There are so few music graduates, known by their names, who work for the Church nowadays, so that the questions arises: do we need music in our Church? Absolutely yes! The Church needs this music and this should be the music of high quality! It needs the music of the highest artistic level, yet which, at the same time, is the music of a prayer. For during the liturgy prayer we stand in front of God Himself. In doing this we are like Moses who heard: put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are stand¬ing is holy ground. The Church needs the music of the greatest standard.
The Church music depends on many factors. It certainly depends on a good relationship between a parish priest and an organist, or even a conduc¬tor, on their good manners, sense of beauty, the ability to cope with human weaknesses and prejudices. If at this basic level a "truce" is made, it is the first big step towards peace. Such basic unity may then guarantee the inte¬grity of music in liturgy.
What is necessary in promoting liturgical music is good taste and intu¬ition. We should also remember that we live in the age unfavorable to music, when it is being removed from its natural educational environment, that is, school; this creates a big challenge for the Church, to form and educate thro¬ugh music those who participate in liturgy. Perhaps more care for the Church music should be given by contemporary composers so that they wo¬uld avoid too much secular taste and style in liturgy.
There is so much to be done to understand that the Church music is the way of man's education, and that it is also the way of pastoral life of the Church. It is so easy to complain; far more difficult it is to seek and find new ways of development. Through good music we can get closer to the values offered by religion. For good music brings us the message of faith. Music helps to seek God, and through good music God gives His grace to people gathered during celebration.
To finish, let the words by God's Servant John Paul II be uttered strongly here, when he wrote in his letter to artists: The Church needs musi¬cians... in song, faith is experienced as vibrant joy, love, and confident expectation of the saving intervention of God12. Thus the Church needs music but also mu¬sic needs the Church. May we do everything so as to make those two realit¬ies constantly meet. Only in this way will music integrate with liturgy. And the Church will return to ideals of the first Christians, who gathered for the mutual prayer singing psalms, hymns and songs full of Spirit.

(tł. Agnieszka Stańczyk)