[MarineBrat]

I grew up in the Church during the 60’s and the first half of the 70’s. There was never hand holding during the Lord’s Prayer. Then when I returned to the Church in the 90’s, all of a sudden everyone was holding hands, and the people on the end of the aisle were putting their free hand up in the air like some sort of lightning rod. Much changed from 1974 to 1993. :)

[Lou Budvis]

Wish all bishops took that position. And the Sign of Peace as well. It’s not that I don’t wish peace to everyone. It’s that I don’t want to shake germy hands before communion.

[guitarplayer1953]

There is a verse that states that one can not raise their hands in prayer if they have a conflict with someone and we use to joke that is why the charismatics only raise one hand in prayer.

[napscoordinator]

yeah. I don’t like it at all. My family and I don’t participate in that. It just seems weird to me. For goodness sakes I don’t have a problem with others doing it but I won’t.

[cloudmountain]

I grew up in the Church during the 60’s and the first half of the 70’s. There was never hand holding during the Lord’s Prayer. Then when I returned to the Church in the 90’s, all of a sudden everyone was holding hands, and the people on the end of the aisle were putting their free hand up in the air like some sort of lightning rod. Much changed from 1974 to 1993. :)

THANK YOU.
There is all kinds of arm waving, imitating the priest with his appropriate arm waving. The altar girls are the worst that I've noticed, with their arm waving...or they stand with arms at their sides. There IS something in between, folks.
The ordinary folks have gotten an attack of "let's-imitate-the-priest" syndrome. The hand-holding is sweet, I suppose, especially with families but I don't want to hold hands with a stranger next to me. Geez.
I think some of the changes, the touchy-feeling ones, are STUPID.

[TradicalRC]

I think everybody saw it on The Walton’s and thought, “hey, that’s kinda neat.” It all rolled downhill from there.