I say the Our Father several times per day and on the few occasions when Mr. M goes to Mass with me I rejoice that I can pray while holding his hand. We also kiss afterwards which I am sure is not in the Roman Missal.
Why stop at kissing?
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The above is not in the Roman Missal either.
Don't you see that you have just changed your focus from the altar and what occurred there moments before - that Christ has just been made present, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity - and redirected it to each other?
It's just not the time or the place for PDA.
How sweet.
However, the Mass was not always about spousal moments, pleasantries, affections, or greeting rows of individuals during the Mass.
We have fallen hard and fast in our obvious attractions for and imitations of the Protestants preferences for how we “feel”, including primarily the warm and fuzzies.
Ridiculous.