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On the Friday before Spring break, my class on the Bible covered the Psalms, and so the U2 song \u201c40\u201d got a mention. I was apparently the only one there who had ever sung the song in church. I hope that at some point my church may hold a U2charist service. (Yes, that really is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,63],"tags":[958,1880,3181,6710,7803,13064,13065],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-music","tag-bad-puns","tag-church","tag-eucharist","tag-lords-supper","tag-music","tag-u2","tag-u2charist"],"yoast_head":"\n
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