Ostrowski has a point.
NOTHING MAKES a Church musician tremble
like a parishioner saying: “Why don’t you do more music that people
enjoy?” After all, in the year 2014 our decisions are increasingly
governed by polls, and we’ve become accustomed to them....
Yah, but....
...Only a fool would give his students a “survey” to determine what he
should teach them. Only a quack would give his patients a “poll” to
determine what treatment he should prescribe for them. Tastes often
change with time. Furthermore, the tastes of Person A, Person B, and
Person C often conflict. When it comes to the sacred liturgy, polls and
surveys are ultimately irrelevant, in spite of the fact that admitting
this can make a person sound arrogant and dismissive. In fact, the
Catholic Faith has never been a numbers game (cf. Jn 6:67),...
My current parish utilizes the "poll" method of music-selection, as do most others. What Ostrowski doesn't mention is the other manifestation of that phenomenon: the total and complete absence of moral instruction on artificial birth control from the pulpit.
'Tis the same thing, ya'know.
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Is it not a man's duty and privilege to extend physical pleasures to his wife outside of procreative process?
Wherein does the Christ forbid the use of prophylactics in the Holy Scriptures? Do the Epistles expound on this?
In the case (evident) that you don't know this, "Sola Scriptura" was invented from whole cloth by a heretic, Martin Luther.
As to your argument from nature, it demonstrates an ignorance which is willfully blind. Procreation and 'extending pleasure to the wife' are physically inseparable, although by nature, some of those acts are not fruitful.
Cute, too, the way you place it all on the wife's libido. We call that hypocrisy.
What you know about Christianity couldn't fill a thimble. But nice try, Daddio.
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