“Never liked holding hands with drunks and druggies, you never know where they have been. If the last remark is unChristian I plead guilty”.
If you read the entire title thread you will see that holding hands indeed started in AA meetings, then moved on charismatic churches. No Catholic should hold hands during the Our Father. It’s something that was picked up from evangelical churches. I never hold anyone’s hands during the Our Father and have had the person beside me give me a dirty look and not shake my hand when greetings are extended.
“I never hold anyone’s hands during the Our Father and have had the person beside me give me a dirty look and not shake my hand when greetings are extended.”
Shaking hands is another protestant accretion I find irritating.
I’m trying to focus on my relationship with the Holy Trinity, and sometimes contemplating the saints, but they have to jerk me up and make me shake hands with all sorts of people I don’t know.
Matthew 8:3
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.