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Holding Hands for the "Our Father"

Posted on 07/23/2005 9:15:15 AM PDT by netmilsmom

I have a general question for the Catholics here. How many of you live in a Diocese that openly encourages holding hands for the "Our Father"?

Not in the parishes but the Diocese. I know that St. Louis and Charlotte discourage this practice. How about yours?


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To: netmilsmom
Not in the parishes but the Diocese. I know that St. Louis and Charlotte discourage this practice. How about yours?

The Houston / Galveston Diocese appears to encourage it because it seems that it's expected at my church.

I'm not crazy about it, nor am I nuts about the handshake sign of peace thing.

21 posted on 07/24/2005 4:07:26 AM PDT by Allegra (Less Than 30 Days Until R&R - W'HOOOO!)
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To: All

Thanks everyone!!!


22 posted on 07/24/2005 5:23:38 AM PDT by netmilsmom (God blessed me with a wonderful husband.)
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To: Horatio Gates

LA Diocese encourages holding hands during the Our Father, as did the church we went through RCIA with. I refuse to do it, and I don't like it either. It is touchy-feely. I find that the orthodox churches around here don't do it and the feel-good ones seem to. But you can always pick out the other conservatives, even in the most liberal church (around here) because they won't do it.


23 posted on 07/24/2005 7:24:15 AM PDT by bboop
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To: Allegra

I'm in your diocese Allegra. I can't stand it, especially the "wave" at the end. My son goes to our parish school and I have to reteach him at Mass. I think my parish is bi-polar. On the one hand they have 24/7 Exposition, and then on the other they have stupid folk music on Sundays. Sacred Heart priests, but I don't know if they are conservative or liberal.


24 posted on 07/24/2005 1:45:04 PM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: Conservative til I die
In our parish it seems to be the prerogative of the individual if they wish to hold hands during the Our Father, if relatives or close friends are in my pew, we offer each other our hands.

Same with the Sign of peace, a kiss for close friends and relatives a hand shake for the others.

25 posted on 07/24/2005 1:53:40 PM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsch"....... "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: mware
Same with the Sign of peace, a kiss for close friends and relatives a hand shake for the others.

Soooo......I shouldn't have kissed the blonde next to me and shaken hands with my wife???


26 posted on 07/24/2005 2:09:28 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius

LOL, sure ya could it is okay, but I wouldn't want to have had to sit down at your Sunday dinner.


27 posted on 07/24/2005 2:14:26 PM PDT by mware ("God is dead" -- Nietzsch"....... "Nope, you are"-- GOD)
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To: netmilsmom

It's alive and well in the Sacramento, California diocese! I HATE IT!!!!!


28 posted on 07/24/2005 5:28:02 PM PDT by Macoraba
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To: netmilsmom
I went to Mass today in the LA diocese, I'm visiting a daughter, and just about everyone used the orans position during the Lord's Prayer.
29 posted on 07/24/2005 5:40:24 PM PDT by k omalley (Caro Enim Mea, Vere est Cibus, et Sanguis Meus, Vere est Potus)
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To: Salvation; NYer

Could you please weigh in on this?


30 posted on 07/24/2005 6:49:36 PM PDT by netmilsmom (God blessed me with a wonderful husband.)
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To: Horatio Gates; netmilsmom; american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; ...

5.2  Holding Hands during the Our Father

Holding hands during the Our Father has become commonplace, but it is an illicit addition to the Liturgy. Clarifications and Interpretations of the GIRM ["Notitiae" Vol. XI (1975) p. 226] explains:

". . .holding hands is a sign of intimacy and not reconciliation, and as such disrupts the flow of the Sacramental signs in the Mass which leads to the Sacramental sign of intimacy with Christ and our neighbor, Holy Communion." 

112. QUERY 2: In some places there is a current practice whereby those taking part in the Mass replace the giving of the sign of peace at the deacon's invitation by holding hands during the singing of the Lord's Prayer. Is this acceptable?

REPLY: The prolonged holding of hands is of itself a sign of communion rather than of peace. Further, it is a liturgical gesture introduced spontaneously but on personal initiative; it is not in the rubrics. Nor is there any clear explanation of why the sign of peace at the invitation: "Let us offer each other the sign of peace" should be supplanted in order to bring a different gesture with less meaning into another part of the Mass: the sign of peace is filled with meaning, graciousness, and Christian inspiration. Any substitution for it must be repudiated.

Is Your Mass Valid?

31 posted on 07/24/2005 7:17:52 PM PDT by NYer ("Each person is meant to exist. Each person is God's own idea." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: livius
yet they are never ever held responsible for it. Well, once in a while by greedy trial lawyers...

Maybe we should lobby state legislatures to make "bad liturgy" a tort? :-)

32 posted on 07/24/2005 7:38:59 PM PDT by bourbon (It's the target that decides whether terror wins.)
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To: netmilsmom

At my parish in Mississippi, holding hands during the Our Father is a common (and unfortunate) practice. I'm a recent convert, and I simply can't stand it.


33 posted on 07/24/2005 7:45:26 PM PDT by bourbon (It's the target that decides whether terror wins.)
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To: netmilsmom
Archdiocese of Atlanta AFAIK doesn't encourage it.

There are a couple of people who do it at our parish (mostly at the Folk Mass < shudder >) but even the Folks at the Folk Mass look at them funny.

It is definitely NOT encouraged in our parish, but I haven't heard anybody say something officially.

There is a loony-left parish near where a lot of our dog trials are held, and if we're running long I scamper over there for Mass. There, they look at you funny if you DON'T hold hands, but I just smile and shake my head if necessary (they can't grab your hands if you fold them quickly!)

34 posted on 07/24/2005 7:53:09 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: netmilsmom

I can't say that it is "encouraged" in the Rockford, Illinois Diocese, but it is certainly allowed. Ditto for the Chicago Arch Diocese.


35 posted on 07/24/2005 7:59:35 PM PDT by Barnacle (You may now return to your normal broadcast schedule.)
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To: NYer

I'm happy to say that during RCIA we were taught this, and as a result, my family are some of the very very few who do not hold hands during the Our Father.


36 posted on 07/24/2005 8:02:12 PM PDT by visualops (www.visualops.com)
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To: Polybius
Soooo......I shouldn't have kissed the blonde next to me and shaken hands with my wife???

Certainly not!.. If that is a picture of your wife.

?:^T

37 posted on 07/24/2005 8:04:49 PM PDT by Barnacle (You may now return to your normal broadcast schedule.)
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To: livius

I refuse any sign of false closeness to strangers. I have always hated the sign of peace.


38 posted on 07/24/2005 8:08:17 PM PDT by steve8714
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To: Macoraba

I go to the FSSP parish of St Stephen's here in the Sacramento diocese, it is very wonderful! I really love the Latin Mass, I had never been to one before I came here. There is so much reverence and the focus is where it should be: on God! :)


39 posted on 07/24/2005 8:22:23 PM PDT by USAF0021
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To: NYer; netmilsmom; AnAmericanMother; Desdemona; Pyro7480; sockmonkey
During our wanderings I only found a few dioceses where this violation of intimacy takes place because of Diocesan direction, teaching, or encouragement. The worst was the Diocese of Galveston-Houston where it was actively promoted from the top down, and actively resisted by the three conservative/traditional parishes in Houston (OLWalsingham, H.Rosary, Annunciation). But the worst by far was the Diocese of Oakland, CA before Bp. Vigneron when weirdness and novelty of any stripe seemed de rigeur.

The real point is diocesesan promotion of this practice, and if a diocese is promoting it, they are violating rulings by the Holy See raised in Doubts/Questions posed to the Holy See by proper authority. I could speak about the Diocese of Metuchen from years gone by, but the words I would type would break forth into flame on your computer screen rendering it a total loss -- and I don't wish that on my friends.

But back to the matter at hand: Holding hands for the Paternoster is illicit. Period.

40 posted on 07/24/2005 9:30:25 PM PDT by Siobhan ("Whenever you come to save Rome, make all the noise you want." -- Pius XII)
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