Have you ever walked out of Mass?

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Annabelle_Marie said:
I believe the other poster was talking about music…which can be VERY subjective… Not about the concentration.
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I think your concentration may have been elsewhere when you were typing because I think you meant consecration. 🙂

Yes, that was a little levity for the thread…and I do mean little.😃 Humor never hurts, right?

Now, back to the thread.
 
john78 said:
…That and for some reason everyone at the contemporary mass at a church in town i go to, feels it necessary to give a round of applause to the choir after they finish. …
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Sometimes the congregation at our Church does this. It depends on who is in attendance because all it takes is one person to start and then others join it. It’s like they have just been to a concert or something. :eek: It just drives me absolutely nuts. I find myself doing what my mother so often told me to do as a child and youth: “Offer it up.”
 
I had this happen yesterday. My girlfriend invited me to a Confirmation Mass, we went in and started praying prior to Mass. That’s when the Choir (Worship Band) started practicing. So I had to excuse myself before Mass started. Thankfully they have a 24hr adoration Chapel where I was able to go for 2 hours.

In this situation, I could either have stayed for Mass and been angry the whole time, or gone to adoration for 2 hours and stayed peaceful and calm. For me personally, bands don’t belong at Mass (it is too charismatic for me), for me it is like being at a Chistian Rock concert or listening to a Christian Music radio station instead of being at Mass. I mean no disrespect to those that love this style of worship, to each their own. If it brings you closer to Christ that is outstanding! 🙂

I wasn’t too shocked by this (for this Parish) I had to leave Adoration there once because they had a kid singing and playing “worship” songs on his guitar during. Again, not for me, so I went to their Adoration Chapel instead and prayed in silence.

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God Bless!
 
roadsend said:
Does that make it OK?
Easter is the most solemn feast in the Church calender. The Blessed sacrament is present in the tabernacle. Folks have not even made it out the door of the church.
Peter Cottontail?
Sheesh.
We have sure changed in the last fifty years.
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No it really doesn’t make it OK. But the thread is about Mass. Did you tell the organist/music director that Peter Cottonail wasn’t the best choice?
 
Corki said:
I wouldn’t say “required” but there are times it is the prudent thing to do. For example, if you have your children with you and the priest is preaching against Church teaching or if you are witnessing something highly irregular such as lay women joining in the Consecration.
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So you would have been quite happy if lay MEN had been joining in?

Why single out women? I assume you did NOT mean you would have been happy with lay men. So why the need to specify women? Why not simply ‘lay people’ or ‘the laity’?
 
Armor_of_Light said:
Not trying to pick a fight here, but I think we’d be required to walk out under some circumstances. Anyone have a thought on this?
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I would only walk out if the priest was in the pulpit publicly preaching heresy, or if he changed the words of the Consectration so badly that the bread and wine were never actually Consecrated.

As for my personal preferences, well, Jesus has to stay there, I guess I can keep him company.🙂

I can honestly say that only once in all my years of Catholicism since Vatican II, traveling around the country attending Mass at different places, I have seen liturgical dancing only once, at a Mass in a hotel ballroom during a conference. I have never seen any serious liturgical abuse, only minor things, in all these years. Not enough to leave Jesus over, even though I may not care for some things.
 
Mrs_Sally said:
No it really doesn’t make it OK. But the thread is about Mass. Did you tell the organist/music director that Peter Cottonail wasn’t the best choice?
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No, but I spoke with the pastor about that and the other music. He was very responsive, until the music director had a talk with him and let him know who was really in charge.
 
number2wilkins said:
is there any way to know just how prevalent these type changes are being made to the mass?

i have just recently left my lutheran church, am atteding mass and waiting for rcia this fall, and while certain “contemporary” practices are wreaking havoc in most lutheran churches, my pipe dream was that it would never occur in a catholic church 🤷
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Welcome to the RCIA program that is coming up for you! May Our Lord guide you always.

Unfortunately Martin Luther left due to corruption in the Church, and then went off on a tangent filled with misunderstandings.

When not-so-good things happen I like to think of St. Francis of Assisi, to whom the Lord said “Francis, repair my Church!.” St. Francis then allowed the Lord to sanctify him to a very high degree, and he had and still is influencing other members of the Body of Christ by his holiness!

We all have free will,and can choose to glorify God by our actions, or detract and confuse ourselves and others.
What the members of the Catholic Church do or do not do, does not eclipse the truth that Jesus teaches us through the Church.

We can surrender to Him and ask Him to make a difference through us so we can be a light to others.
 
The first time I went to Mass since I was a child was to an Easter Vigil with my husband. We had NO idea that the Mass would be 3 hours long. As Protestants, we figured it would be an hour or so. We were totally unprepared for that, hadn’t eaten for several hours, so we left about halfway through.

Before I was received into the Church, sometimes I would leave when they began distributing Communion.

Now that I am Catholic, I would never walk out of a Mass, no matter how “bad” it was, unless I got sick or something.
 
I’ve walked out a few times - and always before Mass begins - when a certain priest showed up unscheduled. I could bear being at one of his Masses. Go figure that later he became the assistant at a place where I worked and I had no choice but to stay. Sometimes you run away and you get caught anyway. 🤷
 
The_Curt_Jester said:
I’ve walked out a few times - and always before Mass begins - when a certain priest showed up unscheduled. I could bear being at one of his Masses. Go figure that later he became the assistant at a place where I worked and I had no choice but to stay. Sometimes you run away and you get caught anyway. 🤷
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Jonah tried to run away too.

Maybe God is trying to tell you something?

-Tim-
 
maltmom said:
You better look over your shoulder. God works in mysterious ways.
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I haven’t described (and I don’t intend to) WHY I walked out on this priest’s Mass. I don’t just leave because of a personal dislike for a priest (and actually, I got along with him quite well). It might be a good idea to give me the benefit of the doubt on my reasons. Thank you.
 
SwizzleStick said:
Sometimes the congregation at our Church does this. It depends on who is in attendance because all it takes is one person to start and then others join it. It’s like they have just been to a concert or something. :eek: It just drives me absolutely nuts. I find myself doing what my mother so often told me to do as a child and youth: “Offer it up.”
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Same issue at my parish.I have gone as far as e mailing the choir director,asking him to address this issue at the beginning of Mass…never heard back from him,guess he took my suggestion personally:rolleyes:
 
I would walk out if I walked into a Church with an upside down crucifix and a priest dressed in a black hooded robe, in the middle of the elevation. :eek:
 
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