What was the most egregious liturgical abuse you ever witnessed?

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Erikaspirit16 said:
The Eucharistic minister also cried after I got done with her.
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Are you bragging about bringing a woman to tears? Even if correcting this woman had been your place, it should not have been done in a manner which would bring somebody to tears.
 
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Erikaspirit16:
The Eucharistic minister also cried after I got done with her.
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Are you bragging about bringing a woman to tears? Even if correcting this woman had been your place, it should not have been done in a manner which would bring somebody to tears.
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I absolutely agree. While the EMHC was undoubtedly wrong to refuse the child, we must assume she had a reason that seemed good to her at the time. Erikaspirit, I can understand you being upset on the child’s behalf, but did you ask the EMHC why she did what she did? Then you could have gently queried her reasoning.

Always give people the benefit of the doubt.
 
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I absolutely agree. While the EMHC was undoubtedly wrong to refuse the child, we must assume she had a reason that seemed good to her at the time. Erikaspirit, I can understand you being upset on the child’s behalf, but did you ask the EMHC why she did what she did? Then you could have gently queried her reasoning.

Always give people the benefit of the doubt.
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Yeah, that’s certainly nothing to boast about.

I was serving a Sunday Mass when a couple with their two kids locked eyes with me. They were sometimes attendees of my Eastern Catholic church and the EMHC wouldn’t give them communion. Given the configuration of our church, they could not make their way to the priest. I went down into the nave and gave them communion.

The EMHC went apoplectic after Mass. I just ignored him, went to the priest and told him what was up. He thanked me. End of story.
 
Was it in this thread where someone mentioned the children saying the Our Father in the Sanctuary?

Well, I finally witnessed it yesterday and it made me slightly uncomfortable. On the other hand, there were many children and their parents at church. Even had a primary school choir!
 
Duesenberg said:
The deserve the dignity intrinsic to all humans. Respect however is earned – or lost.
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Well, the thing is that priests deserve to be treated with recognition of the dignity intrinsic to the priesthood.
Our pastors, who have been entrusted with the direct responsibility for our pastoral care, deserve all that much more respect.

It is like the respect due to the President of the United States. He may be acting in a way that is unbecoming to one who holds his office, but it would only compound his error to refuse to show the respect due to his office when in his presence. To do otherwise disgraces the President less than the citizen who does not seem to appreciate the gravity of the office that God has granted to the President of the United States.

If this is true of elected leaders, how much more it is true of those who have a share in the sacred duty handed down by the Apostles: Obey your leaders and defer to them, for they keep watch over you and will have to give an account, that they may fulfill their task with joy and not with sorrow, for that would be of no advantage to you. Heb. 13:17

St. Paul is saying very directly that we are to avoid being a sorrow to our pastors.

By the way: What was the point of this thread, again? Someone asked, but I missed the answer.
 
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I think you may be in my diocese and went to my parish at one point. If so, that situation is no longer in effect with the new pastor.
 
No, Tennessee. We had a glass ‘ciborium’ that was a gift from a parishoner along with a glass ‘chalice’ . Both of these items disappeared about 1 week after our prior pastor left. I remember whenever our Bishop would come to our parish, we’d have to go to an older, more traditional ciborium and chalice. There were many at my parish that were among the ‘Spirit of V2’ folk. I pray that this parish in Ohio has corrected this issue.
 
I’m not sure if it was an actual abuse or not, but we do have our problems when it comes in incensing.

One time the celebrating priest added a bunch of incense to the “incense vessel” (it looks sort of like a vintage chamber pot), lofted it overhead and popped Whirling Dervish moves as he circumnavigated the altar.

Sadly he went down halfway through the incensing – spraining his ankle in the process. The pastor had to replace him to finish the Mass.

Never saw that “incense vessel” again, thanks be to God.
 
I saw liturgical dancing, but this was like in 2008, so this was a long time ago, I wasn’t even technically Catholic at the time. But, the good thing is it hasn’t happened since then as far as I know, and the priest that allowed it, is no longer at that Parish. I’ve been back since then, because that is where I was going to Mass for a while, so that actually makes sense, but I haven’t seen it since then.
 
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