Is clapping to the music at Mass appropriate?

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pianistclare said:
I’ve been to lots of Tenebrae services (never n a Catholic church though) and they don’t do that. 🤷
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Well, this may be a good time to introduce it 👍 My parish is fairly traditional and does this so it’s more than likely in good standings
 
I have heard of parishes where they clap after the homily. Different cultures.

Give thanks and praise to the Lord for giving the human race the potential for such diversity!
 
RCbkr said:
There doesn’t have to be applause for Mass music to be considered a performance. Pretty much all feast days and at many other “regular” Masses at my church finds the choir (sometimes just the paid professionals in it) singing the liturgy with the congregation just listening. As someone who likes to sing, it does feel strange and sometimes annoying when I stand in silence while being serenaded with the Kyrie, Gloria, and Agnus Dei. Beautiful as it is being performed, I’d still rather be singing my own prayers.
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Indeed, as I recall, the GIRM says the cantor and/or choir should support and encourage singing in the congregation, not supplant it!
 
RCbkr said:
There doesn’t have to be applause for Mass music to be considered a performance. Pretty much all feast days and at many other “regular” Masses at my church finds the choir (sometimes just the paid professionals in it) singing the liturgy with the congregation just listening. As someone who likes to sing, it does feel strange and sometimes annoying when I stand in silence while being serenaded with the Kyrie, Gloria, and Agnus Dei. Beautiful as it is being performed, I’d still rather be singing my own prayers.
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Any chance you could be part of the choir?
 
Bballer32 said:
Well, this may be a good time to introduce it 👍 My parish is fairly traditional and does this so it’s more than likely in good standings
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Oh this again, :rolleyes:

My parish is doing fine thanks.
Good and holy priest.
No liturgical abuse.
Honest.
 
I voted no. I just don’t feel it is appropriate at mass and really takes away from the reverence and awe of the mass.
 
pianistclare said:
Oh this again, :rolleyes:

My parish is doing fine thanks.
Good and holy priest.
No liturgical abuse.
Honest.
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Haha I was just trying to give credibility to the practice 😃

I’m glad to here that your parish is doing great! Sounds like the priest is pretty legit 👍
 
We never clap during the music.

We sometimes applaud after the closing hymn to thank the members of the music ministry for their efforts for us.
 
yeah, we clap to applaud the choir after the
end of the recessional and the end of the last
hymn.
 
Neofight said:
yeah, the nerve of those people who were hooting and hollering when he came to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to enter into his passion! 🤷
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Look at how sincere their applause. Next day they called for Barabbas. Thus is the shallowness of the earth sown with the seeds of emotion.
 
Petaro said:
Look at how sincere their applause. Next day they called for Barabbas. Thus is the shallowness of the earth sown with the seeds of emotion.
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That’s pretty harsh. There IS such a thing as joy.
And it’s all over Scripture. We should indeed express it at Mass where are given the most sublime gift.
I’m not in favor of clapping, but I don’t think an honest expression of fervor should be condemned either.
 
Petaro said:
Look at how sincere their applause. Next day they called for Barabbas. Thus is the shallowness of the earth sown with the seeds of emotion.
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I doubt some of the sincerity myself, especially in vocal prayers, but I wonder how much of this can be attributed to human fickleness in general.
 
I could not answer the poll question because the correct answer is not listed. In general , applause is to be discouraged. But that is not an absolute rule. “There are some cultures where hand-clapping is a spontaneous sign of respect and even veneration”.
ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur254.htm
 
Nope. Nay. Never. 🙂

(And as an aside, maybe one day we can again call things right and wrong, valid and invalid, decent and indecent — and refrain from having to use psychologically correct phrases like appropriate and inappropriate. :p)
 
AttendeDomine said:
Nope. Nay. Never. 🙂

(And as an aside, maybe one day we can again call things right and wrong, valid and invalid, decent and indecent — and refrain from having to use psychologically correct phrases like appropriate and inappropriate. :p)
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I thought Fr Edward McNamara Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum answered the question very well. 😛 ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur254.htm
 
I voted “No, never.”

But after reading some of the responses I am reminded that I am thinking strictly of the white, anglo-American culture to which I belong. In some cultures around the world, I can see clapping during and as a part of the song as appropriate.

Clapping in appreciation of the song itself or those singing it, I would still say never, as the right response is that it is not a performance, but a bringing forth our gifts of song to the ultimate gift of the Lord himself.
 
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