We had the same reading at St. Teresa's Catholic Church, and I think Garrison Keillor will tell you they had the same one at Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church. I told the lector, a 7th-grade girl, that she was supposed to yell at the people like Amos did. You have to take the reading in context. In last week's reading, Amos was complaining how the wealthy people were living lives of luxury and cheating the poor (almost like "Rigs of the Time"). The reading this week is a little problematic when taken out of context. One commentary I use said this:

Where the poor rarely ate meat and were fortunate occasionally to add fish to their simple diet of bread, the rich feasted on tender young lambs. In addition, they also had a penchant for calves fed only with milk and confined to their stalls lest their meat become toughened (v. 4). (Veal was as popular and controversial then as now!) Untroubled by financial worries, the rich were free to while away their leisure time making up their own songs and devising their own accompaniments Probably the reference to David (v. 5) was an ironic comparison; while the great king had made music as a prayer to God, the rich used it for their own enjoyment. Wine drunk from bowls and anointing with fine oils added to the luxuriating atmosphere of the exorbitant lifestyle.
As God's prophet, Amos viewed these extravagances as divinely intolerable. What the people perceived as evidence of political stability, Amos understood as religious complacency and imbalance. The prophet's words virtually drip with the disgust he felt at such insensitivity. [The Sanchez Archives, National Catholic Reporter].

Our lector did a pretty darn good job, although I teased her that she wasn't quite mean enough when she yelled at the people.

In our parish, you could have played your dulcimer with as much passion and improvisation as you pleased, and we would have loved it. I'd be surprised if anybody would complain at your church, either.

-Joe-