Poll: Celebrating a sports win during the Mass

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fredystairs said:
We had a priest at our parish who was a diehard Green Bay Packers fan. He would occasionally mention them in his homily but it always related back to the readings. I always thought that it helped make the message of the readings a little more concrete and I never had a problem with it.
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I see no harm in that.
 
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Yeah, no harm if they mention it in their sermons if it relates, but Mass is not the time or the place to be promoting your favorite sports team.
 
The Mass is about celebrating the Eucharist and giving thanks to God. We shouldn’t be announcing petty human accomplishments when Jesus should be at the center of the moment after Communion.
 
not really

once the ny rangers tanked; i stopped caring about the nhl

notre dame hockey gave us a good ride; made it to the frozen 4, but ultimately were defeated by a team i KNEW was going to defeat them (minnesota-duluth) in the national championship game

that’s the way the cookie crumbles… 😦
 
giuseppe96 said:
The Mass is about celebrating the Eucharist and giving thanks to God. We shouldn’t be announcing petty human accomplishments when Jesus should be at the center of the moment after Communion.
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Then they need to stop announcements after that in general.
 
Applause during Mass is generally not appropriate. The Mass is not a theatrical performance.

Pope Benedict:
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.
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Would applause for anything - maybe especially a silly ball game - be appropriate while walking down Calvary, having just been present at the Cross of Christ?

Catechism 1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the eucharist are one single sacrifice.
 
Thanks for that quote from Pope Benedict XVI. In case some have wondered where the quote is: It is from his book, The Spirit of the Liturgy. See other of his comments HERE.
 
In the Ordinary Form of the Mass it often seems that announcements are made before the dismissal (ie. the end of Mass). Perhaps this should not be the case.
 
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While in the EF, they don’t want to have to do the announcements in Latin?
 
DignumEtJustum said:
In the Ordinary Form of the Mass it often seems that announcements are made before the dismissal (ie. the end of Mass). Perhaps this should not be the case.
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People may not like announcements at that point in the Mass (and I can certainly understand and sympathize with that feeling), but the General Instruction of the Roman Missal allows for it: (emphasis added)
  1. The concluding rites consist of
    a. Brief announcements, if they are necessary;
    b. The priest’s greeting and blessing, which on certain days and occasions is enriched and expressed in the prayer over the People or another more solemn formula;
    c. The dismissal of the people by the deacon or the priest, so that each may go out to do good works, praising and blessing God;
    d. The kissing of the altar by the priest and the deacon, followed by a profound bow to the altar by the priest, the deacon, and the other ministers.
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I can understand why people think it’s not fitting, and I’m sure some priests go a bit overboard in this regard. It’s not the hill I’m going to die on, though.

I know a priest who is about as orthodox as they come and he deliberately plays up his affinity for a certain sports team (yes, sometimes even during the announcements) because it endears him to the people. I’m not really into sports myself, but I’m certainly not going to tell him he should stop doing that.

How about we all go pray for our priests instead?
 
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DignumEtJustum said:
In the Ordinary Form of the Mass it often seems that announcements are made before the dismissal (ie. the end of Mass). Perhaps this should not be the case.
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Right, why aren’t the announcements made during the sermon? That’s when announcements are made in my parish, and it works great.
 
It’s allowed, so what? What I’m saying is that perhaps it shouldn’t be. Just because it’s in the GIRM doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be changed.
 
BridgetN said:
Right, why aren’t the announcements made during the sermon? That’s when announcements are made in my parish, and it works great
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During the homily would bug me. That’s smack in the middle of the Mass.
 
Yeah, but not really, you’re in for a long break for the homily, why not just get the announcements done and over with, so that you can be saying your thanksgiving uninterrupted after communion?
 
Good point.

I’ve wondered why they’re not at the opening. I can only speak for the services I’ve been to here, but for the most part before the entrance procession there are a few opening words, in the parishes I’ve visited, the one I attend, all the way up to the Cathedral.

Of course the alternate is “actually read the bulletin”, which is also fair.
 
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