Is this allowed?

[Crusader]

katolik:

You don’t understand. The early Catholics held the Eucharist in such hugh esteem that they would not want unworthy ones to partake of this mystery. Anyways a Protestant taking the Eucharist during the Mass is still a mortal sin… And in the early days of the CHurch, Catholics wanted to prevent a sacrilege. Do you understand?

Quit trying to spin your earlier posting. We are not talking about ancient times. We are talking about now.

It would be WRONG for any Catholic to keep a well-behaved non-Catholic out of the church during a Mass.

Flat out wrong. No spin, no nothing. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

BTW, these minor orders were most functional well before the Protestant revolt…

 

[Crusader]

albert cipriani:

Greeters are not bad. They are, I’m sure, every bit as decent and good intentioned as everyone on this board, even Crusader! (Humor Alert! Humor Alert! That’s an attempt at good-natured ribbing.)

To be bad is to violate the Natural Law, especially as refined over the centuries by the Magisterium. Greeters are simply (and I mean that in every sense of the word) doing what they are told. This frees them from any personal responsibility in whatever malaise their actions may induce.

We are symbolic creatures. We cannot help but form ideas non-intellectually through the irrational process of association. Such ideas are almost always defective. **Greeters are just one more innovation in the post-conciliar Church that induces another defective idea by association. **Allow me to demonstrate.

At theaters, a ticket taker greets us and directs us to the movie. Office buildings are universally “manned” by women receptionist to greet patrons. Even casinos have their shills, brothels have their madams, and bars have their bouncers. Get the picture?

Secular society employs front-men to take care of customers. When sacred society emulates this well-established practice, the separation between the sacred and the profane is blurred. And it is this blurring that is bad, not the innocent people duped into their roles as greeters. As a sacred society, we should do all that we can to clearly set ourselves apart from secular society, not mush over the distinctions which leads to incorporation. – Sincerely, Albert Cipriani the Traditional Catholic
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Your thought processes are deeply flawed. In essence you brew-up a story attempting to shoot-down any chances arrising from V2. That’s flat-out wrong.

Greeters are not a product of V2 BTW. I didn’t see many porters in Churches in 1968…

 

[bear06]

I’m not anti-Tridentine, so I’ve been to my share in my day even though they are not my preference. There are no greeters at that mass but there are also no greeters at the N.O. in Latin or their english masses. There is also no one there ready to tackle any non-Catholic approaching the Communion line. Do you really have these at your Church? If so, how do you know they are not Catholic? I do know that if anyone saw somebody committing a Eucharistic abuse they would be tackled by just about all but my pregnant friends. There are, however, certain things we can’t know sometimes. Are they Catholic? are they in proper disposition to receive? etc.

 

[albert_cipriani]

Crusader:

Your thought processes are deeply flawed.

That’s helpful. I articulate a 4-paragraph argument using analogies, referencing Natural Law and you come back with that. How informative. How insightful. – Albert Cipriani the Traditional Catholic

 

[ICXCNIKA]

starrs0:

I’m pretty new to the Church I’m a convert whose in RCIA at the moment and I haven’t attened many Masses but during today’s noon Mass we had a child give the first reading and another announce the prayer intentions we also had two kids bring up the bread and wine for the Eucharist I found this to be most puzzling is this even allowed? I’ve also noticed that we have two women that offer the chalice to communicates is This allowed?

Jesus said “Let the children come to me.”

 

[Jermosh]

katolik:

To reiterate my point there are guards at the door of St.Peter’s basilica, checking for proper attire. NOT GREETERS…

The guards are not there to protect the Eucahrist. They are there to protect the pope and the others residing there.

 

[bear06]

They are there to protect the decorum of the Mass and Basillica in general. I’ll give that to katolic. The funny thing is that I believe the Novus Ordo is said there. I don’t believe it’s a Tridenting only parish.

 

[bear06]

Oops! They are there to protect the Pope too but I think they’re there whether or not he is.

 

[OhioBob]

We have greeters at our Masses. They tend to be the same people who bring the gifts to the altar during the offertory procession at a particular Mass. I’m not a big fan of greeters, but I find them pretty harmless.

At some parishes in tourist areas I have appreciated greeters due to the large number of non-parishioners who attend while on vacation. In that case it is nice to be welcomed to a strange parish.

On the other hand, being “greeted” at your own parish seems rather silly.

If we did away with them, I wouldn’t miss them in the least.

 

[katolik]

Crusader:

Quit trying to spin your earlier posting. We are not talking about ancient times. We are talking about now.

It would be WRONG for any Catholic to keep a well-behaved non-Catholic out of the church during a Mass.

Flat out wrong. No spin, no nothing. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

BTW, these minor orders were most functional well before the Protestant revolt…

Wrong,no spin and thrice wrong … what a Byzantine condemnation!!

Spin? what are you talking about ?