Weapons of Mass Reconstruction.

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At my parish, the priest and the faithful do many things that I don’t like; I also understand from what I read in this forum that these things should not be done, but I lack the proper weapons (quotes from official church documents) to combat them. Would you please provide those for me, or correct me if some behaviors are in fact acceptable? Thank you!
  1. Holding hands for the Our Father.
  2. Holding hands in a circle around the altar for the Our Father. (During weekday masses with only a few people present.)
  3. Passing the hosts and the cup around the circle described in #2. (Those in the circle not being extraordinary ministers.)
  4. The priest asking the whole congregation to raise their arms to do a “long distance laying on of hands” for whoever is standing in front of the altar (candidates during the Rite of Welcome or those receiving the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick).
  5. Extraordinary Ministers for the Anointing of the Sick (6 old ladies who lay hands on the sick after the priest has laid hands on them).
  6. The priest disregarding the theme of the Gospel reading and turning every homily into a (veiled) political rally for his candidate of choice.
 
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At my parish, the priest and the faithful do many things that I don’t like; I also understand from what I read in this forum that these things should not be done, but I lack the proper weapons (quotes from official church documents) to combat them. Would you please provide those for me, or correct me if some behaviors are in fact acceptable? Thank you!
  1. Holding hands for the Our Father.
  2. Holding hands in a circle around the altar for the Our Father. (During weekday masses with only a few people present.)
  3. Passing the hosts and the cup around the circle described in #2. (Those in the circle not being extraordinary ministers.)
  4. The priest asking the whole congregation to raise their arms to do a “long distance laying on of hands” for whoever is standing in front of the altar (candidates during the Rite of Welcome or those receiving the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick).
  5. Extraordinary Ministers for the Anointing of the Sick (6 old ladies who lay hands on the sick after the priest has laid hands on them).
  6. The priest disregarding the theme of the Gospel reading and turning every homily into a (veiled) political rally for his candidate of choice.
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The only ones that I have any real knowledge of is (1) and (2):The directive given by the Bishop of Pueblo, CO is that holding hands is not appropriate, however for pastoral reasons, parishioners who choose to do so should be allowed to do so.

As far as personal opinion on the others - (3) seems inappropriate. (4) I don’t think there is anything wrong with this. (5) I may be wrong but I think the sacrament is complete when the priest lays his hands on a person so I don’t see any reason why another person laying on hands would be inappropriate as long as everyone realizes that the proper minister of the sacrament is the priest. (6) While I have had several decent pastors who were excellent homilists, I feel for the most part there are a great majority of priests for whom this is a weakness.

I’m not trying to hijack your thread but I have one to add to your list - How about homilies that are longer than the entire Liturgy of the Eucharist?
 
Snowy said:
At my parish, the priest and the faithful do many things that I don’t like; I also understand from what I read in this forum that these things should not be done, but I lack the proper weapons (quotes from official church documents) to combat them. Would you please provide those for me, or correct me if some behaviors are in fact acceptable? Thank you!
  1. Holding hands for the Our Father.
  2. Holding hands in a circle around the altar for the Our Father. (During weekday masses with only a few people present.)
  3. Passing the hosts and the cup around the circle described in #2. (Those in the circle not being extraordinary ministers.)
  4. The priest asking the whole congregation to raise their arms to do a “long distance laying on of hands” for whoever is standing in front of the altar (candidates during the Rite of Welcome or those receiving the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick).
  5. Extraordinary Ministers for the Anointing of the Sick (6 old ladies who lay hands on the sick after the priest has laid hands on them).
  6. The priest disregarding the theme of the Gospel reading and turning every homily into a (veiled) political rally for his candidate of choice.
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Oh Fr. David! He can do number 1. There was a thread about this no more than a month ago.
  1. Redemptoris Sacramentum.
  2. One does not take the Host, unless you are a priest. Rubrics, and probably RS.
  3. Fr. David can probably do something. Laity (for the most part) cannot give blessings.
  4. A waste of time, and useless. Interesting to see the document for this.
  5. Probably some proscription about the homily, although I’m guessing he has some leeway with which to play.
i know I spelled RS wrong, my apologies. However, Googling “Adoremus Bulletin” will help you solve that problem. Great resource!
 
Snowy said:
At my parish, the priest and the faithful do many things that I don’t like; I also understand from what I read in this forum that these things should not be done, but I lack the proper weapons (quotes from official church documents) to combat them. Would you please provide those for me, or correct me if some behaviors are in fact acceptable? Thank you!
  1. Holding hands for the Our Father.
  2. Holding hands in a circle around the altar for the Our Father. (During weekday masses with only a few people present.)
  3. Passing the hosts and the cup around the circle described in #2. (Those in the circle not being extraordinary ministers.)
  4. The priest asking the whole congregation to raise their arms to do a “long distance laying on of hands” for whoever is standing in front of the altar (candidates during the Rite of Welcome or those receiving the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick).
  5. Extraordinary Ministers for the Anointing of the Sick (6 old ladies who lay hands on the sick after the priest has laid hands on them).
  6. The priest disregarding the theme of the Gospel reading and turning every homily into a (veiled) political rally for his candidate of choice.
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  1. The same thing we did at my old fundamentalist protestant church.
  2. I hesitate to even approach the altar- I feel like I’m trespassing
  3. NO! To think that martyrs have died to protect the Host from being profaned by the hands of the unworthy, and now this??
  4. Same thing we did at my old fundamentalist protestant church.
  5. Not sure, but it doesn’t sound right.
  6. I think the homily is totally up to the priest, but it traditionally should stick to the subject at hand.
 
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