Have you ever walked out of Mass?

[Irishgal49]

Have you ever walked out of Mass? particularly Modern Masses where you couldnt bear the music or a certain Priest or sermon? or other reasons?

I have stomped off when it’s done but never walked out. My priest and I butt heads and he preached something perfectly appropriate but I got totally ticked off. So it was my problem not the fault of anyone else, but you didn’t ask that.

Lorrie

 

[etomaria]

I love this analogy - but it is not sitting right with me. Jesus got upset because it was His Father’s house. The Mass/church is not our father’s house, so it is not ours to show displeasure with. I almost want to believe you would get “extra points” for attending a horribly disruptive Mass. It is still the Eucharist either way. I’d also be afraid of putting conditions on God.

Dunno, if you think about how Jesus is present and the fact that where Jesus is, God the Father is also, you could easily make a case… But all in all, I think that there are very minor things that are being allowed to bother us, like was said really well a few pages back, if Jesus is there, we might as well keep him company!

-Maria :]

 

[etomaria]

Pictures are often used to imply logical fallacies that would not fly if stated verbally, as in:

1. Homosexuals use rainbows as symbols.
2. The stole is colorful like a rainbow.
3. The priest is symbolizing homosexuality.

Maybe this is gonna sound a bit out-of-touch, but whatever – the rainbow may be being used by homosexuals as a symbol, but it was many hundreds of years before that used as a sign of God’s promise… So, without knowing these people and/or having been there, it’s rather impossible to conclude certainly that the priest is symbolizing homosexuality. Atleast, that’s how I see it…

-Maria

 

[etomaria]

I have but I was about to pass out in the pew. Hypoglycemia is fun! Honestly though, I really felt terrible about leaving, like I was being disrespectful. I figured quietly removing myself was better than an EMT disruption.

Entirely unrelated to the topic at hand, but I used to verge on passing out during church, from about age 8 to about age 23! Nearly every Sunday while pregnant! Once I modified my eating to exclude most carbs and include lots more meat and butter and cream (I won’t get into all of it here), it stopped! Hasn’t happened since!

Alrite, enough totally-off-topic-ness from me, just thought I’d try and help cuz I was happy to be rid of all that, by all means ignore it!

-Maria :]

 

[adopted_heir]

My first pregnancy, I couldn’t take any kind of bread, I mean any. It wouldn’t go down. And if it did go down… it didn’t stay. That was before I started attending the TLM parish in another town, so after talking to the priest he said it was okay to just receive the Precious Blood. In the TLM parish, where it’s crowded and can get stuffy if the stars aren’t aligned just right, I still get faint and seasick and have to step outside. Fortunately there are windows so I can see and usually hear to follow along, so I don’t have to really ‘walk out’–just spread out a little.

 

[L_Marshall]

Will you please explain what this means. As a new Catholic it’s a term I haven’t heard before. Thanks

Truncating is when the host is dipped into the Precious Blood. It’s an action reserved for priests.

 

[SwizzleStick]

Truncating is when the host is dipped into the Precious Blood. It’s an action reserved for priests.

I’ve only heard that called intinction, when the priest dips the body of Christ into the Precious Blood. Lay people should not do it, so it is an action reserved for priests. I’ve never before heard that being referred to as truncating. Truncating to me means to shorten, to stop abruptly, to cut off, and nothing to do with Catholicism. Are you perhaps confusing terms?

 

[Jacob18]

“Only one person left the Last Supper early.”

I do not recall ever leaving mass early, but it seemed to be a problem in my parish for people to do so. (For Lent, we were asked to stay at mass until the end…)