Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
In last time we were discussing relativism, a mentality that traps people without them knowing, making them believe that everything is good, this causes a conformity that harms in the long run. This time we’ll be discussing relativism in religious music. Regarding choirs in church, we can also see this trend of relativism. Some choirs sing protestant chants for the mass, mixing what is the most sacred to our faith with Protestant mentality. They don’t do this to cause any harm, they just simply don’t know that it is not allowed. It is a reality that protestant sects seek to discredit the Catholic Church to gain followers. Some extremist protestant mentality goes as far as qualifying our Church the great Babylon, insulting the Church with harsh expressions therefore anything they may offer cannot be compatible with our faith.
It is very common that Catholics attend Protestant singers concerts, arguing that it is the same God. However, I've never seen a protestant sing catholic songs, especially those dedicated to our Blessed Mother or that speak about the glory of the Eucharist. Could it be that they are actually more intelligent and they take care of their spirituality by not contaminating it with things outside of what they believe in?
The first thing that we have to understand is the meaning of the word truth: St. Thomas Aquinas states that truth is "the conformity of the mind to the object"; that is, if we accept the outward information that our senses are transmitting to our intellect, and our intellect accepts these as they are, and doesn't deny them or distort them, through self interest or other motives. "The true and the false reside not in things, but in the intellect." In the next opportunity we’ll see the 3 ways to understand human beings, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, taking it from Aristoteles model.
United in Christ Missionary,
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