Father forgot to proclaim “Alleluia! Christ Is Risen!” Me and one other guy in the choir, (a paid singer but he’s ok, and a liturgical purist) noticed. Then he started tbe homily with the proclamation... I don’t know if that was planned as the first line, or if he was making up for missing it, but me and the other guy sang out “The Lord Is Risen Indeed!” and then everybody in the choir turned and looked at us. We were proud of ourselves and quietly high fived after the attention passed.
Liturgically this Triduum has been the biggest train wreck I’ve ever seen, but I don’t really mind. Staff meeting this week should be really long, and really painful. But it’s a complicated liturgy, we have a new Parish Administrator, and the church is only about twenty years old. I think we were under-rehearsed for the Anglican Chants, and we had like four or five canticles tonight plus three anthems and about five hymns.
But again, I really don’t mind. This isn’t the kind of thing I’d leave a church for — this is the kind of thing where I want to be there and be part of the solution. As my new buddy noted, it’s got problems, but it’s the best liturgy in town.
As our choirmaster says, as long as nobody dies, we're ahead.