Our Archdeacon wouldn't let me read the KJM one Christmas, and I had to learn the new passage, but if you do it right, the " and they were .. terrified " bit IS more direct than, "they were sore afraid", if you pause a heartbeat longer, before terrified.
ne of my fave things in recordings is that group who do things to plain chant, like the Weather report, the Customs act, etc.
the Litany in the old Anglican liturgy is full of great stuff,
Did a few Synod services in my time as a chorister!
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