We have a congregation that likes to clap at the end of the Mass for the choir as if they were doing a concert. Why can’t choirs just continue soft music as people follow the priest out of Mass??
I do not hold hands during the Our Father, although I get a lot of funny looks and nudges. The Our Father is a prayer between me and God; I don’t need to hold anyone’s hand to say it!
The lack of people praying after receiving Communion also bothers me. Why can’t the choir sisng at the beginning of Communion and be quiet at the end of it? (So that people have a time to pray in silence.)
My parish is mostly old fuddie-duddies like me, most keep their hands to themselves during the Lord’s Prayer. Among family members, yeah, OK, hold hands if you prefer.
There used to be a woman at daily Mass who always, always took the left front pew aisle position. During the Confiteor at the words “and you, my brothers and sisters”, she would turn toward the congregation and extend her outboard hand, like a concelebrant extending his hand. I thought, give me a break!
At least some of the younger priests are trying to undo the liberal excesses of the Sixties & return to traditional rubrics. At the recessional the unspoken hint of this is “We are going to sing every last verse of this hymn and I will not even START down the aisle until well into the last verse and furthermore you will all keep your feet planted until the organist plays the final note!”
By the way, every so often the celebrant has to lecture those who receive Communion & then head for the exits (”How would you like it if I came to your house for dinner & when I was finished eating I just got up and walked out without saying a word!!?”)
;^)