Not the best Taize service ever

Taize service left a little to be desired last night. Actually, that is a little unfair, it was mostly good and fairly well polished (a few slow starts but we sped up once the singers came in) but one chant in particular let us down. Near the end we sang 'veni sancte spiritus', Rachel plucked the notes on her guitar and we started, I couldn't get my note and felt myself flush very red as I shook my head in horror. We stopped and she gave us our notes again. I was singing the same notes and felt ridiculous, it didn't sound right at all but we soldiered on regardless. Fortunately for me (but not for Martin) I was not singing the first cantor part, Martin was, and he couldn't get his note either so warbled around making something up that didn't seem right at all. Then it was my turn to sing cantor (I was wildly praying someone would have stopped the whole farce before I had to embarrass myself) and a bar or two in Jane stopped us again. It turns out Rachel had given us an A minor instead of an A by accident... after getting the correct notes we started for a third time and all was well, though confidence shaken my cantor still left a little to be desired!!

Aside from that disasterous moment the service ran smoothly and I hope we were able to provide a quiet contemplative space for prayer. As a part of a group leading you never can quite judge how things have gone, I feel. No one seemed to notice that my prayers were blatantly thieved by typing 'intercessions remembrance sunday' into google, though I think I'll write my own next time then I won't feel quite so fraudulent. It's not so easy to pray when you feel like a fraud!