great volunteer work when he tells those impressive numbers," writes the diocese. In fact, "significant numbers", which by the Second Vatican Council so clearly required care concerns of Gregorian chant as the "mother of all church music." Even the toddlers musicians exceed Choral singers in number by five times. As you wonder nothing more in terms of the parlous state of the church music in this country.
"The Church considers the Gregorian chant as the song of the Roman liturgy, therefore he is liturgical in their actions, take if, moreover, are given the same conditions, the first place."
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Constitution on the Sacred LiturgyWhere are the council Saner connoisseur?
"Sacrosanctum Concilium" No. 116
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