And people lob (German pun alert) at Alstott such sturm und drang, kvetching und moaning, and howls of derisive laughter for R&A settings. Cologne or AnTWERP, somethin's fragrance was over-ripened in that setting. YMMV...
That reminds me: could we use YMMV instead of YHWH? "Yahmov, I know You are near..." Just asking.
My new medium-term goal: to have increasingly little--and eventually nothing--to do with liturgies that use microphones for anything except the sermon (and the vernacular non-ceremonial reading of the lections). Singing into microphones is fine for pop music. It's violently awful in church. Cut the cord. Switch it off.
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