It can't be required at Mass by anyone on any grounds whatsoever.
the Pastor can specifically request it for all 4 Sundays and then threaten you with termination for insubordination if you don't comply.
But if they sign the pay check, they do have a right to require it.
As for the above opinions that he who writes the check has the 'right' to demand it. This is patently wrong. He has the power - not the right, just as he has the power to forbid chant, but neither the right nor the authority. What's right is what's morally justifiable and done with genuine authority as opposed to imposed by power and position.
Still - if the only thing one had to complain about was singing this hymn one should consider one's self fortunate.
This year, they could be used twice.
, Christmas music has been playing in stores since before Halloween;
I would want to sing...
The sentimentality comment stung a little although I don't think it was meant to- guilty as charged.
But now you've set...
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