Holding hands during the Our Father?

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ElizabethPH said:
I never hold hands…never have, folks try to grab my hand and I just don’t take it. It’s embarrassing for them I guess; once the priest ask everyone to join hands and I still didn’t do it…and the lady next to me poked me and I ignored her. I sort of felt bad about that. I never have done the hand raising thing either.
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When I’m in one of those hand-holding chuches, I just keep my hands clasped together in prayer, and once when someone tried to grab my hand, it wasn’t my hand that they grabbed! :o People should just keep their hands to themselves, if the person next to them has not extended their hand.
 
paramedicgirl said:
When I’m in one of those hand-holding chuches, I just keep my hands clasped together in prayer, and once when someone tried to grab my hand, it wasn’t my hand that they grabbed! :o People should just keep their hands to themselves, if the person next to them has not extended their hand.
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:bigyikes: did you show them you were from Kicking Horse Country?

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My priest in college started us all doing it, the whole congregation held hands together. Another priest from my home town also does it.
 
I was hoping to find an online community of believers who were a little more open minded. The sheer negativity and ferocity of the attacks, focused on my posting, leave me a bit confused. So many people think they have all the answers that they are closed to alternative ideas. Anything that leads a person to Christ is good.

Holding hands during the Our Father is personal choice. Any good discussion must recognize this. By the intensity of the responses it is clear that prople are afraid. If your faith is strong you need not fear an open discussion of mass celebrations practices that are alternative. If this is a representation of the evangilization technique currently practiced, it leaves a lot to be desired. If I was looking to better understand Catholicism I might believe that the Church (people) was a bit angry.

I pray that the Holy Spirit whisper into our ears and that we listen to the message. We can turn that intensity into an evangilization force to be reckoned with. Fear can be forced out, and tolerance for opposing opinions, in matters of personal choice, can be increased.
 
Saint_Jerome said:
I was hoping to find an online community of believers who were a little more open minded. The sheer negativity and ferocity of the attacks, focused on my posting, leave me a bit confused. So many people think they have all the answers that they are closed to alternative ideas. Anything that leads a person to Christ is good.

Holding hands during the Our Father is personal choice. Any good discussion must recognize this. By the intensity of the responses it is clear that prople are afraid. If your faith is strong you need not fear an open discussion of mass celebrations practices that are alternative. If this is a representation of the evangilization technique currently practiced, it leaves a lot to be desired. If I was looking to better understand Catholicism I might believe that the Church (people) was a bit angry.

I pray that the Holy Spirit whisper into our ears and that we listen to the message. We can turn that intensity into an evangilization force to be reckoned with. Fear can be forced out, and tolerance for opposing opinions, in matters of personal choice, can be increased.
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The Holy Spirit indwells within the Church. We who hear Him speak thru the Church have no need of alternative and can stand up to misrepresentation with no fear.
 
Walking_Home said:
The Holy Spirit indwells within the Church. We who hear Him speak thru the Church have no need of alternative and can stand up to misrepresentation with no fear.
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Once again people wear their fear on their sleeves. If you read the Gospels it is pretty clear that the Apostles did not get the message the first time they heard it. Not having all the answers is what makes us search out guidance from the Holy Spirit. Jesus told us that he would send the Parachlete to guide us, because we do not have all the answers. We are the Church, you and me, and we both believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As long as we have that, and the Holy Spirit, we will meet in heaven on the last day. What else matters?
 
Saint_Jerome said:
Once again people wear their fear on their sleeves. If you read the Gospels it is pretty clear that the Apostles did not get the message the first time they heard it. Not having all the answers is what makes us search out guidance from the Holy Spirit. Jesus told us that he would send the Parachlete to guide us, because we do not have all the answers. We are the Church, you and me, and we both believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. As long as we have that, and the Holy Spirit, we will meet in heaven on the last day. What else matters?
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If you believe— that at 2000 years the Church has it wrong----you have been greatly misled. Only those that have fallen pray to the manipulations of false words — would consider such a thought. Unfortunately the name of the Holy Spirit is being used to guide many away from Christ’s Church. Our Lord is the foundation of the Church and we are part of it. So yes–you and I are part of the Church if you also abide by who She is.
 
I’m still holding hands at Mass and so is everyone else around me. 👍
 
Since Instrument Laboris states-- that the proper structure and elements for the celebration of the Eucharist are in the GIRM—where in the GIRM does it state that we hold hands. This also goes for any other action that is not proper to the GIRM.

From Instumentum Laboris

vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents/rc_synod_doc_20050707_instrlabor-xi-assembly_en.html
  1. The proper structure and elements of the celebration of the Eucharist are explained in The General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, especially in the Byzantine tradition—the most diffused in the Eastern Catholic Churches—and other traditions. The celebration of the Eucharist calls for a humble obedience to these canonical norms by the priest and ministers.
 
I remember attending a Mass several years ago where the priest told the congregation they SHOULD raise their hands in the air during the Lord’s Prayer, rather than hold hands…that it was more liturgically correct.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that now we have people doing many different things at the same time…don’t blame the poor confused folks in the pews…they are trying to follow the instructions of Father Whomever who told them to do it whatever way is now their habit.

If the priest would take the time to explain what we should be doing and why, I’m sure it would, in time, be rectified. But I can’t recall anyone doing that in recent years.
 
I always thought that hand holding in prayer was a Protestant thing to keep the Catholics from making the sign of the cross. . . :eek:
 
Pax2u said:
I remember attending a Mass several years ago where the priest told the congregation they SHOULD raise their hands in the air during the Lord’s Prayer, rather than hold hands…that it was more liturgically correct.

So we shouldn’t be surprised that now we have people doing many different things at the same time…don’t blame the poor confused folks in the pews…they are trying to follow the instructions of Father Whomever who told them to do it whatever way is now their habit.

If the priest would take the time to explain what we should be doing and why, I’m sure it would, in time, be rectified. But I can’t recall anyone doing that in recent years.
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Yes —many a priest is responsible for what we are suffering thru now. Yet—we are also responsible when we turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the directives and information that is coming from Rome.
 
davy39 said:
I do hold hands during the Our Father. I would just as soon not do it, but my wife insists. What really bugs me is when somebody thumps you on the back from the pew behind, and wants to hold hands. If I wanted to hold theirs, I would have turned around and did it. Sometimes they make you feel like a corkscrew.
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I’ve never held hands during the Our Father until Mass yesterday. My friend and another friend of hers came to sit with me and they hold hands, so I did too. I’d rather fold my hands but I didn’t want to hurt her feelings.
 
kaygee said:
I always thought that hand holding in prayer was a Protestant thing to keep the Catholics from making the sign of the cross. . . :eek:
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I had never heard that but given the way that most Protestants feel about the Catholic Church I would not doubt it for a minute.

It makes as much or more sense than most of the other opinions I’ve heard about it.
 
Saint_Jerome said:
By the intensity of the responses it is clear that prople are afraid. If your faith is strong you need not fear an open discussion of mass celebrations practices that are alternative. If this is a representation of the evangilization technique currently practiced, it leaves a lot to be desired. If I was looking to better understand Catholicism I might believe that the Church (people) was a bit angry.
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I think it’s safe to say that the intensity of the responses is actually brought about by the fact that some people can’t distinguish between things that are matters of personal choice and things that are official Church teaching. That, and the fact that there are those who clearly have not educated themselves on said Church teachings, but who still feel competent to declare what is a matter of personal choice.
 
I don’t like the hand holding and I don’t know where it came from, but we didn’t do that when I was growing up and it seems weird. I don’t like shaking hands either because I don’t want to give old people and pregnant ladies my germs and I don’t want anyone else’s. Frankly. And I wish our bishop would tell our parishoners the same thing Tantum Ergo’s bishop told them. Two ladies in front of us were talking aloud right before mass today. Sheesh!
 
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