Do you pray in a Protestant Mass?

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Tis_Bearself said:
Yes, I usually see them at every funeral home regardless of whether the deceased was Catholic or not. Those who wish to use them, do; other people just stand by the casket, or they nod or bow or whatever it is they do.

This particular funeral home my husband’s family uses I think tries to conform the arrangement to the religion of the person using it. It’s a small town and the director knows a lot of the patrons and their families.
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Along with that, there are different customs in different areas of the country. In Canada the eastern customs are quite different from the west.
 
Last week I was at a funeral at the Protestant Church I had attended for over twenty years, leaving in 1996. I haven’t become Catholic yet, though I attend Mass as often as 3 times a week. At this funeral I sang the hymns, prayed when prayers were said, and greeted a few people I remembered from long ago. There was no kneeling, communion, or genuflecting, but I did make the sign of the cross following the prayers. If any of my old friends noticed they did not say anything afterward. Too bad, though. I would have enjoyed rocking their world by saying I was doing the Catholic thing now. 🙂
 
My wife does, all the time. She really enjoys going to my church.

On top of other issues we’ve had with her church, she just finds the lessons at my church much deeper and thought out. The homily (especially at the Sunday morning “family” Mass) has just become a commercial for their K-6 school. I remember the last line of the Christmas Eve Mass was about getting kids to transfer from the public elementary schools to theirs in the week between Christmas and New Year. Heck, even one homily called our families mass attendance out (not by name, but with our unique situation it was obvious who he was talking about).

I’ll tell you the same thing that anyone here would tell a non-Catholic visiting Mass. Stand when everyone stands, sit when everyone sits. Honestly, from all the funerals that I’ve been to there won’t really be any “participation” outside of being there for the family of the deceased, outside of probably a couple prayers and maybe a hymn or two.
 
semper_catholicus said:
I’m pretty sure you can’t actively participate, because it’s a place of worship of a false religion; a false church.
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Such a position does not seem consistent with what the Catechism teaches.

1271 Baptism constitutes the foundation of communion among all Christians, including those who are not yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: “For men who believe in Christ and have been properly baptized are put in some, though imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church. Justified by faith in Baptism, [they] are incorporated into Christ; **they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers by the children of the Catholic Church.” “**Baptism therefore constitutes the sacramental bond of unity existing among all who through it are reborn.”

How is Christianity a “false religion”?

They are called ecclesial communities because they lack the four marks of the Church we were given by the Apostles. Therefore they cannot be a “false” Church. They are Christian communities through which the Holy Spirit works.

819 "Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth"273 are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: "the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements."274 Christ’s Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him,275 and are in themselves calls to "Catholic unity."276
 
To him and our faith. Saying as kids we didn’t know what it meant.
 
No, she didn’t go because her pastor told her not to go.

We have had an open casket at every Protestant service I’ve ever been to. She didn’t go because her minister said it was a religious issue. Because he was Orthodox. It was a point of conjecture for literally years.
 
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Some people on this thread sound like her Protestant pastor. (rolls eyes)

But open casket—I am not a fan at all. I have told people I know that under no circumstances are there to be ANY open casket viewings if I was to die unexpectedly. I find it way creepy and the deceased often looks weird and waxy. My dad, for example.
 
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Believe me - this guy was a disaster. Still is. And that is precisely what he told her. We heard all about it. My dad (a Catholic) even attempted to call him out on it.
 
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I hope you become Catholic one if these days. Feel free to message me on why your not Catholic. I’d be happy to hear your reasoning.
I believe protestant and Catholic religions are different but that in general there is nothing wrong with a protestant service. My Catholic church actually arized a protestant service as “a meeting of christians”. Keep in mind they didn’t say it was sacred, that the eucharist was necessarily there, that aass took place, but nothing wrong with a meeting of christians. Just make sure to go to mass afterwards.
 
Wannano said:
Am I understanding you correctly that for the Catholic only the Eucharist constitutes worship?
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In a sense, this is correct. Think about religions, the highest form of worship is sacrifice. For us, the Eucharist is a sacrifice. We have priests and not just teachers. It is the highest form of worship, in which Jesus Christ’s Sacrifice is made present. In the strictest sense, it is the only form of worship.
 
Most mainstream Protestants may have different theology about some things, but believe the most basic essentials of Christianity— what is contained in the Nicene Creed. It isn’t like they are Scientologists or something.
 
It is never wrong to say The Lord’s Prayer. It can be used in pretty much any situation. If I can’t think of something else to pray in a given situation, I just say the Our Father.
 
I’d show up wearing a miter and crosier, just so everyone knows what team you’re on.

😂😂😂

Just go with the flow. They’re pretty casual affairs.
 
The Protesrant churches are false, because they aren’t the True Church. There is only one Church. The Catholic Church.
 
Andy235 said:
Some people on this thread sound like her Protestant pastor. (rolls eyes)
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I thought so too!!!
FrancisPio said:
I believe protestant and Catholic religions are different but that in general there is nothing wrong with a protestant service.
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I don’t understand what this means? A different “religion” makes it sound like it is not Christian?
semper_catholicus said:
The Protesrant churches are false, because they aren’t the True Church. There is only one Church. The Catholic Church.
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Such an attitude is contradictory to what the catechism teaches.
 
There was an invocation at my friend’s retirement ceremony on Friday led by a Protestant chaplain. Guess that was wrong too…:roll_eyes:
 
Hey Guanophore. That is a great question. I’m going to start a new thread on this because it’s a different topic. From the original. Feel free to pitch in and give me a good scolding/ education. 😉
 
Are you kidding me?

“Is it permitted for Christians to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate together under a single agreement everyone who, in any way, lays claim to the name of Christian? In the negative! […] It is clear, therefore, why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics. There is only one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ for those who are separated from her.” Pope Pius XI
 
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