Mass Annoucements bug me

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choy said:
ideally it should be after the final blessing. but truth is, who’d be left in the church at that time? most people have left even before the priest have left the altar
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Same thing for my parish.:rotfl: Not only that he throws in some random joke after the announcements. THEN he makes the final blessing.
 
Oh my gosh, I love announcements!
They’re always about 5 - 10 minutes, I don’t think that’s too long, and it’s how I really know what’s going on in the parish. Yes, MOST of the same stuff is in the bulletin (not all) but sometimes the bulletin doesn’t get read until days later, and by then I missed half the events!
Besides, I’ll be making announcements regarding the upcoming VBS, which I’ll be running, so you betchya I like announcements! (Well, I like them if it gets me participants and volunteers!!!)
 
rwillenborg said:
Oh my gosh, I love announcements!
They’re always about 5 - 10 minutes, I don’t think that’s too long, and it’s how I really know what’s going on in the parish. Yes, MOST of the same stuff is in the bulletin (not all) but sometimes the bulletin doesn’t get read until days later, and by then I missed half the events!
Besides, I’ll be making announcements regarding the upcoming VBS, which I’ll be running, so you betchya I like announcements! (Well, I like them if it gets me participants and volunteers!!!)
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Same here! 🙂
 
Our newest pastor of one year has done away with the endless “thank yous” following Christmas and Easter Masses, thank goodness. But he is big on bulletins and announcements after Mass. A minute of announcements just seems like 5 minutes, I think. The bulletin is packed every week with an additional 3 to 7 fliers. ( I do think we could save money by not using all of the paper.) But our pastor thinks it is important. Some people love to read everything in the bulletin, some won’t even take one home.
 
At my church, the announcements are done during the collection. They never take more than two minutes and then the choir starts to sing. It seems like a good time to get them. 🙂
 
mslemay said:
At my church, the announcements are done during the collection. They never take more than two minutes and then the choir starts to sing. It seems like a good time to get them. 🙂
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Actually, according to the Roman Missal, the announcements should be made after the post-Communion prayer, and, these should be brief.
 
zab said:
Our newest pastor of one year has done away with the endless “thank yous” following Christmas and Easter Masses, thank goodness. But he is big on bulletins and announcements after Mass. A minute of announcements just seems like 5 minutes, I think. The bulletin is packed every week with an additional 3 to 7 fliers. ( I do think we could save money by not using all of the paper.) But our pastor thinks it is important. Some people love to read everything in the bulletin, some won’t even take one home.
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Oh how I hate the endless thank-yous! A ‘thanks to Susie and everyone else who helped make the sanctuary beautiful’ is quite enough. This isnt the oscars people. If you don’t mention that I, specifically, watered the plants (or whatever) I promise my feelings won’t get hurt.
does your parish only print on one side of the paper? Our parish does. they’ll say ‘We aren’t putting any more fliers in the bulletins’ and then I’ll see there were TWO fliers, each printed on ONE side. I’m like ‘Uh, there’s a better way, y’know…’
 
But they are so important.
when I did mass at one church I would have to bring my pet rat in her cage on days she was at the vet. so I left her in the office on the desk. but people would go into the office and feed her junk food which was no good for her. I had to have a notice in the bulletin just to get people to stop feeding her. she shot up from a svelte 11 ozs to a huge 2 lbs just over christmas.
 
PatriceA said:
Our parish has the announcements before mass begins, and its usually only last minute stuff that didn’t make the bulletin deadline for that week.
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same with my parish … before mass begins
 
FrCorey said:
But they are so important.
when I did mass at one church I would have to bring my pet rat in her cage on days she was at the vet. so I left her in the office on the desk. but people would go into the office and feed her junk food which was no good for her. I had to have a notice in the bulletin just to get people to stop feeding her. she shot up from a svelte 11 ozs to a huge 2 lbs just over christmas.
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:confused:

I’m hoping this is a joke. 🙂
 
FrCorey said:
But they are so important.
when I did mass at one church I would have to bring my pet rat in her cage on days she was at the vet. so I left her in the office on the desk. but people would go into the office and feed her junk food which was no good for her. I had to have a notice in the bulletin just to get people to stop feeding her. she shot up from a svelte 11 ozs to a huge 2 lbs just over christmas.
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And you can recycle the paper by using them in the cage.🙂
 
FrCorey said:
nah, she prefers tv to printed matter.
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My rat liked both: watching TV while curled up on DH’s chest & sitting on the paper to prevent me from turning the pages while looking at me with a ‘now whatcha gonna do?’ expression.
 
If announcements are necessary they are supposed to be after the Prayer after Communion and just before the final blessing and dismissal. Unfortunately, too often they are placed between the distribution of Communion and the Prayer After Communion.

This is how my parish does announcements.
 
Announcements are totally unnecessary if they are in the bulletin. Everyone knows you are supposed to read them while the priest is preaching the homily! 😃
 
Phemie said:
My rat liked both: watching TV while curled up on DH’s chest & sitting on the paper to prevent me from turning the pages while looking at me with a ‘now whatcha gonna do?’ expression.
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she likes the cartoon network.
I bought a rat proof cage for her once, took her 3 weeks to figure out how to open it. one day I get up and she is on the sofa eatting a donut and watching tv. a freind gave me a roomba last year, first she would chase it like a rat out of heck, then she caught it and learned to ride it. rat on a roomba, mmm, mmm, good.
 
FrCorey said:
she likes the cartoon network.
I bought a rat proof cage for her once, took her 3 weeks to figure out how to open it. one day I get up and she is on the sofa eatting a donut and watching tv. a freind gave me a roomba last year, first she would chase it like a rat out of heck, then she caught it and learned to ride it. rat on a roomba, mmm, mmm, good.
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Nobody ever said, convincingly, that rats are dumb.😉
 
Irishmom2 said:
Announcements are totally unnecessary if they are in the bulletin. Everyone knows you are supposed to read them while the priest is preaching the homily! 😃
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What do you do about things that come up after the bulletin has been sent to the printers (usually on Wednesday mornings), but before Sunday Mass? For example, repairs to water damage in the library after Thursday’s storm means that the Bible Study will be meeting in the Rectory this week, and stuff like that?
 
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