Someone at our little church replaced the organ with a “Mr Rogers Neighborhood”-style piano and TRIED to include hand clapping to certain hootenanny sing-a-long songs. There is nothing sacred or inspiring about it. If I hear “soon and very soon, I’m gonna see the king...” at Holy Communtion one more time...!!
“Communtion”=Communion - thinking of our local church music gets me crazy!
Eeek! That borders on sacrilege!
Our former pastor finally solved this raging controversy over Communion songs and hymns - none. Total silence during the entire time, not even soft organ music in the background. It’s heavenly, you can actually pray.
Now we are getting a new priest, however, so the musicians are scheming. For some reason, very few priests have the balls to go up against the “music ministry.”