“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.
...make me shake hands with all sorts of people I don’t know.
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I used to be cowed into shaking hands, but, starting about 4 years ago, I will not shake hands. I keep the missalette open in my right hand, so it is obvious that nobody can shake it. I nod and say, “Peace be with you”, to people near me.
Actually, I picked up the idea from a man I saw in church one Sunday. Since I have started this, I have noticed lately a few other people doing the same in my small parish.
INDEED!!
Gimme them HOLY KISSES instead!