Posted on 07/29/2015 5:08:22 PM PDT by ebb tide
Special note should also be made concerning the gesture for the Our Father. Only the priest is given the instruction to “extend” his hands. Neither the deacon nor the lay faithful are instructed to do this. No gesture is prescribed for the lay faithful in the Roman Missal; nor the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, therefore the extending or holding of hands by the faithful should not be performed.
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Then why don’t you hold hands throughout the Mass, even while receiving Holy Communion?
As Luke wrote in Acts 17:11, Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
Why??? Now it has become Tradition...
Deaf interpreters at Mass have a special place in my heart. A very dear friend of mine is one, and I miss her since we’ve moved.
I admit that I enjoy holding hands as a result of an occasion where an elderly woman grabbed my hand at Mass many years ago. I looked over to see her beautiful blue eyes and gray hair. I felt like I was seeing my long-deceased Grandma in the flesh!! As soon as the Our Father was finished, I had to hurriedly excuse myself to the restroom, where I wept uncontrollably for several minutes. I almost missed Holy Communion but returned just in the nick of time.
While I enjoy hand holding because of the previously mentioned experience, I am not at all offended if my extended hand is not grasped. There are lots of reasons not to do it, and they are all legitimate. Hand holding is definitely not required.
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The above is not in the Roman Missal either.
This started with the Charismatics in the 80s.
As a Protestant, I need my hands to take Communion...one hand holds the (Matzo Bread) cracker, one hand hold the cup...
Believe me that day any preacher, priest, father, clergyman tells me I can't hold my wife hands during worship service because of some legalist reason, will be the day I never set foot in that church again...
>>...one hand holds the (Matzo Bread) cracker, one hand hold the cup...<<
Never mind my question. I don’t even know why you guys consider “crackers” to be any type of Communion.
Who’s your god, Ritz or Saltine?
“This started with the Charismatics in the 80s”.
In other words protestants that claim to be Catholic.
Because we take the symbolic cracker in "remembrance"
Who’s your god, Ritz or Saltine?...Classy !!!
I don't recall Jesus tearing off his flesh for the first communion...He used unleavened bread like a Matzo bread...
Luke 22:19 ..And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
But, hey who am I to change what Jesus commanded us to do to celebrate his sacrifice...
It’s about time....people extending their arms in whatever position that is called MUST have the bishops permission to do so.
They understood Sola Scriptura....
They compared what they were taught to the written Word
The key phrase here is "DO THIS", whereby He commanded them to, as He had just done, transubstantiate bread and wine into His body and Blood.......in remembrance of Me is merely the reason that they were to do so.
You can believe anything you want....but the plain reading in the Greek says no such thing...
Tradition may say that, but Gods word does not...
To each his own....
God bless you...
I rather like the hand holding.
You need to read James. Then come back and let’s discuss.
I bow my head, close my eyes and pray. I will not hold hands if at all possible.
Good one for the Bishop of Covington, Kentucky!
LOL!
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