"Hallelujah"

by Michael Sean Winters

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Everyone by now has seen the video of Fr. Ray Kelly singing a revised version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at a wedding in Ireland. It's just great - not only does he make the wedding couple happy, he makes many liturgists disgruntled. A two-fer. 

But, it is heresy to think that anyone, including Fr. Kelly, can sing Cohen's classic as well as k.d.lang, although I suppose she is unlikely to ever sing it at a Catholic Mass. In any event, here it is: 

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