THIS.
this is pretty much what I think of ridiculous liturgical mutilations like "teen Masses":
"I don’t know about your church, but in the last thirty years mine has gone through an exhausting experimentation process of trying to make special services for 'young people'. We’ve been dragged through the antechamber of musical and liturgical hell in pursuit of crowds of keening teenagers who might some day all proclaim with one enthusiastic voice, that this or that service is 'cool'. Invariably, the young people demur and if pressed will shrug with a touch of embarrassment that the 'Contemporary Worship Service music is kind of, well, lame.' We need to give them more credit that if kids are in Church, they are there as part of the Body of Worshippers and they are willing to join themselves to however the other sheep are bleating. We have a Gregorian Chant revival going on in the Catholic Church..."
-Barbara Nicolosi, from her blog "Church of the Masses", September 25th.
"I don’t know about your church, but in the last thirty years mine has gone through an exhausting experimentation process of trying to make special services for 'young people'. We’ve been dragged through the antechamber of musical and liturgical hell in pursuit of crowds of keening teenagers who might some day all proclaim with one enthusiastic voice, that this or that service is 'cool'. Invariably, the young people demur and if pressed will shrug with a touch of embarrassment that the 'Contemporary Worship Service music is kind of, well, lame.' We need to give them more credit that if kids are in Church, they are there as part of the Body of Worshippers and they are willing to join themselves to however the other sheep are bleating. We have a Gregorian Chant revival going on in the Catholic Church..."
-Barbara Nicolosi, from her blog "Church of the Masses", September 25th.