Cell Phones at Mass

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Cavaille-Coll said:
LOL!šŸ˜ƒ It seems that when I serve as a lector, I ALWAYS get the reading that has all the tongue-twisting place names and Hebrew wordsā€¦
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The absolute worst is the reading abot the three kids beng thrown in the furnace,
 
One Sunday, a cell phone rung more than once during Mass - our priest asked that unless it was God Himself calling, to please not use the phone during Mass. Since one may not always remember to turn the phone to ā€œsilentā€ or ā€œvibrate,ā€ just leaving the phone in the car during Mass is my solution.
 
Juts reading the title to this thread made me angryā€¦as I have seen this happen at Massā€¦but reading some of your responses made me laugh and ā€œthanksā€ for that:thumbsup:

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This very rarely happens in our parish. It is only last month that I joined the 1990s and started carrying a cellphone. I turn it off when Iā€™m in church or at the Shrine.

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DaveBj said:
I turn it off when Iā€™m in church or at the Shrine.

DaveBj
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Thatā€™s only because you are polite, however rudeness is now pandemic.

Where anyone got the idea that it was acceptable to talk on the phone in church or synagogue, or in school or at a concert or in a meeting of any kind, is the pertinent question.

It seems as if millions have learnt their manners from Bart Simpson.
 
There are so many other places where cellphones can be a nuisance apart from church as well - cinema, restaurant, doctorā€™s or dentistā€™s office, work meetings ā€¦ mine is switched off half the time anyways.
 
At a nearby Parish, the Pastor had one of our friends use her cell phone during mass, to give 'a message about cell phones. They had her husband call her , and when she answered, she talked very loudly and mentioned on her ā€œphone callā€ that she was sorry for the background noise, that someone was being very rude. I think that the Parish got the message that day, I wish I could have been there it sounded very funny.
 
I was on an organ transplant list for a year and a half, and so I had my cell phone on at all times, even during Mass - Father and everyone else knew, and no one would have had a problem with me taking a call.

Luckily, I got the call a year ago May on the way to the office, and Did have to rush right over to KU Med in Kansas City to get my new kidney (they donā€™t have much of a shelf life) - all went very well, thank God, and I turn my cell phone off during Mass now.
 
Every Sunday without fail, the announcer will stand at the lecturn right before Mass and say, ā€œGood morning. A hearty welcome to all, especially to our visitors, as we celebrate the (nth) Sunday in Ordinary Time. If you have cell phones, please turn them off now. Our gathering hymn can be foundā€¦ā€
LilyM said:
There are so many other places where cellphones can be a nuisance apart from church as well - cinema, restaurant, doctorā€™s or dentistā€™s office, work meetings ā€¦ mine is switched off half the time anyways.
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Or when somebody is weaving all over the road, making a deadly hazard of themselves while they try to pilot a two-ton box of steel down the highway and blat on a cell phone at the same time. If I were king, I would outlaw cell phones in a moving vehicle. I cannot count the number of times some lunkhead has nearly smashed into me because they were driving while talking on a cell phone.
 
Sweeney said:
I was on an organ transplant list for a year and a half, and so I had my cell phone on at all times, even during Mass - Father and everyone else knew, and no one would have had a problem with me taking a call.

Luckily, I got the call a year ago May on the way to the office, and Did have to rush right over to KU Med in Kansas City to get my new kidney (they donā€™t have much of a shelf life) - all went very well, thank God, and I turn my cell phone off during Mass now.
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Set on Vibrate?
 
I rarely ever use my cell phone I donā€™t even have my number memorize. I do usually keep my phone with me to keep track of time though. A couple of weeks ago during daily mass(our daily masses are pretty full) my phone which is usually on silent rang right before the homily. I immediately turned the ringer on silent again with dirty look of my DD. Very embarrassed I tried to focus again on the mass. Right before communion it rang again. Well, to say the least I got alot of people saying unkind things behind me. I took my phone out to turn it to silent again. I than notice that it would not work. I than tried to pull the battery out but with the blindness of embarrassment I could not do that either. I finally got up and walked out of church without receiving my Lord. I went straight to the adoritation chapel which is where I go after mass, and why I normally need my phone to keep track of time.

I feel that this was a lesson for me to remember how horrible I felt and embarrassed, and that I should always give others the benefit of the doubt.
 
Laura_B said:
ā€¦I wouldnā€™t have believed it:

Yesterday at the school Mass at our relatively conservative church, a cell phone rang at the beginning of Communion. An older woman (at least 50s) just coming back from receiving Our Lord and Savior pulled out her phone and answered it in a normal-to-slightly-loud speaking voice: ā€œYeah?ā€ ā€œIā€™m in church.ā€ (The Communion songs hadnā€™t started yet so there was absolutely nothing to mask the distraction. Thankfully, it was my turn to go to Communion so I donā€™t know how much longer the conversation lasted butā€¦Oh My! Please pray for her ā€“ and for me.
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Maybe it was God. šŸ˜‰
Other than Him, His Son, The Holy Spirit or Our Holy Mother, it should have been ignored.
 
I think sometimes people just forget, or there may be a legitimate urgency. What bothers me is when their ring tone is something very inappropiate or annoying.
So, like the other two previous posters, I give them the benefit of the doubt. Just please keep the ring tone a short, quiet ring if you must have it on.
 
estesbob said:
The absolute worst is the reading abot the three kids beng thrown in the furnace,
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Yeah, our local child protective services office doesnā€™t like that one either, and neither does the fire marshal. Really messes up our new furnace.
 
Et cum spiri- 2-2-0!

Please explain! Iā€™m feeling very stupid right now.šŸ˜¦ :confused:
 
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