[Miss Marple]

Well, as a Methodist, I don't like it either. I find it vey distracting to hold hands with people when praying, especially if they are total strangers. It is distracting and is just another thing that makes me grumble, along with skits, sacred dance, and granola group hymns.

[Texas_Jarhead]

wow, I'm suprised at the angst voiced in this thread over holding hands. Especially considering it is a fellow Christian's hand and it's during the praising of God.

[RobbyS]

My personal complaint about liturgical reforms is that most of them are just so phoney. One abandons a long established practice for novelties that are often just plain silly. In the case of the Catholic Church we abandoned a liturgy that took three hundred years to develop, including adaptions to local preference, and adopted new forms that lack either religious or aesthetic merit. Guitar masses came about simply because folk music was trendy at the time of the reforms and most of the tunes were far belong the level of commercial tunes because their composers were nontalents.