Question on iPhones during Mass

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phil19034 said:
Yeah, well my comments have been primarily focused on Sunday mass too.
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Well, I don’t understand. Every parish has missals with readings for Sunday masses. You are spending a lot of time in this thread expressing concern about a problem that doesn’t exist, ie parishes encouraging phone use at Sunday mass.
 
As a brand new catechumen who’s only been to Mass four times, sure! 😀

In all seriousness, I would think so, with a caveat. When I pray the Rosary, I use my phone to read the scriptures associated with the various mysteries, on a prayer app. I also have a good 20 or so other prayers saved on the same app to my favorites. But, whenever I use this app, I turn on airplane mode and Do Not Disturb, as well as turning my ringer and media volume off.

So, in short, find an app to follow along with, don’t leave that app, ensure your phone has no opportunity to distract you or others around you, pay attention up front as well as following the reading, and I think you’ll be good.
 
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phil19034:
Yeah, well my comments have been primarily focused on Sunday mass too.
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Well, I don’t understand. Every parish has missals with readings for Sunday masses. You are spending a lot of time in this thread expressing concern about a problem that doesn’t exist, ie parishes encouraging phone use at Sunday mass.
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Tan - there were people in this very thread (and in other threads I have read about missals) that said their parish stopped buying missals. That’s why I’ve been focused on it.

My concern is Sunday mass. Daily Mass doesn’t concern me that much, though It wouldn’t be expensive to buy a seperate set daily mass missals if a parish wanted to.

If you have an average of 30 people for daily mass, the parish could buy 30-40 daily mass missals not too expensively.
 
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s.cono said:
Lets face it, the church is embracing technology. Is it a lack of discipline that my church offers me a free formed.org subscription, or that at every Sunday mass my church tells me that if I would like to keep abreast of the latest news and happenings in the parish, that I should like them on Facebook?
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Ours even emailed out the homily for last week, because many people couldn’t make it (we had a lot of snow/ice that weekend).
 
What is this fascination with following along with the readings? Nobody in my Church does this. Simply put, that’s the homework you do beforehand. Ideally, you should know your responses at Mass by the time you’re thirteen. For people who are visiting, a missal could potentially help, but the person introducing you to the Mass can also explain beforehand what will happen. In other words, the good deacon and priest prepare for Mass, as does the good parishioner. Besides, by the time you’re middle-aged, would you not know most of the Bible stories? You don’t get to heaven based on your performance at Church so why not just relax and put the gadgets away? The only thing that really matters is the Eucharist, a meal with Jesus, who put down his carpenter’s hammer so he could hold up the bread and then the wine.
 
Exactly! She just puts her phone on Airplane mode so notifications don’t come in and focuses on the text in the app. It works really well for her.
 
Really, where are you located? I haven’t seen a parish without Sunday missals for years (decades) and I have gone to mass in a lot of areas of the US.
 
My fairly well off southern California parish doesn’t have Sunday missals with readings. But as I stated early in this thread, our founding pastor was of the opinion that no one should be reading along and that has kind of stuck over the years. (Most of the nearby parishes DO have disposable missal/hymnals with readings.)

We used to have the yearly Breaking Bread music issue that just had a synopsis of the Sunday readings. But a well off parishioner who thought disposable missal/hymnals were a waste of money left some money for us in his will that was earmarked for hardcover permanent hymnals. So now we have GIA’s Gather 3 hymnal which has a few pages devoted to the basic order of the Mass but no readings. Our chairs have side slots that are just big enough to hold the one hymnal.
 
Well, I believe you, I have been to masses mainly in eastern Nebraska and central and eastern Iowa, I have not run into this.
 
Same here.

Couldn’t go to mass last weekend. The snow was up to my waist. In the middle of another winter storm right now but I was able to make it to mass.
 
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