[NYer]

Here's an opportunity to sound off ... just how bad is it in your parish?

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[sitetest]

Dear NYer,

This isn't something typically seen in the churches which I attend in the Archdioceses of Washington or Baltimore. Maybe at a wedding or a funeral, that's about it. Even then, perhaps not. A friend of mine died in the spring, and the priest who celebrated the Memorial Mass didn't do this.

I can't even remember the last time I saw this in my own area.


sitetest

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

In Chicago I know that Cardinal George is allowing Priests to leave the sanctuary to share the "kiss of peace." I don't have a problem when it is tastefully done, and my priest does do it tastefully, he will shake the hands of a few people and then he returns to the sanctuary. We have one priest who at Daily Mass shakes the hand of everyone who is sitting off of the Middle Aisle. Of Course, Daily Mass is probably a little different and attendance is much lower. Anyway, that is what I see at my parish here in Chicago.

God Bless

[.45MAN]

Not too bad where I am now but when we were looking for a church tht we approved of it was unreal. in some people were getting out of the pews and running aroung all over the place to shake hands. I do not move from my position and I do not turn around if I can help it I will nod is I make eye contact.