[Jeff Chandler]

We should stay to the end of the recession and the hymn that accompanies it,

I learned that it is appropriate to wait until the priest has left. The hymn has nothing to do with it.

[NKP_Vet]

“I learned that it is appropriate to wait until the priest has left. The hymn has nothing to do with it”

You’re exactly right. But most priests leave while the last hymn is being sung.