Cell phones at church

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Even if you delete your sins immediately afterwards, they can actually be restored on your phone. The same thing applies to computers. The technology exists today so that nothing is ever permanently deleted. You never know what’s going to happen if your cell phone falls into the wrong hands.
 
Honestly I’m more considering the probability of someone applying computer forensics to my phone in order to find out a list of sins I deleted is pretty astronomically low. I’m just not that interesting.
 
I often abbreviate the name of the sin.
Margaret_Ann said:
Even if you delete your sins immediately afterwards, they can actually be restored on your phone. The same thing applies to computers. The technology exists today so that nothing is ever permanently deleted. You never know what’s going to happen if your cell phone falls into the wrong hands.
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That depends. I know at least iPhones encrypt the phone’s drive. It is extremely unlikely a regular person could access your data. Now, if your data syncs to internet that is a risk.
 
I always carry my work phone and my personal phone. At church, at the gun range, just about everywhere. Sometimes stuff happens.
 
I always carry my phone because I guarantee if I put it down somewhere that is not my purse or the charger I’ll lose it. And I don’t have a home phone or even a jack for one, so my cell is the only thing.
 
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Again, though, how do you know they aren’t using it for examination of conscience? And could you pick out which one is the one on it for a legitimate reason? If you’re in a confessional line and far more interested in the people on their phones than your own confession, there is a larger problem.

“Lord, I thank you that I am not like other men. Thieves, adulterers, or this phone-addict…”

Just sayin’… 😉
 
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I think that is fine. I know very good Catholics who come early or stay late after Mass to pray the Divine Office on their phones and yes there are a lot of very good apps with prayers and I don’t have a problem with that and maybe that is what everyone was doing. I hope so and as I said as long as someone is being respectful of where they are and who is around them, I don’t think it is a problem.

It is when it becomes texting, giggling and game playing it is a problem and you can usually tell if that is what they are doing. I rarely see something like that happen in our parish.

I guess I do think that if we have to wait a few minutes to answer a text due to safety while driving a car, we should also be able to wait a few minutes until we are out of confession also to answer text messages, so if that would be what they were doing it would be different.
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To be fair, if I’ve been reading St Augustine’s “Confessions” (perfectly worthy reading), regardless of whether or not I was in Church, I have to suppress a giggle at the line “Lord, grant me chastity and continence - but not just yet!”.

Or the story of poor old Balaam’s a**.

Or St Peter piping up at Pentecost with “it’s only nine o’clock in the morning - of course we’re not drunk!”

Or St Teresa of Avila - “Lord, if this is how you treat your friends, no wonder You have so few!”

Even worthy reading material has the odd bit of levity and humour in it. Jesus who so loves children must surely love laughter as much as children do.
 
Margaret_Ann said:
You never know what’s going to happen if your cell phone falls into the wrong hands.
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And a notebook or a piece of paper coiuld easily be put down or dropped, and left behind.
My phone is password-protected, and if you get past that, any important notes have a separate password. That would be a lot of work for somebody, just to find out I swore at a lousy driiver on the highway.
 
You’re right. I don’t know. I didnt say I know or could judge or am judging or want to judge because I’m not and I dont. I’m just saying a cellphone CAN be a disturbance and if you are on it be respectful of others in line trying to pray and I am sure you would agree there is nothing wrong with showing respect to those around you.
 
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