Did I give him the right response?

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I attended Mass at a different parish today, and one of the ushers approached me and asked me if I wanted to carry the gifts at the offertory. I told him I wasn’t a member of the parish, so he went and found someone else.

Would it have been wrong if I carried the gifts? I just felt that it wouldn’t have been appropriate.
 
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I attended Mass at a different parish today, and one of the ushers approached me and asked me if I wanted to carry the gifts at the offertory. I told him I wasn’t a member of the parish, so he went and found someone else.

Would it have been wrong if I carried the gifts? I just felt that it wouldn’t have been appropriate.
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No, it would not have been wrong; but neither was it wrong to decline. When I attend Mass at our local Trappist abbey, someone is asked to take the hosts up; and as this is not a parish, no one (laity) “belongs” to it as a parishioner. But someone always takes them up.
 
It’s absolutely not inappropriate for a non-parishioner to participate in the offertory procession, but it is also not wrong to decline to do so. God bless. 🙂
 
It’s my understanding that even non Catholics can do this. It is done on my parish often.
 
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