Faith Hill: Where Are You, Christmas?
12 years ago
Monday, August 2, 2010
Really, sitting works just as well
Why are some people so utterly insistent about standing for intermediate hymns? I mean, i get that in some congregations the tradition is to stand for them, but the way some people (often choristers, actually) act, you’d think a congregation not standing for a song that happens to be wedged between speakers was a symbol of mass apostasy.
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Thankfully our music leader never makes us stand. It's such a pain to stand and really pointless. In a previous ward the music leader made us stand every week. I hated that.
We never stand. I would welcome it, actually. It makes it easier to slip out the door if it looks like the concluding speaker is going to be a yawner.
@John: Okay, i admit it—you’ve given a really, really good reason for the standing. I may have to rethink this one.
The last time I led the congregation in Sacrament Meeting music, the brother who was going to speak after the intermediate hymn mouthed, "Thank you" to me after I had the congregation stand up.
When I was Sacrament Meeting music leader for the first time, I could never remember to have the congregation stand and my father always complained about how much he wanted to get the chance to stand, so we worked it out that he would just stand up, which would remind me and I would then motion for the rest of the congregation to stand up.
As far as I'm concerned, doesn't confront me either way. I just get tired of listening to my husband complain about it...
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