Our Bishop commented on the active participation of the people at the Cathedral last Palm Sunday. Usually when chanting his dialogues, His Excellency is slightly removed from the people in the sanctuary (which sadly has some acoustically-deadening substances such as carpet and a back wall that was intended to limit reverb, which may make the people's strong responses seem less strong to him). However, on Palm Sunday, standing in the midst of the congregation and chanting the Sign of the Cross and dialogues and hearing the people's responses really resounded with him. He was thrilled with how people responded to both his responses and the deacon's chanted responses before/after the beginning-of-Mass Gospel reading.

The best way to experience how musical formation works is to go somewhere where it is working and experience it firsthand and then go backwards from there and find out how things came to be that way.