Remarkable

I attended an Evensong service last night, and it was just brilliant.  Mostly sung, by the choir, even the Apostle's Creed.  We - the handful that of congregants was there, in a Church near where I live - spoke only a few prayers, but they were the way up on the top of my list.  The Lord's Prayer, at first said by the congregation, later choir-sung (without the doxology at the end, which I often omit - it's how we spoke it in boarding school.)   And a general confession that I really love, from my childhood, with this:

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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done;
And we have done those things which we ought not to have done;
And there is no health in us.
But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders.

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Just knocks me out.  Is it some kind of masochism?  I don't think so.  Incredibly honest, say I.