here is generally a thought: westerners /must/ get rid of the "we're going to die :(" impulse anytime that anything happens in world geopolitics. one, it's not true: most of the time you likely aren't. two, things are in fact going to Keep Happening, so you might as well steel yourself a bit more
local catholic writes a book where most prayer is in sung form, like, uh, most catholic prayer,
i do find the whole way people claim that people in middle earth don't pray a little bit funny. what do you think the elves singing to varda are doing