Gregorian Chant vs Contemporary Christian Music
Left, Medieval monks singing Gregorian chant, the proper way to praise God, right, modernist so-called ''Christian songs'' that Protestants and Novus Ordoites love to listen. Antonio Jose Rubi From the days of the early Christian church, Christians has always worshipped God through music. Even in the Old Testament, there were songs praising God, as in the case of King David and his Psalms. The current form of Catholic music is the Gregorian chant, which was formed and named in honor of Pope Saint Gregory, and also Greek and Slavonic chants for the Eastern Rites, as well as non-Latin Catholic hymns sung at mass. However, following the Protestant Reformation, Christian music slowly became slowly modern. Protestant music from the 16 th to the early 20 th century, were so very conservative and so...