Where do you sit at church?

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prv said:
Hmmm, with 26% choosing the front, right option, there must be a reason for this…:rolleyes:
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There is with me, I like near the front so I can see and hear, and to the far right as it is close to the door to avoid the claustrophobic element.

If I’m in a church without side doors, last row in the center is preferred.
 
LeahInancsi said:
I’m curious why people sit where they sit in church and why.

I would enjoy hearing where you sit and why. 😉

I sit five to ten rows from the front and to the right of the center isle. I can only guess that I sit on the right because I’m right handed and, as a recent graduate of RCIA, we sat to the right of the main isle. I sit so close to the front because I am an EMHC almost every Sunday and don’t want to have to run the length of the church at communion time.
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I sit in the back because I dont think I am worthy to sit anywhere else in God’s sanctuary.
 
I leave the front for families with children (front row when mine were young), and the back for late comers. I sit about a quarter to a third of the way from the front and on the LHS because I am partly deaf in my left ear and I like to be able to hear the homily.
 
As close to the front as I can get on the epistle side, thats the right side of the altar looking at it from the nave. I’ve noticed that during most Pauline Masses the Priest will distribute on that side. The closer I am to the front the better chance that the Priest will not run out of hosts and stop distributing before I get there. During Traditional Masses I like to be close so I can see the movements of the Mass clearly.
 
Actually there is a simple rule of thumb. If you’d like to receive Holy Communion from the Priest sit where the veils are 😉
 
I usually sit in the sanctuary… well when I am serving.

Other than that I usually sit in the front right. The huge ambo makes it harder to see the Altar and such when you sit on the left.
 
I sit in the front two rows at the 8:45 am Mass because they are for the members of RCIA. Then, that evening for the 5 pm Mass, my husband and 2 children sit on the right hand side. We sit in the 2nd row (first row for the life teen band during the homily).
 
Center Right. That is where my mother sat and I got used to it.

The Tabernacle is on the right side of the Alter, so I moved to the front when we stopped going together. I moved back to the center due to people putting to much effort into showing how “holy” they were. Holding hand high over their head during the father, loudly mimicking the Priests prayers and hand movements etc. (I think the Pastor spoke to them, they had stopped) Years latter they are nowhere to be seen but I like my spot. I guess mother knows best.
 
estesbob said:
Why does your Church have Spiderman hovering over the Altar??
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Sorry, vince2paul, but that is one ugly church. That “crucifix” looks like a corpse that was burned at the stake. There is no defending “art” that bad. No matter what His wounded body may have looked like, Christ was nailed to a wooden cross, not suspended from wires. The GIRM specifically says in p.308 that “There is also to be a cross, with the figure of Christ crucified upon it, either on the altar or near it, where it is clearly visible to the assembled congregation.” This was specifically worded to avoid this kind of representation, or especially the “resurrexifixes” popular in the 70’s and 80’s.
 
Other. Choir loft. DH is the organist and I cantor from up there (which is the way I prefer it.) Thank God we have a choir loft.
 
I like to sit closer to the front. I have three children 5,6 and 8 years old. I want them to feel as if they are a part of the Mass rather than standing behind taller adults where they cannot see. I know that by sitting up front my children may distract other people but I feel that my children’s spirituallity in feeling that they are a part of the Mass is more important.
 
We usually sit up front on the right. We take my mother in law to church with us, and she needs a walker to get around. They take the communion over to her there.
 
dessert said:
It is very bad to be critizing the cross I hoope you will go to confession right away on this one.:eek: Every thing is scary about the Passion that is why it was called crucfying. I had to watch it 2 times before I could even open my eyes! Through most anyways and only then did I see the real meaning and it can’t be more so than when people put real nails etc. in them which I don’t agreee with. The children can understand more than you think and some day if the leave the catholic church pray they dion’t they will remember how big our GOD REALLY IS!!! Desert 😃 🙂 👍
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**The artist that produced that misconception of a crucifix should be the one going to confession. ****
Christ didn’t experience corruption and this version implies as much.
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In the choir section.

We have one of those round churches so there isn’t really any left or right. It’s more a case of rings and (8) sectors. The choir sits in the north sector in the last few rings.
 
Blessed Virgin’s side (left) up front. Why?

1.) The kids can’t goof off as much. Father’s watching. :rolleyes:
2.) The kids still goof off a little, but we’re off to the side.
3.) More thanksgiving time after Communion is distributed.
4.) No peeking in the collection basket.
 
Forgive me if this gets posted twice, but I keep getting internal errors from the CAF server.

5.) Our church has nooks for statues that are touch-and-feel, and the kids like to pet the sheep in the Fatima niche on the way out.
 
We arrive 15 minutes early so that we can sit in the very front pew on the center isle. I have always liked sitting in the very front since my kids were little because they pay attention better. Now that they are teens we still sit in the front because it’s just comfortable for us, and also because we are the first to receive the Holy Blood that way. And we’re always on the right side of the center isle because the tabernacle is off to the right and I feel better sitting a little closer 🙂
 
Melanie01 said:
At St Stephens Cathedral in Brisbane the Corpus Christi is suspended on half a cross which is just as unsettling.

The pictured church looks odd to me…
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My goodness! I was just thinking about the crucifix at St Stephen’s! That was my parish for awhile and I miss it. The little crucifix in the chapel next door, Melanie, was one of the models cast in the commissioning process for the one in the Cathedral. It’s more traditional. I wonder why they went for the one they did go for?
I really like the one in the cathedral - and this one (Vince’s) too.
The lovely statue of Mary down the back is by the same artist. (I might be telling you stuff you already know - it’s just a shock to see someone else talking about a church I know on this site!)

And I love the statue of Bl. Mary MacKillop (who will be Australia’s first saint, for any of you Americans (yes, and others) who don’t know her. She was a real hero.) that’s in the chapel too.
 
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