Have you ever walked out of church during Mass?

[ljubim]

Concur. Illicit is illicit. However, each of us has to decide the point at which “illicit” becomes so disrespectful or sacrilegious that we must leave. A Mass such as Ljubim described above would certainly qualify as I see it. I would have been out of there as soon as I saw the bandstand next to the altar.
Most Traditionalists in my region of the country do not have the option of attending a Traditional Mass on a regular basis as many of us have to travel a six or eight hour round trip or more to do so. For us here in the land of OCP, it is often an illicit Mass or nothing.

I wish I could have left, but it was the end of a weekend conference and I was driving everybody home. Plus it started at 11, and all the other Masses around had started long before the opening “hymn” if you could call it that. More like the opening mob.

I really don’t think it was illicit - just extremely inappropriate. Sure, irreverent, awful, shameful… but not illicit. As long as the consecration’s valid, I will stay, even if I’m scarred afterwards.

 

[roadsend]

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I really don’t think it was illicit - just extremely inappropriate. Sure, irreverent, awful, shameful… but not illicit. As long as the consecration’s valid, I will stay, even if I’m scarred afterwards.

We all have to make our own call on this one as to when to stay or walk.
I have seen acceptable reasoning in most of the posts on this thread justifying both sides of the issue.

 

[Brywan]

I don’t understand the mindset behind walking out of an “illicit” Mass–

If there is a valid priesthood, valid matter, valid consecration, then Jesus Christ Himself will “show up” on the altar and not walk out. If He is willing to humble Himself and make Himself present at a Mass where there are serious abuses of liturgical norms , then why wouldn’t I want to stay and keep Him company? I want to be present where HE is present. Yes, I would love every Mass to be liturgically “orthodox”–but to walk out when there is some liturgical unorthodoxy is like turning my back on Jesus…His very presence isn’t good enough to keep me there!!! My insight into what is liturgically acceptable is better than His? Sorry, but I don’t get it…

Better to register your complaints through the proper channels at the proper time. IMO The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is not the place for demonstations of displeasure over liturgical abuses…It is better to stay present where Jesus’ sacrifice is made present…

Now, if a female “priest” stands up and offers graham crackers and 7-up in a memorial celebration to the great earth goddess…THEN you can stand up and walk out.

But as long as there is:

     Valid Priesthood
     Valid Matter
     Valid consecration

Then stay seated!! Like a good Catholic, offer up your sufferings over the liturgical abuses to God and enter into the True Worship which cannot be sullied by the mishandling of men.

 

[kyria]

I’ve walked out once I can recall but that was due to my battle with satan at the time and me not wanting to listen to the truth.

There is such a thing as cutting your nose of despite your face. Regardless of whether I am feeling comfortable staying or not, I like what I see or not, I like what I hear or not, nothing is going to stop me from worshipping the Lord and receiving his body in the Eucharist. And if anything is going to stop me from receiving the Lord, it is only when I have fallen into mortal sin, and not been to confession yet, and not anything anybody else has done or said.

The devil works in a number of ways. Whether it is via others or via ourselves. My mum occasionally gets the huff about somethings and storms off, and I am thinking she has just given into satan yet again.

 

[Kamonian_Wax]

I used to have this weird issue where the only breakfast foods that my parents would buy were Corn Flakes, and every Sunday morning before Mass, I would load up my bowl with Flakes and lots… and lots of sugar. Then, during Mass I would end up getting really sweaty and achy while almost fainting. I would end up doing this so often that one day: on the day when our parish was getting consecrated for its first Mass, my mom flipped! She grabbed me by the ear and dragged me all the way out side, even in front of the archbishop while he was spraying the people with the Holy Water, and spanked the faintness out of me! I never hyperventilated again!

 

[Seamus_L]

I never have myself, but have had family and friends who did. My Mom and a number of other Traditional Catholics walked out of church when there priest was replaced and the Latin Mass discontinued at the particular parish.
In the Archdiocese where I live, I have a pretty good idea of what to expect, so it's highly unlikely that I'd be in the situation in the first place. Hypothetically speaking I would do it if I felt it was too irreverent or if I was hearing heretical teaching.

 

[pwl]

You’re not suppost to inhale…

And how I am supposed to drink my beer in church if I can’t inhale - answer me that one Priest?