Do you pray in a Protestant Mass?

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Hello, I have to go to an Protestant funeral. It’s my first Protestant funeral. How do you participate the mass?
 
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Would you say with them the “Pater noster” or other prayers?
 
Protestants may pray the Lord’s Prayer, but not in Latin. Sure, you can join in a sincere prayer to God anywhere.
 
BridgetN said:
Don’t participate. If you can, sit near the back, and stay sitting (even if they stand, kneel etc, for their worship.)

You can pray quietly, but I don’t think you should say their prayers with them.

Whatever you do, don’t let them think that you are participating in their worship, or being agreeable to it.
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I find this most interesting. As a non-Catholic I have always stood etc when in a Catholic service whenever the rest of the people did. I felt this was the respectful thing to do and never dreamt that any Catholic watching might interpret it to mean that I was in agreement with all things. Whatever is wrong with participating in one another’s worship of God??

Recently I was in a Catholic funeral where I noticed a group of non-Catholics who were seated together did not stand at the appropriate times and stayed seated. I must admit I felt uncomfortable with that as it apeared to me to be disrespectful and had the look of an act of defiance.
 
Not really, if you think you’re in the truth, then you should be comfortable with what your doing.
Also Christ showed us the way He wanted to be worshiped. We must obey Him. There can be only one proper way, not many.
 
It’s a funeral, it’s time to pay respects to the dead and support the family. This is not a time to get legalistic. Go to Mass once a week as required. Praying extra with a bunch of other people who are hopefully practicing Christians in their own way, is not a sin nor will it kill you. You know who you are and I doubt one Protestant service will change that.

As an aside, communion can be performed at Lutheran funerals and probably Episcopalian also.
 
Which doesn’t make sense because Jesus told us to pray like that. :roll_eyes:
 
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BridgetN:
Don’t participate. If you can, sit near the back, and stay sitting (even if they stand, kneel etc, for their worship.)

You can pray quietly, but I don’t think you should say their prayers with them.

Whatever you do, don’t let them think that you are participating in their worship, or being agreeable to it.
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I find this most interesting. As a non-Catholic I have always stood etc when in a Catholic service whenever the rest of the people did. I felt this was the respectful thing to do and never dreamt that any Catholic watching might interpret it to mean that I was in agreement with all things. Whatever is wrong with participating in one another’s worship of God??

Recently I was in a Catholic funeral where I noticed a group of non-Catholics who were seated together did not stand at the appropriate times and stayed seated. I must admit I felt uncomfortable with that as it apeared to me to be disrespectful and had the look of an act of defiance.
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I think it would be extremely rude to not say the Lord’s Prayer (the Our Father) with them…but remember ours is shorter, minus the doxology. As a former Protestant, whether or not that is said at the funeral will most likely depend on the denomination.

My Catholic dad went to many a Protestant funeral and was most polite and appropriate. Likewise at the multiple Catholic funerals we attended we stood and sat when it was appropriate.
BridgetN said:
Not really, if you think you’re in the truth, then you should be comfortable with what your doing.
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You are at a funeral. It is about the dead and the family. It’s not a time to make a religious statement.
Brittany said:
Depending on the church you go to, some Protestants are against praying prayers that are recited, such as the Our Father.
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I have never heard of a Protestant who was against the Lord’s Prayer, and have prayed it aloud with three different denominations, including Baptist…

…until now. Holy smokes.
Brittany said:
“that was just a guideline to teach us how to pray, not a prayer we are supposed to say. Recited prayers are not real prayers.”
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I don’t know. Any prayer Jesus says should be okay. Just because it is written out doesn’t mean it can’t be my prayer.

Take this prayer, “Jesus, I love you.” Oops. That can be repetitive. That’s not in my own words. Literally every Christian should say this. 🤨
 
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@Brittany - Good grief. That is…I have to say it…the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.

My grandmother’s preacher was wrong in many ways, but I never heard anything like that. My siblings and I were talking about that the other day and they actually said it was him that drove them away from religion for many years.

Not to railroad the thread…sorry, OP.
 
BridgetN said:
Not really, if you think you’re in the truth, then you should be comfortable with what your doing.
Also Christ showed us the way He wanted to be worshiped. We must obey Him. There can be only one proper way, not many.
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So do you believe that Mass is the only way God wants us to worship Him? Don’t you ever pray outside of Mass?
 
paperwight said:
So do you believe that Mass is the only way God wants us to worship Him? Don’t you ever pray outside of Mass?
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Of course I pray outside of Mass. I just said that, by means of what external worship/public worship we should do.
 
I know quite a number of Protestant Christians who don’t believe in praying the Lord’s prayer. I even have a book in my extensive library called “The Lord’s pattern prayer” which makes the case for it to be a sketch of the general shape of prayers and never to be used verbatim.
 
I had just never heard that. That’s amazing to me. That’s why I said “until now”. Wow…I’m actually going to look for that book.
 
BridgetN said:
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paperwight:
So do you believe that Mass is the only way God wants us to worship Him? Don’t you ever pray outside of Mass?
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Of course I pray outside of Mass. I just said that, by means of what external worship/public worship we should do.
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But there are other forms of public worship that the Catholic parish can provide in addition to Mass - Novenas, and Benediction, for instance. Worship doesn’t always have to be a Mass. Nor limited to inside a Catholic church - outdoors Stations of the Cross, for instance, or services round a war memorial… So I don’t agree with your premise that the only form of worship we as Catholics are allowed to participate in is our Mass.
 
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🙂 yeah, I get it. I’ve had conversations with people in the past about this very topic and it is one of those quirky things that doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense!

ETA: Although, to be scrupulously fair, it’s actually quite a good book about taking the themes of the prayer and applying them in a wider sense.
 
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Seriously, the Lord’s Prayer? I thought that was one prayer that virtually every mainstream Christian denomination could agree was totally licit in some form, that could be appropriate in almost any Church.
 
paperwight said:
So I don’t agree with your premise that the only form of worship we as Catholics are allowed to participate in is our Mass.
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That’s not what I said, I was saying that we should not participate in non-Catholic forms of worship.
 
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