People: And also with you. Priest: Thank you

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Has anyone else experienced this Thank you business? It drives me crazy. (If that’s uncharitable I’m sorry.) What is surprising is that I first heard it at Steubenville The priests there are all very orthodox. Does a priest have to thank us after we wish him that the Lord be with him also? Maybe I’m wrong, but I find it disruptive of the flow, and I feel it is just some silly little innovation someone thought of to “shake things up.” It really doesn’t seem OK.
 
after our pastor makes the sign of the cross at the beginning he’ll say “I didn’t hear that amen” and we all say amen louder.:confused:
 
Blueberry said:
Has anyone else experienced this Thank you business? It drives me crazy. (If that’s uncharitable I’m sorry.) What is surprising is that I first heard it at Steubenville The priests there are all very orthodox. Does a priest have to thank us after we wish him that the Lord be with him also? Maybe I’m wrong, but I find it disruptive of the flow, and I feel it is just some silly little innovation someone thought of to “shake things up.” It really doesn’t seem OK.
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The priests dont do that where I go. I don’t think its correct either.
 
reff said:
after our pastor makes the sign of the cross at the beginning he’ll say “I didn’t hear that amen” and the we all say amen louder.:confused:
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Does he have Baptist leanings? My baptist friend does that all the time and it drives me nuts.:mad:
 
Yes, I know one priest who does that. It is so pretentiously humble. I wonder what he’d do if we all replied “thank you” to him as well.
 
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Thank you.
You’re welcome.

😃
 
He shouldn’t because we’re not saying “and also with you” to the priest, we are saying it to the Whole Church

*Dominus vobiscum

Et cum spirito tuo*

The priest is speaking on behalf of the Church

Xc
Pat
 
notsmart said:
Does he have Baptist leanings? My baptist friend does that all the time and it drives me nuts.:mad:
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yes he does, when he gives his homilies he really gets into it and shouts amen then the congregation shouts amen.
 
Blueberry said:
Has anyone else experienced this Thank you business? It drives me crazy. (If that’s uncharitable I’m sorry.) What is surprising is that I first heard it at Steubenville The priests there are all very orthodox. Does a priest have to thank us after we wish him that the Lord be with him also? Maybe I’m wrong, but I find it disruptive of the flow, and I feel it is just some silly little innovation someone thought of to “shake things up.” It really doesn’t seem OK.
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Yep! My pastor, who makes up makes up nearly everything has this as the invitation to the sign of peace (which is optional, so is he omitting it and just not inturupting us once we start it? I think not; like I said, he makes up nearly all the words).
 
totustuus2345 said:
He shouldn’t because we’re not saying “and also with you” to the priest, we are saying it to the Whole Church

*Dominus vobiscum

Et cum spirito tuo*

The priest is speaking on behalf of the Church

Xc
Pat
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It’s strange then that we use a singular form of the word “you”, unless one is addressing “the Church” as a singular unit.

I don’t know that I’ve heard many priests say, “Thank you,” but I’ve heard more than one say, “Good morning,” and then repeat it a bit louder if they didn’t get a, “Good morning, Father,” in response.
 
SMHW said:
It’s strange then that we use a singular form of the word “you”, unless one is addressing “the Church” as a singular unit.

I don’t know that I’ve heard many priests say, “Thank you,” but I’ve heard more than one say, “Good morning,” and then repeat it a bit louder if they didn’t get a, “Good morning, Father,” in response.
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English has the same word for the second person plural AND singular

YOU YOU

VOBISCUM is the second person PLURAL in Latin, so it makes sense, that we are speaking to the Church as whole
 
Blueberry said:
Has anyone else experienced this Thank you business? It drives me crazy. (If that’s uncharitable I’m sorry.) What is surprising is that I first heard it at Steubenville The priests there are all very orthodox. Does a priest have to thank us after we wish him that the Lord be with him also? Maybe I’m wrong, but I find it disruptive of the flow, and I feel it is just some silly little innovation someone thought of to “shake things up.” It really doesn’t seem OK.
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I have never heard that, it sounds like an accidental, isolated incident.
 
totustuus2345 said:
English has the same word for the second person plural AND singular

YOU YOU

VOBISCUM is the second person PLURAL in Latin, so it makes sense, that we are speaking to the Church as whole
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Isn’t tuo singular? We reply “And also with you [singular]”
 
reff said:
yes he does, when he gives his homilies he really gets into it and shouts amen then the congregation shouts amen.
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I’m really sorry. I am sure your faith is solid like a rock to sit through that and offer it up. I want to be like you when I become a catholic! No matter how hard its going to be to put up with odd things, I wont let it stop me as long as I am okay with the teachings. The individuals can be really off or on it seems.🤷

Prayers for you and your priest and parish. I would be going nuts through the whole Mass!:o
 
Thats interesting that you first heard it at Steubenville, because like you said, most of the priests are fairly orthodox, maybe not Traditional, but certainly they follow rubrics.

I am in fact at Steubenville now for my schooling, and have been here the past three summers for conferences, and I have not had one priest out of the probably dozen or more I have heard say Mass tell us Thank You.
 
totustuus2345 said:
English has the same word for the second person plural AND singular

YOU YOU

VOBISCUM is the second person PLURAL in Latin, so it makes sense, that we are speaking to the Church as whole
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Actually I was referring to “tuo”.

I guess I don’t get the logic that because we use the singular “tuo” it follows that we are addressing the Church rather than the priest. Obviously if it is a given that “tuo” refers to the Church then it must be addressing the Church as a singular unit.
 
totustuus2345 said:
He shouldn’t because we’re not saying “and also with you” to the priest, we are saying it to the Whole Church

*Dominus vobiscum

Et cum spirito tuo*

The priest is speaking on behalf of the Church

Xc
Pat
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I thought “et cum spiritu tuo” was in reference to the fact that the priest is ‘in persona Christi’. :confused: We are not addressing the priest personally but neither are we addressing each other.

When you think about it in Latin, “Thank you” makes no sense at all.
 
So I’m getting a little confused here…we will be changing the words “And also with you” in the near future back to “And with your spirit” (if I understand this correctly.) So why will the priest say "The Lord be with YOU, and not “The Lord be with YOUR SPIRIT” ? The response is not consistent with the statement. What am I not understanding here?
 
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