Mass This Evening

So, the Introit is sung, the antiphon with verses from the psalm, and the doxology.
(And then, of course, the antiphon again.)
And all this is sung... well, antiphonally.
And the diction and pace are excellent.
Unaccompanied, two very fine voices,* calling back and forth to each other across that immense church.
And the procession moved more solomenly than was its wont.
And everything went well, and prayerfully, and the congregation fell into the spirit of it and then...
"Well, that certainly was SOLEMN!!!! Which is okay, but how can we help but be a little livelier after the week we've had? Don't ya just wanna shout "Howdy?" Why don't you do that, turn to the person next to ya and tell'em 'howdy!'"

And that is how things go, in my part of the world.

How about you?


*Yeah, yeah, one was mine. But no sense in false modesty.