I posted previously about some of the (in my opinion) nonesense I encounter in college occasionally about “churchmanship”. (There’s a previous post about not putting books on the communion table.) Well here’s another one for you.
I took morning prayers a couple of weeks back. It was a beautiful spring morning so I wanted a really good praise worthy hymn. I chose “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” and thought nothing of it.
After prayers one of the lecturers came and had a word. “You know that you shouldn’t have hymns with ‘Alleluia’ in during lent. We shouldn’t be saying ‘Alleluia’ until Easter.”
A new one on me again. Though I have to say I follow the logic. There is something about letting rip with lots of Alleluias on Easter Day.
I thought that Sundays didn’t count as Lent, so if it was a Sunday then Alleluia is OK! But as TB said, Am I bovvered?