Before Mass Manners

[puer.dei]

I cannot remember last time I was at Mass when at least one phone did not ring.

I must be very fortunate, I rarely hear a phone ring. But there was one Mass when apparently a lot of people may have turned off the ringer, but not notifications. So, when the severe weather warning was issued . . . Oy!!!

 

[babochka]

TheLittleLady:

I cannot remember last time I was at Mass when at least one phone did not ring.

I must be very fortunate, I rarely hear a phone ring. But there was one Mass when apparently a lot of people may have turned off the ringer, but not notifications. So, when the severe weather warning was issued . . . Oy!!!

I also rarely hear a phone ring. The most memorable occasion was when my priest’s phone went off.

 

[TheLittleLady]

A few years ago, my husband worked for our Church. They were up above the vaulted ceiling changing out the lights and his phone slid out of his pocket and way down to the V where the arch met the wall. No way to climb out to that part without risking a plaster ceiling cave in.

We stood there an called his phone over and over until the battery died so it would not ring during Mass!

 

[JanR]

A few years ago, my husband worked for our Church. They were up above the vaulted ceiling changing out the lights and his phone slid out of his pocket and way down to the V where the arch met the wall. No way to climb out to that part without risking a plaster ceiling cave in.

We stood there an called his phone over and over until the battery died so it would not ring during Mass!

How did he manage to get the phone out of there? Or did he?

 

[JanR]

I don’t use and don’t like cell phones, so won’t be having one with me at Mass – or at any other time.

The beauty of land lines:

Always work, even in a power outage.
No batteries to go dead.
No dropped calls.
No having to worry about getting a signal – or not getting one.
No having to purchase time.
No contracts.
No having to remember to turn it on or off.

Give me a land line, any day, over a cell phone.

 

[Convert3]

Until you break down on an interstate.

 

[JanR]

And then you can’t get a signal … Or your call for help gets dropped.

Okay, I’ll submit that having a simple Trac phone for emergencies is a good idea. Let’s hope it works when needed.

 

[TheLittleLady]

It was rigging of some very long flexible thing with a big wad of duct tape on the end to stick to the phone.

 

[Phemie]

I don’t use and don’t like cell phones, so won’t be having one with me at Mass – or at any other time.

The beauty of land lines:

Always work, even in a power outage.
No batteries to go dead.
No dropped calls.
No having to worry about getting a signal – or not getting one.
No having to purchase time.
No contracts.
No having to remember to turn it on or off.

Give me a land line, any day, over a cell phone.

They’ll pry mine out of my cold dead hands.
I do own a prepaid cell phone, but 90% of the time it’s either dead or mislaid. My friends know they have a better chance of reaching me with a message on Facebook than a call to my cell. I mainly use it when I’m travelling, or for texting my youngest.

 

[Phemie]

And then you can’t get a signal … Or your call for help gets dropped.

Okay, I’ll submit that having a simple Trac phone for emergencies is a good idea. Let’s hope it works when needed.

I live in the middle of the boonies and you don’t have to get far out of town to lose cell signal. If we’re going on a trip, the gov’t has set up a program that allows us to borrow a satellite phone to take with us and drop it off at the hotel in the next town, 600 km down the road.

 

[TC3033]

And then you can’t get a signal … Or your call for help gets dropped.

I live in the middle of the boonies and you don’t have to get far out of town to lose cell signal

Really? I used to work in wireless communications and not being able to get a signal was barely a thing a decade ago, let alone now. It has to be pretty desolate or really mountainous to struggle with getting a signal of any kind.

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[Phemie]

JanR:

And then you can’t get a signal … Or your call for help gets dropped.

I live in the middle of the boonies and you don’t have to get far out of town to lose cell signal

Really? I used to work in wireless communications and not being able to get a signal was barely a thing a decade ago, let alone now. It has to be pretty desolate or really mountainous to struggle with getting a signal of any kind.

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Here’s a satellite view of where I live. Those place names along the Trans-Labrador Highway (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) are the only inhabited areas, with nothing but mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers in between.

That road only opened in 1993 and they only finished paving it a few years ago. On the right edge of the picture you’ll find Goose Bay where the USAF had a Base from 1942 to 1991.

 

[TC3033]

Ya…Canada is horrid, outside of Alberta. A lot of trucks run sat modems up there.

Goose Bay looks pretty decent on both Bell and Telus, but when you get out (maybe 50 miles or so)…ya, it’s pretty gone.

 

[Phemie]

Ya…Canada is horrid, outside of Alberta. A lot of trucks run sat modems up there.

Goose Bay looks pretty decent on both Bell and Telus, but when you get out (maybe 50 miles or so)…ya, it’s pretty gone.

In town it’s not too bad but I don’t think we have to go as far as 50 km, let alone 50 miles, to lose the signal. We even have a problem with Sirius up here. The satellite was re-positioned a few years ago and since they the signal drops all over the place.

I can’t even get high speed internet at work. They’re only now starting with fiber optic service but it hasn’t reached my house or my work place yet. This, on a business internet account, is the result of my speed test.
(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

 

[babochka]

JanR:

And then you can’t get a signal … Or your call for help gets dropped.

I live in the middle of the boonies and you don’t have to get far out of town to lose cell signal

Really? I used to work in wireless communications and not being able to get a signal was barely a thing a decade ago, let alone now. It has to be pretty desolate or really mountainous to struggle with getting a signal of any kind.

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Zoom in on that map for a better picture. Big Sur in California, for example, is notorious for no coverage. Desolate, perhaps. But people do live and travel there.

 

[TC3033]

Sure…I didn’t say it was impossibe. Without knowing BigSur well, but by looking at the map it looks to be very “topographical”, with cellular communications being LOS it’s going to struggle there.

We were in the black hills over the summer and occasionally would lose service, which I would expect in a “hilly” (mountainous?) national park.

 

[Convert3]

On the right edge of the picture you’ll find Goose Bay where the USAF had a Base from 1942 to 1991.

I remember spending a night a Goosebay back in the 80’s. I think we drank a lot of Moosehead beer.

 

[JanR]

We even have a problem with Sirius up here. The satellite was re-positioned a few years ago and since they the signal drops all over the place.

We have Sirius in our vehicle, and the signal cuts in and out as we travel along our winding rural roads surrounded on each side by dense forest with clearings in between. Also, lots of hills.

I live in north Idaho, and once we get a few miles outside of town, there’s no cell service, at all. Even with a Trac phone, if we got stranded along one of those roads, we wouldn’t be able to contact anyone.

 

[Mi_Rose]

I lost coverage driving between two cities in lower Michigan so there are spots. In fact we have learned that you can’t call my house from a more populated area ten miles away because your call will go poof.

 

[ioannes_pius]

“But the use of a screen onto which words are projected for hymns or other texts seems to be contrary to the spirit of the liturgy, because that object becomes the center of attention, rather than the altar, ambo and chair. Audiovisual technology may have certain uses in a church, but during Mass showing films or inspirational slides reduces worship to the level of the television culture.” (Elliott, p. 234)