Innovation is abuse.
Why do you address me as if I am ignorant about these things?
I am a long-time overtly Catholic Freeper - that alone takes me out of the “most people” category.
In any event, I would be surprised if you know more about these matters than I do. We learn a lot when the folks in the rectory repeatedly tell us up is down and wrong is right. I became an expert real fast - probably the same way you did.
I am quite certain that I enjoy Masses without innovation because I know the GIRM and the related documents inside and out.
>>Innovation is abuse.<<
Wrong. Innovation is not abuse. Abuse make a Holy Mass ilicit. Innovation does not.
We are told in the GIRM what we are to do. We are not told what we cannot do. Therefore, holding hands for the Our Father is not an abuse because the laity is not given a posture for this prayer. One may fold one’s hands, hold hands or lay prostrate. While the last is a hazard to fire code, it is not forbidden. The Orans position for the laity is forbidden because the “Hands Extended” position is directed to the Priest and Deacon ONLY. For the laity to use it in the Holy Mass is an abuse.
See? And also understand that if you know the GIRM, you are not Most People. Most people have no clue that there are “General Instructions” at all.