Saturday, September 9, 2017

Pavlovian congregants

Does "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring," played on the organ, make anyone besides me hungry for communion wafers?  At Mass, during the early to mid '80s, that was the organist's default communion hymn.  Consequently, any other hymn, no matter how reverential, played during communion would be as out of place to me as "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."