Most/least fav parts of Mass?

[Fantine]

The Homily should reflect the readings. There are rules regarding that as well. So, it depends on what someone considers a bad homily. To me, if it follows the rules then it is good even if it is boring. Anything else, no matter how entertaining, is bad.

One of my favorite priests to hear a Homily from is Fr Ben Luedkte (spelling?). Great speaker. But, if you hear him enough you hear some of the same stuff. But even then it is nice to hear and can be fruitful.

I like Lectio Divina homilies (I've said this before.) Not some boring treatise trying to tie all three readings together. Instead, one amazing insight (or aha moment) gleaned from a prayerful reading of all the passages--an insight that people can relate to and carry with them all week. An insight that will inspire them to be better people.

Most homilists have it all wrong.

 

[BabyChristian22]

I like the whole enchelada, but I agree that the sign of peace in the NO seems out of place. Id prefer that the reader would invite everyone to greet and exchange the sign of peace with their neighbors immediately before the opening song starts.

At my parish we are often invited give each other a greeting immediately before the opening song starts, and then later in the Mass we offer each other the sign of peace. I think the sign of peace offered to each other during the Mass is based on how in the Bible it says something about greeting each other with a holy kiss.

 

[MikeK]

I think the sign of peace offered to each other during the Mass is based on how in the Bible it says something about greeting each other with a holy kiss.

I believe that's correct. The exchange of the sign of peace by the parishioners is not necessary for the Mass - you won't find it in the TLM, and in the NO it is optional.

 

[ZooMom]

And, really, who kisses at the SoP...except for maybe family members?

 

[Swoosh]

And, really, who kisses at the SoP...except for maybe family members?

Kissing in the sanctuary is disrespectful. You don't kiss the bride during the wedding ceremony either.

 

[ZooMom]

Romantic kissing may be disrespectful. I doubt that the kiss of peace would be. For instance, my husband and I trace the cross on and kiss our children's foreheads at the SoP. Always have. And we kiss each others cheek if we manage to sit together. We don't kiss our neighbors because it would make people uncomfortable...but, I think that a kiss (like the European kiss of greeting, once on each cheek) would be more appropriate, biblically speaking, than a handshake.

 

[JacktheCatholic]

Romantic kissing may be disrespectful. I doubt that the kiss of peace would be. For instance, my husband and I trace the cross on and kiss our children's foreheads at the SoP. Always have. And we kiss each others cheek if we manage to sit together. We don't kiss our neighbors because it would make people uncomfortable...but, I think that a kiss (like the European kiss of greeting, once on each cheek) would be more appropriate, biblically speaking, than a handshake.

We do similar.

I hope no one mind me sharing a little...

The Kiss of Peace has been something hard for me to accept as a man raised the way I was. Men do not kiss men, even on the cheek. Catholics and their Kiss of Peace.

The wind blows as it may and the Spirit moves us as it may.

After a particularly awesome Mass we had a visiting priest and his homily was so awesome and he was so awesome that filled with the Holy Spirit (after Mass) I thanked the priest with a Kiss on the Cheek with out even thinking about it.

 

[AMDG]

In the Missa Cantata (relatively high Tridentine Mass before Vatican II) that I loved, at the Kiss of Peace the priest and altarboys (there may have been at least eight) would hold each other's forearms and bow toward each other. The "kiss" would go from the altar (the priest) and through each individual altarboy. It was a integral part of the Mass and really quite edifying. It was *not* a "meet and greet" that we see now with people waving at others and flashing the "peace sign" or reaching across pews to shake others hands otherwise distracting from the Eucharist. (At one Mass not to long ago the priest left Jesus alone on the altar to shake hands with people at the back of the church.)

 

[truthHurts77]

Sorry.



I'll admit, it's fairly restrained at our parish, but I have been places where it looked like the early stages of a cocktail party----people wandering up and down the aisles, slapping people of the back, pumping hands like a politician running for re-election....even the priest in some case was walking up and down the nave shaking hands. The inside of the church sounded like a hive full of disturbed hornets.

It really didn't do much for your concentration on the sacred, that's for sure.

i LOL

but it really isstn' funny... just the way you worded things was funny

kinda agravating, really

 

[bill5]

Kissing in the sanctuary is disrespectful. You don't kiss the bride during the wedding ceremony either.

The groom does. I'd kiss my girlfriend, no way am I kissing anyone else and they are wise not to try to do so with me, which none have.