Before Mass Manners

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Our parish is small so we’d never use drop down screens.
 
13,000 registered families. It’s a huge parish.Easter is a real nightmare
 
Sorry,I meant 1300 per Mass.More like 6000 members😳
 
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The words to hymns; 2 prayers that our parish uses that are not in any missals, any parts of the Mass that is sung. We have a giant blank brick wall where the screen rolls down. My powerpoints have no graphics or animations, just black Calibri font on white background; all black slides in between songs/prayers. Powerpoint was VERY helpful when Mass revisions took place several years ago. Lots of winter Texans, military base nearby, lots of federal LEO’s, so helps visitors & newcomers. Helps kids who can’t manage the large missals, too.
 
The mass is not only a sacrifice, it is a holy hour spent in Christ’s presence. How to work that in…
You are about to spend a holy hour in Christ’s presence. Please silence all devices and vocal chords and enter into the silence of your heart.
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This could also be announced after the mass, printed int he parish bulletin, or posted on a pedestal sign at the entrance to the sanctuary. Old habits die hard and talking is a really old habit.
 
Uh yes. Respect. Honouring youre creator. God is youre creator. The One youre meant to love and respect. Showing up to your creator in flip flops is hardly respect.

What us wrong with people these days?
 
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Uh yes. Respect. Honouring youre creator. God is youre creator. The One youre meant to love and respect. Showing up to your creator in flip flops is hardly respect.

What us wrong with people these days?
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The person was going to confession! Repenting of his sins. You know nothing about his circumstances, other than the fact that he took time from his Saturday afternoon to come to church, humble himself, and confess his sins.

One time my family was at the beach. We were dressed appropriately for a trip to the beach. My teenage son told me that he wanted to go to confession. I stopped what I was doing, looked up local confession times, and took him to confession. He wore his swim trunks, a rash guard, and close-toed sandals. I think he got most of the sand off. Should I have told him that he needed to skip confession because he didn’t have “more appropriate” attire?

I’m sure that God treated both men with mercy.
 
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No respect for who you are going to confess to.
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Okay… Well, my last confession (not in the church), my priest stood in persona Cristi wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals. And his stole. I took him off-guard and he was kind enough to hear my confession in spite of being rather unprepared to do so. I was grateful.
 
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And that relatea to going to confession in the confessional in the church and a scheduled time hiow?
 
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