Folded hands at Mass

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I clasp my hands together with fingers interlaced. I find the hands folded position to be very awkward and uncomfortable. My wrists just don’t want to bend that way.
 
**In our Parish people fold their hands in some way whether finger tips touching or intertwined when going up for Communion and coming back…some will do the sign of the cross before receiving and some will bow their head.

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The priest keeps his hands joined: when, vested, he walks in procession for the celebration of a liturgy; when he is kneeling at prayer; when he moves from altar to chair or from chair to altar; when the liturgical books prescribe joined hands.

Similarly, ministers keep their hands joined when walking from place to place or when standing, unless they are holding something.

“Hands joined” means: “Holding the palms sideward and together before the breast, with the right thumb crossed over the left.”
--Cf. *Ceremonial of Bishops*, no. 107 and footnote no. 80 (citing *Caeremoniale Episcoporum*, ed. 1886, I, XIX, 1)
 
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