Shantigarh

Palm Sunday 2010

Gathering Outside (before blessing of palms):  Time of Fulfillment - James Chepponis, 1994 GIA.  We sing all verses adding alto, tenor, bass, ad seriatum.

Processional:  Prepare Ye the Way - Michael W. Smith, Word Music

 We have been using this as our recessional for three weeks in the hopes that, by Palm Sunday, there will be no need of worship aids.  People will just be able to sing it.  Our motto is "If you can't sing it right, sing it wrong."  (That's the motto for congregation…

What a smart move.  Every year Palm Sunday catches us by surprise and we are reminded how badly some people process and sing at the same time.  People from Mexico seem to have this skill.  The secret, apparently, is that everybody just keeps singing.  Doesn't matter that the people at the head of the line are on verse 2 and the people at the back are on verse 1.  Walk, sing, walk, sing.  People from, say, Sherman Oaks, don't have (or have lost) this elemental skill.  At St. Bernardine, folks are pretty…