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newminster	Monday, 7. May 2007, 15:35
Unregistered	Strangely enough, Derek, that is exactly where the disruption comes from in our parish also only we don't have a choir loft so they are sitting close to the door where the welcomers are also holding conversations about Aunt Minnie's arthritis with their friends as they come in and the whole thing spreads insidiously along the aisle. I did manage to persuade our PP to ask for a certain amount of respect from those who were coming in to Mass while a dozen of us are saying Morning Prayer and holding audible conversations at the back of the church. Oddly enough the major culprit was one of the choir and the same lady who is in the habit of hitting the override button on the heating if she feels a bit chilly. Needless to say she doesn't switch it off again on her way out! I say all this because it seems that there is a small group, probably in most parishes, who seem to think that the normal standards of bahviour in church don't apply to them. In my experience the choir are the worst followed by the welcomers (and not just the weeks when it's their turn to welcome, either!) Please, at the very least, let us have the five minutes before Mass for some quiet converse with God. It surely is not much to ask.
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