Monday, 8 October 2007

Banishing irreverence

While browsing through the ecclesiastical laws that govern the Church I recently discovered Canon B20.3 (the italics are mine)...
It is the duty of the minister to ensure that only such chants, hymns,
anthems, and other settings are chosen as are appropriate, both the words
and the music, to the solemn act of worship and prayer in the House of
God as well as to the congregation assembled for that purpose; and to
banish all irreverence in the practice and in the performance of the same.
I shall be watching!
;-)