Does your Church use incense?

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On big days. It’s one element that makes the contemporary, plain church we have seem Catholic.
 
My mother Parish uses incense at High Mass every Sunday - that would be 9 a.m. here 😃 .

The mission doesn’t have a High Mass yet - but I am willing to bet (if I were a gambling woman) that once we become our own Parish we will have a High Mass with incense! I know Fr. has already started talking about having our own Midnight Mass for Christmas and Easter Vigil, but until we have our own building and aren’t using the school Chapel we will continue to only have our two Masses on a Sunday (we might have to add a Saturday Mass but I don’t know how unless one of the Priests can bi-locate :rotfl: or we get a third Priest a they all spend Saturday evening hearing confessions!)

Brenda V.
 
daeve said:
Incense makes me cough. The amount used at a funeral isn’t too bad (just a couple little hacks out of me) but Holy Week is really tough. I can’t cantor or be song leader for Masses with incense. Fortunately, we have several cantors. As a kid in the 50s and 60s, I thought I’d just choke to death sometimes.
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Gotta get that “Gloria” incense. It is hypo-allergenic. It also smells “Glorious”. They also have this blue powdered incense, “Trinity” that also is “non-choking”. I did not want to put a link here for it could look like advertizing but you can find suoppliers via a search engine.

Ken
 
Mine used it a lot during Easter season and it’s used during the Benediction at Adoration. I love the smell of incense but I think that for some people with allergies it could be really hard on them. My husband, who’s not Catholic, has severe allergies and would probably have a lot of problems if he was in church where a incense was being used.
 
I happen to be allergic to it. When I was in college (Catholic college), we had a Byzantine Rite Mass. They fired up that incense near the beginning of the Mass and kept it burning until almost the end (and it was a much longer Mass than the Latin Rite Pauline Mass that I am used to). Halfway through, I started coughing, and I ran for the door when it was finally over! Beautiful Mass, but my sinuses couldn’t take it! :whacky:
 
I had a problem with the incense at a Greek Orthodox Triasagion service at a funeral home. The service itself I liked, although the only thing I understood was “Kyrie Eleison, Christi Eleison, Kyrie Eleison”. The priest lit some incense before he started praying and kept it going throughout the service. I kind of followed along, and made the sign of the Cross when everybody else did, but I had a hard time to keep from coughing. After the priest was done, I went outside for some fresh air.
 
I also have mild allergies.

I find that if I take some kind of allergy medication such as Claratin or Reactin ahead of time (at least an hour in advance), I can enjoy myself at Mass when there is incense, and at my friend’s house who has a dog, as well as other places that could otherwise be very uncomfortable. 🙂
 
I love incense, and would fill my room with it if only it wouldn’t set off the building’s fire alarm! At my seminary, we use it every Sunday and on any feast day. Many people are allergic to certain kinds of incense, especially the kind with wood chips mixed in it. There are many different “flavors” of incense, and I’ve found that the Russian Orthodox varieties are highly aromatic without an excess of smoke. They tend to be floral and sweeter smelling. Usually it is the smoke more than the odor which causes people problems. The Orthodox change “flavors” with each liturgical season, and varieties like Damascus rose, Russian gardenia, and even the bitter-smelling myrrh (which my former parish used during Holy Week) can be used in smaller amounts without smoking up the sanctuary. That being said, churches which have been using incense regularly for a long time appear to have less people who are bothered by it. Perhaps they built up an immunity?
 
…every single day…complete with designated thurifer…
 
We have incense on high holy days and feasts and Saints days. And about once a month because the priest likes it. I love the smell of a Church that routinely burns incense.
 
a_cermak said:
We have incense on high holy days and feasts and Saints days. And about once a month because the priest likes it. I love the smell of a Church that routinely burns incense.
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Me too. I wish ours used it at least on Sundays – though I understand now from reading many responses that a lot of people have allergy-like reactgions to it.
 
Yes - Assumption Grotto Detroit - Every Sunday at the 9:30am Latin Novus Ordo, and on holy days and solemnities, or other special occasions.
 
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