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| Topic Started: Monday, 7. May 2007, 14:16 (581 Views) | |
| Rose of York | Monday, 7. May 2007, 21:58 Post #16 |
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What happened to genuflection? Hardly anybody in our church bothers. I feel the very act of walking up the aisle, pausing, looking at the tabernacle, and genuflecting (or, if unable, formally bowing) gives us a moment of self discipline, to remember where we are and why. Katy, would it be beneficial to teach the children to genuflect - or perhaps you have already done that. |
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| Em. | Monday, 7. May 2007, 22:04 Post #17 |
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I tell you what annoys me as well. Our Church is a few yards from a pub. Some men come a few minutes before the Holy Eucharist is given out, and soon afterwards they leave the Church, and when the Mass is finished, you will see them in the pub again. I think that is an abuse. Now, Good night all |
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| K.T.B. | Monday, 7. May 2007, 22:06 Post #18 |
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Yes, Rose, I'm trying, but I seem to be the only one who is! :angry: |
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| Rose of York | Monday, 7. May 2007, 23:24 Post #19 |
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I got into serious trouble for being quiet in church! On the Sunday following a family death I arrived at church early, and had a bright idea. I thought "If I kneel down and close my eyes nobody will bother me". Fat chance! She Who Must Be Obeyed tried to talk to me. She wanted me to attend a particular Day of Prayer, and had something she wanted me to do. I asked if we could talk after Mass, I was trying to pray for a family member who had died recently. When Mass was over I asked what she wanted me to do. Her reply really floored me. "Nothing. Nothing now. There are times when I find you very abrupt. You refused to talk to me before Mass." Dear Rose responded "Ah, am I to be excluded from the life of the parish because you find me abrupt? That is not acceptable among Christians. You must not exclude me". By then I was rather enjoying myself. It transpired that She Who Must Be Obeyed had not realised I was trying to pray. Why wouldn't she realise it? Does she think I kneel down with my eyes shut all day, every day? |
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| newminster | Monday, 7. May 2007, 23:49 Post #20 |
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Probably worried that you'd use up all your prayers before you got to her Day of Prayer which was of infinitely greater importance because it was hers. Why, oh why, do so many of our threads -- on silence in church, on translations, on EMHCs, on Communion services, on so many other things -- come back to the same common factor, a bunch of probably well-meaning but certainly self-opinonated laymen, or more often (sorry, ladies), lay women who think they own the Church, the priest, the parish and all that therein is? Perhaps it's about time I discarded the tin hat and the kevlar jacket and stood up and said bluntly that a very large proportion of the problems the Catholic Church in Britain is facing at the moment is caused by a small coterie of the laity with whom (in the secular sense only, you understand) the Church could well do without.
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| Timothy | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 00:01 Post #21 |
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Either people genuflect or they regrettably don't. However please DO NOT on no circumstance (unless for a genuine reason!) do not do a "semi-genuflect" almost a quick courtesy to the Lord. In my opinion when I see young, fit and healthy people doing the "semi-genuflection" it seems inappropriate, as if they are giving something, but not everything. It might not be seen by many to be important but arriving into Church should be a time when people are focused. |
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"An adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelty." "Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labelled as fundamentalism." Pope Benedict XVI | |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 01:31 Post #22 |
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Carlo, there are only two methods I know of, of determining (or guessing) whether a person belongs to what you describe as a category. The methods are: Medical examination or Seeing them stark naked. You cannot be sure who has what problem. There are priests who (unlawfully) insist that disabled people who feel the need to have Holy Communion taken to them, sit together, segregated from the rest of the congregation, often in strange locations in the building. |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 01:38 Post #23 |
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A very courteous gentleman who attends Mass in our church never makes a noise. He is a fine example to all the congregation. The gentleman is six years old. His mother and grandmother have taught him how to behave in church. Sometimes he reads, sometimes he crayons what he sees at church, occasionally he plays, quietly, with a little plastic car. At the consecration, he kneels and bows his head. He told me "That's when Jesus comes, he looks like bread but he is there." |
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| newminster | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 16:42 Post #24 |
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Or 'sacristan's dip', as it's sometimes known! :D |
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| Em. | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 16:52 Post #25 |
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I used to do a sacristan's dip when the trousers I was wearing was too tight. (Now, this is going to be deleted)
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| Timothy | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 17:13 Post #26 |
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Perhaps there is a reason for it then...... |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 19:26 Post #27 |
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fibber.
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| pete | Tuesday, 8. May 2007, 21:37 Post #28 |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770 You can find further comments on this site |
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| PJD | Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 19:21 Post #29 |
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Em: "Some men come a few minutes before the Holy Eucharist is given out, and soon afterwards they leave the Church" I believe I'm may be correct in saying that if this is so they haven't been to Mass. PJD |
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| Em. | Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 19:46 Post #30 |
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That is correct. Just come in once a week for a top up, to put is crudely. |
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