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Mass was annoying this morning. The assistant priest was going it alone this morning and had his usual too-long sermon (sometimes I think he thinks he's at a Baptist church!) at the 9:30, which delayed the organist/choirmaster getting into rehearsal even longer than usual. Meanwhile whilst I hold down the fort, I was having to find the music to rehearse, since no one had bothered to put today's music into my folder. Hymns were ok....more of the old standard Protestant tunes with weird Catholic words....and we did Faure's Cantique de Jean Racine for the offertory and John Rutter's God Be in My Head for communion. I was busy reviewing my French for the anthem during the sermon, so I can't comment on the quality of the priest's long chat. :-)