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Ship of Fools: St Jude, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

The Mystery WorshipperThe Mystery Worshipper Shipmate
edited August 2022 in The Mystery Worshipper
imageShip of Fools: St Jude, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Wonderful singing, but all the hymns were cut down to the bare minimum

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  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Nice external architecture of the church.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    It's certainly striking!

    A good MW Report, though I share @Paterfamilias' exasperation at the shortening of hymns...

    Although Our Place is C of E, a former churchwarden was given to instructing organist and cantors (myself and a couple of others) to cut a long hymn short in order *not to keep the priest waiting*.

    He would do this by leaving the chancel (he was Head Server) and coming to the organ in the south aisle, and issuing his orders in a loud whisper. Most annoying, and confusing to the heartily-singing Faithful when the hymn abruptly stopped.
    :grimace:
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    It's certainly striking!A good MW Report, though I share @Paterfamilias' exasperation at the shortening of hymns...

    Most annoying, and confusing to the heartily-singing Faithful when the hymn abruptly stopped.
    Not to mention how cutting the hymn short is potentially damaging to the poetry of the hymn; at the least, it is dismissive of it, and of the value of the assembly’s participation.

    Meanwhile, a 19-minute homily in a Catholic church. That’s notable.

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Not to mention also the teaching of the hymn, as well as the poetry...


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