No holding hands during the "Our Father"

[JKirkLVNV]

And there have been repeated comments by knowledgeable Protestants and ex-Protestants that they had never seen such until they came to the Catholic Church; if one wants to make the statement that it is a “protestentizing” of the Mass, one should at least back it up with factual information instead of just a slur.

Yeah, I go get sick of this “protestantizing” of the Mass thing (regardless of how I feel about hand-holding in Mass). It really betrays a laughable ignorance of Protestants (which is fine, but don’t offer comment about what you don’t know about). Hand-holding was never a feature in the Protestant church of my youth, nor the Episcopal Church when I attended there, until the last parish I belong to, where they DID hold hands during the Our Father, but it was LONG after the Catholics a block down had started.

 

[Ad_Deum]

I think yu and your husband can hold hands because I don’t see anything wrong with that. But don’t extend your arms like the priest because that is not in the traditional rubrics only the priest can extend arms.

Pax
Laudater Jesus Christus
Instaurare omnia in Christo

 

[Newbie2]

But let’s say that you do?

Then what?