The Bible and Music

I personally enjoyed the cantor lecture most because of the comparisons and contrasts between Jewish tradition and my own Catholic experience. One of the biggest differences I noticed was that Jewish services are still sung in Hebrew whereas most Catholic masses have all but forgotten Latin. Catholic churches mainly reserve Latin for he most formal holy days, and sometimes not even then. There are really only a handful of Catholic churches in North America that still say full Latin masses. Even though Catholics don’t sing in the traditional language of their religion they still rely on music not only to move the service along but to also celebrate their tradition much like Giora Sharon said in his lecture.