In most churches, the best we have accepted to hope from the music leadership is that they teach us HOW to participate in songs. Usually, this is done with loud instrumental support, hinting we should sing along… In better situations, group rehearsals are organized to show HOW to sing.

But rarely the leadership explains WHY we sing what we sing. Yet most parishes have a website and/or a youtube channel, and could follow this fine example of a music director doing his job: explaining congregations WHY we sing what we sing. Let us hope to see many more such efforts in our parishes very soon….