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Posted by seasick (# 48) on :

Snark to your hearts' content!

Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :

But only about liturgy and worship practices, surely?

Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :

Have you seen the way that Father's taken to holding his hands at the dismissal? Hands open, Father? I don't think so!

Thurible

Posted by Bishops Finger (# 5430) on :

Our Sunday Mass is celebrated versum populo (sp?). So why in the name of all the blessed saints and martyrs does Father insist on having an 18-inch-high crucifix stuck on the altar? It looks clumsy, the corpus faces us rather than him, and it obscures his actions during the Eucharistic ****er.

I'll tell you why - it's simply because the (soon-to-be-former) **** has one on his altar...... [Mad]

We keep trying to lose/hide/drop/break the thing, but Father keeps putting it back..........

Ian J.

Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ******s Finger:
it obscures his actions during the Eucharistic ****er.

And there you have the Ritual Reason Why. Stop watching Father and start watching Jesus!

Thurible

Posted by AberVicar (# 16451) on :

With a bloody big c r o s s there you can't SEE Jesus!

Posted by Spiffy (# 5267) on :

Wrong vestment colors on Sunday last! If the Altar Guild wasn't all volunteer, I'd fire the lot!

Posted by Olaf (# 11804) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
Wrong vestment colors on Sunday last! If the Altar Guild wasn't all volunteer, I'd fire the lot!

That is a perpetual problem on these one-time Sundays. The color problem I've pretty much taken care of at my place. The proper prefaces are another story, although I'll admit strategically paperclipping pages together in the altar book does seem to help a bit.

Posted by Vulpior (# 12744) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Thurible:
Have you seen the way that Father's taken to holding his hands at the dismissal? Hands ***n, Father? I don't think so!

Thurible

Father is doing the dismissal? That's a diaconal job, surely? We put lay people in albs and appareled amices just so they can do that.

What other things are going on in your church that make the mass invalid? I shudder to think.

*snark*

Edited to circumvent censorship

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Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Vulpior:
albs and appareled amices

And you call yourselves Catholics? Ha!

Thurible

[ 12. February 2013, 10:22: Message buggered about with by: Thurible ]

Posted by Belle Ringer (# 13379) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Olaf:

quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
Wrong vestment colors on Sunday last! If the Altar Guild wasn't all volunteer, I'd fire the lot!
That is a perpetual problem on these one-time Sundays.

Use plaid. Color problem solved, no changes needed.

Posted by Adrian1 (# 3994) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Thurible:

quote:
Originally posted by ******s Finger:
it obscures his actions during the Eucharistic ****er.
And there you have the Ritual Reason Why. Stop watching Father and start watching Jesus!

Thurible

Perhaps Father should revert to celebrating Ad Orientem. It's much less distracting for the congregation.

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