Have you ever corrected any one during mass?

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Unless you are monitoring the receipt of the Eucharist, why are you looking around at anyone else and why is your focus distracted into looking at other people instead of looking to the Eucharistic celebration and to Jesus on the Altar? If you are going to be the Mass police, well you will always be distracted, you are not there to correct people, you are there to offer Mass and yourself to God and receive God into yourself.

Quite frankly someone could do a hula dance infront of me and I wouldn’t notice, I’m not looking around at other people, I’m offering Mass with the Priest

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
I am known as the gum lady, if I see the kids in line chawwing, I put my hand out, and don’t move till I get the gum. keep kleenex available and hand sanitizer just for this reason. actually the kids are learning, the parents are the worst, but everybody knows what it means when I have my hand out. You’d think they would learn.
 
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hopeandlove:
I have never corrected anyone but:

I was once correct in church by an elderly woman who told me after she refused to give me the sign of peace that I should not receive communion because I had a child and was unwed. I was so taken aback I couldn’t even tell her that the child I was with was my youngest brother! :hmmm:
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I’ll second that :bigyikes: . Probably a good story to remind us to bite our tongues for all but the most serious infractions.
 
No, I never have, but I have been the target, not really me but my son, He can not talk at all, but makes sounds (autism)He was only about 6 years old at the time (he’s 17 now) when a man told me to tell that child to be quiet or leave I got up in tears and stop right outside the door with my son. Unknown to me his wife gave it to him good. He saw me after Mass and said he was sorry, today they are both very dear friends of mine.:love:
 
The occasional grimace or disapproving glance in the direction of the talkers or candy-wrapper-crinklers. Then my embarrassed wife usually “corrects” me with a kick in the shins. 😃
 
I don’t really care about watching what other people are doing - that is between them and God.

I have very young children who can get restless - so I’m sure I can tick off some folks who think it’s a breeze to make active toddler boys sit silently for an houir.
We take them out when they are loud. Usually we do mass in shifts so we can actually hear what is going on.

Sometimes when I’m alone I’ll happen to be by a stressed out mom who is worried her kids are bothering me.
I make sure I let her know I am not judging her…I’ve been in her shoes many times.

C’mon people! lighten up!
 
I’ve corrected my daughter, and my husband a few times too, sometimes they get to talking. I don’t think it really my place to to be the Mass police to people outside my family.

I did see something that astounded me. At Mass at my old parish there was a man with his 2 year old daughter. (I know them, along with with his wife and another daughter who weren’t there that day.) The Man has celiac (the disease where you can’t digest wheat). They were in the pew in front of us. When we got back to our pew from recieveing communion, I saw him hand his 2 year old daughter the host. She muched on it like a cracker.

Just recently I heart they left the church to go to a non-denom church.
 
I have occassionally "shhhhh"ed noisey older children or adults, or just “gave a look”

However I do say something, if I happen to notice someone not consuming the host, and self-intinction is quite upsetting (If I am offering the cup) Last week, although I was taken by surprise, and never thought I would say anything, I did whisper “you are really not supposed to do that”–Maybe I was prompted by the Holy Spirit, since an EMHC is really not to speak during the ministry. I really dislike when someone speaks to me.
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springbreeze:
Unless you are monitoring the receipt of the Eucharist, why are you looking around at anyone else and why is your focus distracted into looking at other people instead of looking to the Eucharistic celebration and to Jesus on the Altar? If you are going to be the Mass police, well you will always be distracted, you are not there to correct people, you are there to offer Mass and yourself to God and receive God into yourself.
Teresa
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We are instructed to do what we can to avoid irreverence and especially profanation.

from RS
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92. Although each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, at his choice,178 if any communicant should wish to receive the Sacrament in the hand, in areas where the Bishops’ Conference with the recognitio of the Apostolic See has given permission, the sacred host is to be administered to him or her. However, special care should be taken to ensure that the host is consumed by the communicant in the presence of the minister, so that no one goes away carrying the Eucharistic species in his hand. If there is a risk of profanation, then Holy Communion should not be given in the hand to the faithful.179

1. Graviora Delicta

namely:
taking away or retaining the consecrated species for sacrilegious ends, or the throwing them away;281

2. Grave Matters

173. Although the gravity of a matter is to be judged in accordance with the common teaching of the Church and the norms established by her, objectively to be considered among grave matters is anything that puts at risk the validity and dignity of the Most Holy Eucharist: namely, anything that contravenes what is set out above in nos. 48-52, 56, 76-77, 79, 91-92, 94, 96, 101-102, 104, 106, 109, 111, 115, 117, 126, 131-133, 138, 153 and 168. Moreover, attention should be given to the other prescriptions of the Code of Canon Law, and especially what is laid down by canons 1364, 1369, 1373, 1376, 1380, 1384, 1385, 1386, and 1398.

183. In an altogether particular manner, let everyone do all that is in their power to ensure that the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist will be protected from any and every irreverence or distortion and that all abuses be thoroughly corrected. This is a most serious duty incumbent upon each and every one, and all are bound to carry it out without any favoritism.

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Today I correct two protestants who were in line to receive the Eucharist. They ignored me and still recieved Jesus…:nope:
 
It was a youth mass and there were two 6th grade boys sitting in front of me talking and goofing off. I leaned forward and said, “Who wants to sit with me?” I didn’t hear a peep or see them twitch the entire Mass. The woman next to me smiled and later said she liked my style.
 
One morning I took my two sons and two nieces to mass. They were all younger than 12. I happened to look over and noticed my oldest son chewing gum – he was sitting the farthest from me. I got his attention and put my hand out telling him to put the gum in my hand. As I brought my hand back, one wad of gum after another from the other three kids ended up in my hand.
 
i went to a mass at a university i was visiting, and the priest was using what looked like a giant pita for the host.

i didn’t say anything, but felt i should have perhaps addressed the congregation, telling them that the use of anything but unleavened bread in the consecration is both illicit and invalid…
 
My daughter was making her confirmation. There was a continual SCREAMING child in the seat behind me. I seriously could hear nothing the bishop said. I turned around and told the woman with the child that my daughter was making her confirmation and that I could not hear a thing. She became miffed and took the child out. When it came time for peace, she would not even look at me.
 
john doran:
i went to a mass at a university i was visiting, and the priest was using what looked like a giant pita for the host.

i didn’t say anything, but felt i should have perhaps addressed the congregation, telling them that the use of anything but unleavened bread in the consecration is both illicit and invalid…
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I’m not sure, but I think you should first speak to the priest, than the Bishop, if you get no satisfaction. I don’t think it is ever correct procedure to address the congregation.
 
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newf:
My daughter was making her confirmation. There was a continual SCREAMING child in the seat behind me. I seriously could hear nothing the bishop said. I turned around and told the woman with the child that my daughter was making her confirmation and that I could not hear a thing. She became miffed and took the child out. When it came time for peace, she would not even look at me.
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Shame on her.
 
My wife teaches 5th grade PSR, so about once a month or so we get to spend the whole mass keeping kids in line.
 
john doran:
i went to a mass at a university i was visiting, and the priest was using what looked like a giant pita for the host.

i didn’t say anything, but felt i should have perhaps addressed the congregation, telling them that the use of anything but unleavened bread in the consecration is both illicit and invalid…
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Illicit … probably.

Invalid … NOT. The eastern church has never used unlevened bread. The western church (roman rite) did not start using it until the 6th century (It may have been earlier, 4th century?) But in any case, there is no problem using levened bread so long as it is made of wheat.

Illicit, but the use of unlevened bread is a tradition (small t) and ca n be changed by Rome at any time.
Last Sunday I talked to someone after mass about consuming the host immedieately. I was EMHC and noted where he went so I could meet him as he left mass.
 
Yes yesterday at church, i had to tell my older brother to behave, he like started to act up. We were like sitting like two benches infront of the alter. Were the priest, seminarian, and deacon could see. i had to tell my brother to behave. then when mass was over my brother wanted to to throw a grito:nope: or do some kind of dance while the choir was singing the last song :o i was like no lets go.
 
Correct my children during Mass–definitely. How else are they going to learn? My youngest is funny, though–when we take him out, we put him on the cabinet built around the radiator (it is about 4’ off the ground, and it’s known as ‘the hot seat’). Two Sundays ago, as we were leaving, middle son had just captured youngest son who had bolted and was running around inside the church. Our pastor said to me “that one” (indicating youngest son) “is going to be a priest.” Says I: “Oh Father, if God wants him, that’ll be proof of His sense of humor.” He then said that his brother (who is a priest, too) was the same way as a small child. We shall see … (Personally, I think it’s my oldest who is most likely to have a vocation to the priesthood–but I suppose God could want two or three of my children.)

OTOH, I did not say anything (directly) to the family whose son was allowed to play on a Gameboy during Mass :eek: . I found the noises extremely distracting, and had to spend most of the Mass correcting my younger children (oldest was serving at the altar) who kept trying to hang over the back of the pew to get a glimpse of the game. What I wanted to do was snatch the Gameboy, turn it off, and say to the kid “you can have this back when Mass is over. This is time to pay attention to Jesus.”

Sure, sometimes, my kids do slip and say something loud, but at least what they say shows they’ve been taught well and are paying attention (like when my middle son put an arm around his sister and pointed up front at the elevation of the chalice and said, “Look, Kat, there’s the cup of Jesus’ blood!” Not bad for a then-6yo kid–we’re still working on the whisper.)
 
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