[Unam Sanctam]

I'm not creeped out, but I loathe this practice. I feel it an imposition of enforced intimacy. It is also exclusive, since the non-touchy feely types are either made to feel uncomfortable by holding hands, or look like unsociable jerks if they don't. And don't tell me that it is uncharitable not to hold hands. There are lots of ways of showing charity, and why is this particular public way the method enforced?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

enforced intimacy

Good term. That's exactly what it is. I don't like it and I'm glad to see others don't either. I thought I was alone in this. I am a touchy-feely type but only with certain people. As for my hands, I simply do not like people holding my hands. Strange I know, but it's like a control or a power thing. It bothers me. Anyway, as to the Mass, it just seems the more 'other centered' it becomes, the less 'Christ centered' it is.