Growls during Mass

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Have observed the past 10 years an increasing amount of difficulty of priests at mass, especially at the consecration like, making mistakes. forgetting words, going blank and having to start over etc. Now twice in the past 2 years at a morning weekday mass have experience something that really spooked me.

Two years ago duiring Mass a loud, huge growl/roar filled the church…so that the priest and everyone present stopped and looked up in the back of the church where the noise appeared to be coming from. Then it was over and the mass resumed.

A few weeks ago, different priest, again at weekday mass, during the consecration, as the priest raised the host, i heard a low growl. I know the priest heard it too and he stopped for a few seconds and was taken aback…then everything continued normally.

Has anyone else ever heard or seen such a thing??
I can’t find any info about the kinds of occurences. :confused:
 
Wow, that’s wierd… First I ever heard about anything like, especially near the Blessed Sacrament…
Maybe the Priest should contact the Exorcist of the Diocese to take a shot at whatever it is
 
The incidents were two years apart and with two different priests and I guess i just didn’t have to courage at the time of each to ask them about it…but i’m a cradle catholic and have never in almost 60 years had an experience like this…not to mention twice! Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.
 
Could have been feedback from the sound system, water pipes the building settling. A number of things.
 
On an aside, talking about a priest forgetting words - the older curate still says ‘we pray for JP our Pope, oh no I mean Benedict’, some weeks he gets it right, some weeks he just skirts over it, but more often than not, it’s JP, Benedict.

I thought this was just the preist at my parish, but was at a different Church last Sunday and the priest said JP as well.

I suppose its hard to break the habit of a lifetime!
 
irelandsgirl

You have to remember that most priests, those less than 26 years ordained, have said nothing but, John Paul our pope at that time during Mass. Bishops change every 5-10 years and that takes some getting used to for the priest as well.
 
I was at a mass once where the priest had a cold and was kind of groggy. He said the concecration backwards, that is he concecrated the wine (thereby confecting the precious blood, all you samantic nit picklers) first, and then proceeded to look up from the altar puzzled and said “okay lets try that again,” and then concecrated the bread (thereby confecting the body of Christ, agin for terminology nit pickers) and proceeded with the rest of the prayer (he did not say “this is my blood…” again).

Also, i was at christmas eve mass a few years ago and we had an old priest saying mass in a secondary chapel on the church grounds (xmas mass was so full we would have 2 masses said at the same time). anyway he was pretty old and somewhat cenile (he died of alzimers a few years later), and he said the eucaristic prayer twice. we knelt down after the agnus dei and he just started up the eucharistic prayer again.
 
Yes, that is what I was talking about. I hear the JP said in place of Benedict a lot too and I know that is just habit after so many years…but the other things like having to repeat, forgetting the creed is what I mean…I can’t help but feel the priest are under a lot of attack…because it is not just the older ones.

Well the sound was a distinct low growl…like an animal. You couldn’t mistake it for pipes, sound system etc…that’s why it so spooked me.

Someone told me that in some missionary churches in some parts of Africa where christianity is new, they will often have ‘carrying on’ during the mass…but the noises, shrieks, growls, etc are coming from specific demonized people, who often have to be removed.

But in this case it wasn’t like that…there were no people the noise was coming from. The first two years ago was a huge loud roar coming from near the ceiling in the back of the church…and the second time a few weeks ago it sounded like it was up near the altar near the priest.

Just wondered if anyone else ever heard anything like it…but so far I guess not. Thanks for the responses though.
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Lorrie:
Was it someone’s stomach?
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That’s funny. My stomach always growls at morning Mass. I get sooooo embarassed!
 
sounds like this church needs a new sound system, our plays all kinds of tricks and is badly in need of excorcism or replacement, but like eveything else, we have to wait for the new church to be built.
 
…I know the difference between a sound system, stomach rumbling…and a distinct animal growl. Thank you, however, for you kind and thoughtful responses.
 
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That’s funny. My stomach always growls at morning Mass. I get sooooo embarassed!
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Mine too, I’m always scared everyone around me hears it. One time it did growl pretty loud and the guy in front of me turned around and looked at me, I then looked at the person next to me as if to say it was them and not me. 😛
 
The growling got me thinking. Occasionally we’ll hear a tapping sound coming from up above in the church (at really opportune moments, too). We’ve got a woodpecker who seems to like our cross; he’s been there the last two summers. A couple of weeks ago he was really going nuts during the presentation of the gifts. So much so, that before he started the Eucharistic prayers, Fr. told all the visitors what was going on and said something about all of creation praising God.
 
Could be a racoon in the belfry. Those little buggers are tempermental and nasty-loud and not near as cuddly as they appear. I’d call an exterminator, because I can assure you I’d never climb up in a dark, musty old belfry with a possible rabid racoon waiting to pounce on me unawares.

If the racoon theory fails, I’d encourage your priest to do something about it, like a simple blessing and some holy water. Wouldn’t advise you to try any imprecatory prayers yourself. Best to leave that kind of thing to the professionals. :gopray2:
 
I think the growling is Satan, ticked off that he can’t overthrow the Church, and angry because the time alotted him is running out! The Evil One is simply trying to scare you. Personally, I see the growling as a sign of the Church’s victory!

I’m sure you’ve all heard the prophecy of Pope Leo XIII "THE VISION OF POPE LEO XIII
Exactly 33 years to the day prior to the miracle of the sun, on October 13,1884, Pope Leo XIII had a vision. Here follows an account of that vision:According to the most widely accepted version of what happened, On October 13, 1884, after Pope Leo XIII had finished celebrating Mass in the Vatican Chapel, attended by a few Cardinals and members of the Vatican staff, hesuddenly stopped at the foot of the altar. He stood there for about 10 minutes, as if in a trance, his face ashen white. Then, going immediately from the Chapel to his office, he composed the prayer to St. Michael, with instructions it be said after all Low Masses everywhere. When asked what had happened, he explained that, as he was about to leave the foot of the altar,
he suddenly heard voices - two voices, one kind and gentle, the other guttural and harsh. They seemed to come from near the tabernacle. As he listened, he heard the following conversation:
The guttural voice, the voice of Satan in his pride, boasting to Our Lord:
“I can destroy your Church”
The gentle voice of Our Lord: “You can? Then go ahead and do so.”
Satan: “To do so, I need more time and more power.”
Our Lord: "How much time? How much power?
Satan: “75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.”
Our Lord: “You have the time, you will have the power. Do with them what you will.”

and another account:
Leo XIII - a Vision of a Looming Crisis…
On October 13, 1884 Leo XIII had just completed a celebration of Mass in one of the Vatican’s private chapels. Standing at the foot of the altar, he suddenly turned ashen and collapsed to the floor, apparently the victim of a stroke or heart attack. However, neither malady was the cause of his collapse. For he had just been given a vision of the future of the Church he loved so much. After a few minutes spent in what seemed like a coma, he revived and remarked to those around him, “Oh, what a horrible picture I was
permitted to see!”

What Leo XIII apparently saw, as described later by those who talked to him at the time of his vision, was a period of about one hundred years when the power of Satan would reach its zenith. That period was to be the twentieth century. Leo was so shaken by the spectre of the destruction of moral and
spiritual values both inside and outside the Church, that he composed a prayer which was to be said at the end of each Mass celebrated anywhere in the Catholic Church. (Prayer to St. Michael).

St Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do though, O Prince of the Heavenly God, by the power of God, cast into Hell Satan and the other Evil Spirits that prowl about the world seeking the ruin of Souls. Amen.

(It is said that Satan is prowling about the world like a lion gobbling up souls. Lions also growl).

cin.org/archives/apolo/199811/0050.html
 
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