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To: NYer

This summer, while on vacation, I attended a parish I have never been to before.

The priest in confession was what you would expect a priest to be: pastoral, caring, etc. The music at Mass, however, was terrible. The entrance hymn was Amazing Grace. Okay, a Protestant hymn, but not bad. What was weird was that it was played to the melody of “The House of the Rising Sun”.

Yes, except for the words, it sounded just like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C86oH5RwyJg


5 posted on 11/29/2009 12:52:27 PM PST by vladimir998
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What was weird was that it [Amazing Grace] was played to the melody of “The House of the Rising Sun”.

I have only heard that setting in the context of prison ministry, wherein it makes a certain amount of sense.

93 posted on 11/30/2009 8:25:50 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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