U2 songs used in American Episcopal services.
AMERICAN Episcopal churches are reporting large attendances to "U2 Eucharists" which
use the songs of the rock band as a means of exploring the Christian
faith. At All Saints' Church in Atlanta, Georgia, organisers had
planned for 300 worshippers and instead had to contend with 500,
while at the Grace Episcopal Church in Providence, Rhode Island, as
many people turned up for a Friday night U2 Eucharist as normally turn up on a
Sunday morning. U2
songs such as "Beautiful Day", "Pride" and "Peace On Earth" are used
in a Eucharist service devised by the Rev Paige Blair, a parish
priest in York Harbor, Maine and has spread through word of mouth and
clerical websites. 
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I am so proud to be a member of the Episcopal Church when I read articles like this. I have found the archaic music of the hymnals nearly painful and impossible to join in.