Modern or traditional?

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Do you like your church to look new and modern, or traditional and old? What does yours look like, and does it differ from what you would want? Do you prefer singing hymns with a choir, or a few singers singing pop songs (personal shudder, sorry!!). What's your balance? What do you like to see when you worship? I love the look of my church. It's so medieval. For me, the more medieval it is, the better--in appearance, in teaching, and in ritual. I love the "smells and bells," as my father calls them. Give me candles and choir, censer and cymbals. A few times I've been to churches where they sing pop songs, and it drives me nuts. However I DID like a place I went to that had the traditional hymn lyrics with different, soft rock type music (it was an involvement mass for teens). Personally I think it's a tragedy when a church REPLACES traditional, important hymns with pop music (adding it elsewhere is different), ESPECIALLY during the sacred rites. I'm fairly sure any Archbishop would be supremely dissatisfied.