About the Easter Sunday Mass

  • Thread starter Thread starter catholic-rcia
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
C

catholic-rcia

Guest
How do you feel about a community church picture before the procession out of the Mass Easter Sunday? Then many people leaving after the picture …then the Procession out of the Church.
 
I don’t see a major problem, since by that time the Mass is technically over. That is, the procession/recession is not actually part of the Mass and so it really isn’t regulated. In fact, there doesn’t even have to be a procession/recession.
 
YoungTradCath said:
I don’t see a major problem, since by that time the Mass is technically over. That is, the procession/recession is not actually part of the Mass and so it really isn’t regulated. In fact, there doesn’t even have to be a procession/recession.
Click to expand...
I’m shocked to hear you say this.

A picture of the entire Church family after partaking in the Eucharistic meal? What a wonderful thought.

Next thing you know we will be holding hands. 😛

Oh… wait… 😉

-Tim-
 
If the priest/deacon has ended the Mass “The Mass has ended…”, then the Mass is over and a picture is fine. The recessional is not technically part of the Mass. Father doesn’t have to formally walk out of the church with music playing. He can simply leave the altar and go directly to the sacristy. 😉
 
TimothyH said:
I’m shocked to hear you say this.

A picture of the entire Church family after partaking in the Eucharistic meal? What a wonderful thought.

Next thing you know we will be holding hands. 😛

Oh… wait… 😉

-Tim-
Click to expand...
I don’t think it’s prudent to hire the local photographer to drag out his equipment so the parish can have a picture party, nor do I think it’s prudent that this happen all the time or even very often at all, but once in a great while for some special reason isn’t really a big deal, since by that time, yes, Mass is over. In fact, I think the best way to do it would be to make a small announcement at the end of the homily requesting people stay in their pews for two minutes after Mass, have a normal recession, then have the priest and deacon and whoever else come back up the nave to take the picture. That way, the normal flow of the Mass is not interrupted, while at the same time making it possible to have the picture. That is how it would happen if it was up to me.

And I would NEVER condone holding hands at Mass!
 
I just had the opportunity to be part of a very reverent Mass for fourteen years. That would be my problem. Now I am in a new Parish. In my mind the ending procession after the Mass is a beautiful way to leave after the encounter with Christ. I guess I was looking at it as a vital part of the Most Holy Mass. Now I know I don’t really have to wait. If I have something else that is more important I can just leave before the procession out behind the Cross. Can I leave right after receiving Holy Communion as well? I used to be LDS until I was Baptized Catholic 14 years ago. What helped me in my own conversion was the Mass. I think I was spoiled in Logan Utah. The reverence means all to me. Including the procession out behind the Cross. But that’s just me. As to holding hands I know no different. Always have.

www.chooseyourcross.com
www.utahmission.com
 
catholic-rcia said:
I just had the opportunity to be part of a very reverent Mass for fourteen years. That would be my problem. Now I am in a new Parish. In my mind the ending procession after the Mass is a beautiful way to leave after the encounter with Christ. I guess I was looking at it as a vital part of the Most Holy Mass. Now I know I don’t really have to wait. If I have something else that is more important I can just leave before the procession out behind the Cross. Can I leave right after receiving Holy Communion as well? I used to be LDS until I was Baptized Catholic 14 years ago. What helped me in my own conversion was the Mass. I think I was spoiled in Logan Utah. The reverence means all to me. Including the procession out behind the Cross. But that’s just me. As to holding hands I know no different. Always have.
Click to expand...
I would hope you can accept that, although a closing procession is the normal manner of ending things, sometimes unique circumstances, like a once-yearly parish photograph, will create occasional variances in standard practice. And that is fine, especially when it comes to things like the closing procession, which are not (much to many people’s surprise) governed by liturgical law or actually a part of the Mass. I agree with you; I like the recessional, and when I have been to Masses without them – typically EF (pre-Vatican II-style Latin Masses) where the priest just sort of sneaks off into the sacristy after Mass – it feels like something is missing. But let’s not put too much importance on something the Church has never seen fit to deem vital.

At the same time, and by the same token, I think you know well enough that although ducking out before the recessional or even just after Communion might be acceptable when there are extenuating circumstances, it should not be one’s standard practice. The same as would go for showing up unshowered or in smelly clothes.
 
I don’t want to hijack the thread but I’m wondering about that for some time now. Is the procession in and out of church through the main entrance done every sunday in the US?
Here in Germany it is done very rarely, like when the bishop comes for confirmation.
Usually one of the servers (or the priest if there are no servers) rings the sacristy bell and they walk from the sacristy to the foot of the altar. After mass they take the same way back.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top