[Popman]

Then why don’t you hold hands throughout the Mass, even while receiving Holy Communion?

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...

[ebb tide]

>>...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?

[Campion]

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

The objection is not to spouses holding hands to express affection, but to people grabbing the hands of the stranger next to them during the Lord's Prayer, as though that were some sort of gesture that was required or prescribed by the liturgy. (I have actually been told by people that this was an "obligation" imposed by the "faith". Uh, sorry, no, it isn't.)