[Thorondir]

In most (but not all) of the Nervous Disorder Masses that I have seen, the extended throng of EMs is like a club of very special people of the extremely liberal and self-important type who like to be seen up in the sanctuary by those little people out there. They are the same people who populate the all-important lay committees, and that insignificant priest had better not prevent them from coming up after consecration to flaunt their honors before the crowd.

[B Knotts]

Our pastor, when he took over from the previous pastor, within a week or two had put a stop to the practice of EEMs lining up behind the altar at the Agnus Dei, which had gone on for quite a while.

We still have 'em, but now they stand outside the sanctuary, until after they have received, and even then they only stand on the edge/step.

[sinkspur]

In most (but not all) of the Nervous Disorder Masses that I have seen, the extended throng of EMs is like a club of very special people of the extremely liberal and self-important type who like to be seen up in the sanctuary by those little people out there. They are the same people who populate the all-important lay committees, and that insignificant priest had better not prevent them from coming up after consecration to flaunt their honors before the crowd.

They're volunteers, who want to do something for the Church.

Your juvenile and flippant condemnation of dedicated lay people says more about your surly self than it does about these good people.

You simply don't know what you're talking about, so you tear down other people.

It's what you do best.