It's our recessional this weekend.
ministers walking out
We've used "O SACRED HEAD" a lot during Lent.
As many will know, the tune has an interesting history (seems to have been a waltz originally)
but this seems like an example of what Dr. Mahrt and Dr. Skeris have talked about --- how what is originally a secular tune can be "elevated" over the centuries once it loses those associations.
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