It happens every year, and on the scale of church conflict it can only be compared to an adjustment of the coffee-hour punch recipe without a full congregational vote of approval. Without fail, every single Lent somebody gets upset that the Alleluias have disappeared.
It usually takes a few weeks until someone notices, but invariably somebody asks why we’re not singing the Alleluia after the Gospel reading anymore. It’s as if there has been a horrible, weeks-long typo in the bulletin that nobody has noticed.
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