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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Odds are, about halfway through "Holy is the Temple," you're going to be ready for a departure. Here's a rousing one in the form of an essay by Michael Inman, "A Liturgical Guitarist Reformed":
About a week before I sat down to write this I was cleaning out a bookshelf and came across my old "Glory & Praise" hymnals. I thought to myself, "I'm not just going to throw these away. No, this hideous collection of Barney Songs deserves to be burned!" Actually, I apologize to the Barney Show. Their songs are much better. So we rolled the 55 gallon drum away from the garage, tossed in the old Christmas tree that was laying behind the garage, and set 'er ablaze. Tearing off a few pages at a time Janet and I read aloud the song titles with exaggerated groans and expressions of disgust as we threw them in to their proper fate. The "performance notes" were the funniest. One suggested that, for "movement", the performing ensemble could circle the altar holding hands during the singing of a particular "Lamb of God". While singing the notes gave a suggested dance step involving sliding one foot and bringing the other over in slow steps while the group circled round the altar. It was truly a pleasure watching the purging fire consume the scourge of Catholic hymnody worldwide…
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