While we are on the subject or liturgical abuse, what is with all this chattiness before Mass starts? My old parish we said the Rosary people want to run their mouths, lets have prayer. Don't even get me started on the rush from the pews after Mass.
**what is with all this chattiness before Mass starts? **
Bothers me too. Also that the only day everyone will go out silently is Good Friday.
As far as I am concerned in front of the Eucharist I am there to adore, glorify, praise and pray. Christ IS and should be the center of everyone’s attention.....not talking with someone else.
Not reverent at all.
You are so right, but it’s not just the children involved in the silliness. I see adults waving and calling out as if they are at a ball game.
We have that chattiness at our Masses, as well. I learned as a toddler not to do that. It’s especially infuriating when I take my grandsons, who are under 6, to Mass with me, since I have reminded them in the car about not talking in church.
About a year and a half ago, though, our parish began a new strategy. A few minutes before Mass actually begins, someone intones something like, “Let us all now enter into the sacred silence”. And they do shut up — until the stupid sign of peace.