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Sign of peace at Mass: Vatican says it stays put, but urges education
Catholic Review ^
| 8/4/14
| Cindy Wooden
Posted on 08/04/2014 8:22:12 AM PDT by Welchie25
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:22:12 AM PDT
by
Welchie25
To: Welchie25
Ick. I hate it. Hippy-dippy, Plastic banana, Feel-good Kumbayah Catholicism. I never touch anyone’s appendages during worship.
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:26:51 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(Islam is militant. Atheism is militant. Where is my Catholic Church?)
To: steve8714
Another sign of the feminization of my Church.
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:27:24 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(Islam is militant. Atheism is militant. Where is my Catholic Church?)
To: Welchie25
Nor do I pray with arms upraised or joined hands.
No Protestant “Our Father”.
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:28:42 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(Islam is militant. Atheism is militant. Where is my Catholic Church?)
To: Welchie25
Catholic liturgy is a hot mess today.
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:29:14 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(Islam is militant. Atheism is militant. Where is my Catholic Church?)
To: steve8714
I have never understood the issue with the sign of peace. And I have never understood why some object to receiving Holy Communion in the hand.
To: steve8714
Happy Clappy Dopey Gropey
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:33:33 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Did you read the article?
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:34:17 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
To: Jeff Chandler
To: steve8714
Nor do I pray with arms upraised or joined hands.
I'm a lapsed Catholic who, back in the day, never did the feel-good, peace handshake. I came to honor God, not swap germs.
Maybe worse though - I recently attended a wedding and was stunned when the priest asked the congregation to raise both hands which someway, somehow, did something to or for the new bride and groom. Incredible.
Next they'll have everyone rolling on the floor. And my wife wonders why I won't go back.
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:36:28 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: steve8714
I actually think it is a wonderful expression, as did Augustine...
http://books.google.com/books?id=qIvo6gqiZZgC&pg=PA197&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Augustine, Sermon 227
“Then, after the consecration of the Holy Sacrifice of God, because He wished us also to be His sacrifice, a fact which was made clear when the Holy Sacrifice was first instituted, and because that Sacrifice is a sign of what we are, behold, when the Sacrifice is finished, we say the Lord’s Prayer which you have received and recited. After this, the ‘Peace be with you is said, and the Christians embrace one another with the holy kiss. This is a sign of peace; as the lips indicate, let peace be made in your conscience, that is, when your lips draw near to those of your brother, do not let your heart withdraw from his. Hence, these are great and powerful sacraments. Do you wish to know how they are commended? The Apostle says: “Whoever eats the body of Christ or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”
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posted on
08/04/2014 8:37:36 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
And I have never understood why some object to receiving Holy Communion in the hand. Nor have I.
Matthew Chap. 26, "While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, Take and eat; this is my body.
Take and eat, he did not put it into their mouth individually, at least the text does not suggest that.
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posted on
08/04/2014 9:06:08 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
I've never understood how the Church covered up the pedophile priest problem.
I've never understood why the Church thinks the US has no sovereignty and it's the American taxpayers' responsiblity to take care of millions of illegal aliens.
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posted on
08/04/2014 9:13:33 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Welchie25
I despise the “sign of peace” It always seems like the same guy you shok hands with in the next pew won’t let you out of the church parking lot afterward.
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posted on
08/04/2014 9:14:38 AM PDT
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: mc5cents
To: oh8eleven
I am in total agreement.
As Ricky Ricardo would say, the Church has some splainin’ to do.
To: Welchie25
**But that does not exclude the need for new or renewed efforts to explain the importance of the sign of peace so that the faithful understand it and participate in it correctly, the congregations letter said.
It asked bishops to study whether it might be time to find more appropriate gestures to replace a sign of peace using familiar and profane gestures of greeting.**
I so dislike it when people flash me the hippie "peace" sign. Profane in my estimation.
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posted on
08/04/2014 9:33:12 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
I think the hippies hijacked that sign much as homosexuals hijacked the word “gay”.
When Winston Churchill made that sign during WWII it stood for V for victory.
To: Welchie25
Our pastor in Minnesota used to start the mass with it, instead of inserting it AFTER the Consecration. I have refused to participate and simply keep my head bowed and my hands to myself. The Byzantine rite has an “agape” meal (noshes, really) after the Divine Liturgy as a “sign of peace,” so that there is no interruption of the flow of the Liturgy itself. (Besides, during flu season, it doesn’t make much sense to be clasping the hands of sneezing and coughing people.)
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posted on
08/04/2014 9:48:53 AM PDT
by
redhead
(NO GROUND TO THE DEVIL! Remember BENGHAZI!! Use Weaponized Prayer)
To: steve8714
Ick. I hate it. Hippy-dippy, Plastic banana, Feel-good Kumbayah Catholicism. I never touch anyones appendages during worship.
But you drink out of the same wine cup during communion, don't you? Why don't you just kiss them on the lips.
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posted on
08/04/2014 9:50:26 AM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Truth is the enemy of our dysfunctional government.)
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