This ever happen to you at Mass?

[Apryl]

I would be much more worried about my sin of anger than at what other people thought of me or at what other people did during Mass.

Try your best to put that women’s words and possible intentions out of your mind and focus only your own thoughts, words, and intentions.

(Disclaimer: I haven’t read every post in this thread)

The first post on this thread pointed to Bishopite’s concern about anger during mass. There was contrition for that, and self-admonishment.

From what I could gather from the opening post on this thread, Bishopite IS more worried about the sin of anger than of what others thought.

That said: I’ve experienced something along those lines. Of course, every ones experience is different.

I get very annoyed at people around me, esp those that I know are planning to go to receive Communion, that insist on chewing gum during mass. I’ve also been seen as ‘Bishop Apryl’ because insist on certain postures (displays of reverence). I do not make any effort to be rude, or demanding of the behavior of others.

One Sunday, during the Eucharastic prayers, I was along side of a friend’s husband. I was kneeling, listening to the words, attempting to prepare myself for the communion, and he started talking to me.

I said ‘not now’. His response? “Oh, I just wanted to say…” and kept going.

Talk about angry!! and at the wrong time.

 

[Patrick2340]

First of all, I’d like to point out that righteous anger is not a sin. Anger is, therefore, not always a sin. Jesus practiced righteous anger when He threw the moneychangers out of the temple, and on the many occasions when called the Pharisees a “brood of vipers”.

Secondly, there really is only one person you need satisfy by your actions at Mass - Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. St. Augustine once said that “right is right even though no one is doing it, and wrong is wrong even though everyone is doing it.” If you were following the rubrics of the Mass as set down by Rome, you cannot be in the wrong. If you violated norms set down by the local bishop, you obviously did so unknowingly. Therefore you are still not in the wrong.

I am often in the position where I must travel and attend Mass away from home. When I cannot find the Extraordinary Rite, I go to the Ordinary Rite (and hope it is a reverently celebrated Mass). I then follow the rubrics for the Ordinary Rite as I know them to be. Too often the Ordinary Rite is celebrated illicitly by the priest without or in spite of the direction of the local bishop. While I do not judge the parish, the priest, or the parishioners, I will not willingly participate in rubrics I know to be in violation of the GIRM (e.g. holding hands at the Our Father, standing during the Consecration). Of course, I make an exceptional effort to sit in the very back pew so as not to offend anyone or upset other parishioners.