The Pope wears his hat in church.
What's up with that?
I am amazed at how many people bow to the altar when the tabernacle is in a side chapel.
My buddy was an altarboy. He told how he would hold the offering basket right in front of a skin flint until everyone became completely uncomfortable. The pews hated him, ,, the priests thought he was awesome.
Good job Jimmy. ..
Good list. Just sent it to my priest.
#11, 12 & 20 are all along the same idea. All ignored the past decade, at least, as far as I can tell.
I’ll admit it... I love to read the bulletin in mass.
22. And absolutely, positively, if at all possible...do NOT fart in church.
6. Dress modestly and appropriately.
One of the sad social changes in my opinion, is how people don’t dress for church anymore.
OMG young people nowadays don’t know what Sunday best means, becsse they grew up in a time in which people don’t get dressed up for church.
Tee shirts, flip flops, tennis shorts, tennis shoes, tank tops, baseball caps, blue jeans......that’s what people wear to church.
When I was stationed in Germany, a friend of mine invited me to a very conservative Latin mass. Understand that I was on crypto duty and had to be back on base within 20 min so I had a pager to let me know if I was needed. Understand that I was raised Southern Baptist and had never so much as seen the inside of a Catholic church.
Sure enough, in the middle of mass, I got the vibration from the pager and was able to stop it before it started pinging. I quietly moved out of the pew and to a door on the right. At the door, I encountered a nun who was all of 4 foot 2 at the most and 90 years old if she was a day.
Unfortunately, she did not speak English and I did not speak German. The good sister kept whispering and gesturing for me to go back to my seat. However, I needed to get out that door cause I needed to get a cab and get back to base. Well after a couple of minutes of both of us miming our case, I decided that the only way I was going to go out that door was to move the nun and step past her. So I, as gently as I possibly could, picked up the nun and moved her out of my way. Through the door into a very nicely kept garden, a quick turn and out the gate to the street where I grabbed a taxi and was just barely back to the crypto vault in time.
Now for the rest of the story...
I found out later that I had caused quite the scandal. It seems that the door that I left out was reserved for the nuns as it led to the garden that separated the Church from the Convent.
Opps.
Don’t drop the Host. The guy right in front of me did just that last Sunday...yikes! I always recieve on the tongue unless asked not to.
How about don’t touch me during Mass?
I’m going to a friends son’s confirmation in a Catholic church. Any help? I’m Jewish.
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As an usher, time and time again I see people writing out their checks when the collection basket gets to them. Crazy.
I hate to admit that I’m often guilty of running late to Mass (#7).
I naturally abide by the other rules on this list, though.
However, I have to comment on #9 — in crowded Masses, I’ve noticed women with young children standing while perfectly healthy men sit.
I always tried to teach my sons to hold the door for people, especially ladies, and to give up their seats for the elderly, the disabled, and pregnant women or women with young children. But, it’s difficult to get the point across when grown men aren’t doing the same thing. So, I (their mother) sometimes have to be the example - the one holding the door, etc. Times sure have changed.
I can’t count the number of sell phones that have beeped at Mass. I despise these things with a passion. At the funeral Mass for my wife, sure enough.....beep beep beep.
When I was young, Mass wasn’t complete unless an altar boy keeled over. You’d see one kneeling, his back to the congregation, starting to sway a little.........
Concur, and this applies in any event that includes similar seating.
12. Take loud children to the back.
It depends.
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Legalism on parade.
The Pope wears his hat in church.
What's up with that?