All these years later… For some reason I had a video running through my mind and I simply had to look it up. Unfortunately, after much tracking I discovered that the original long-form video I had seen in 2011 no longer exists. Instead, a shorter version is available.
The video is of a Mass in Olympic Stadium, Berlin celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. The part in question is whatever passes for the offertory at Novus Ordo Masses. Thereason it has stayed with me all these years? It’s funny as hell. Oh I wish the whole thing were online just for that groovy, chillaxy muzak. Don’t get me wrong, I’m actually a fan of authentic Muzak but this stuff is pure schlock (to borrow a German sounding word). Don’t believe me? Go to the about 1:46 in the video below and have a listen. Then, imagine that “song” playing for another 2 full minutes.
UPDATE: I had always remembered this as the offertory of the Mass but I found at least one source claiming this to have been the “musical interlude” of the “opening part” of Mass.
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