Wrap The Clap! Time To End Clapping At Mass

[Benedictus]

I don't want to clap at the foot of the Cross...

 

 

At my weekday Masses I have to be at least six chairs away from the nearest parishioner for them not to offer out their outstretched hand for me to grasp in fraternal love.  If I close my eyes and bow my head I can cut that number down to five or perhaps four.  Any closer and the amount of graspy hands of love reaches a critical mass.  :|  I'm still trying to not give into the status quo at that point.  Maybe I should keep my eyes closed.

 

The distance, eyes closed and head down tactic seems to be working. I'd carry on that for as long as you can ;)

[Benedictus]

Ash Wednesday- This would be my face




and

[Skinzo]

St. John XXIII on clapping in Church: 

"The fourth Sunday of Lent, John XXIII was once again among the crowd, at Ostia. (about 15 miles to the south-west of Rome.) Thousands of people were waiting for him along the street, in the piazza, in the church. They wanted to see him, to applaud him. They did not know that afterwards, he would rebuke them, in a good-natured way, in his simple , spontaneous, familiar way of speaking.

“I am very glad to have come here. But if I must express a wish, it is that in church you not shout out, that you not clap your hands, and that you not greet even the Pope, because â€˜templum Dei, templum Dei.’ (‘The temple of God is the temple of God.’)

Now, if you are pleased to be in this beautiful church, you must know that the Pope is also pleased to see his children. But as soon as he sees his good children, he certainly does not clap his hands in their faces. And the one who stands before you is the Successor of St. Peter.”

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/07/st-john-xxiii-doesnt-like-it-when-you-clap-in-church-so-stop-it-video/

 

[superblue]

Ya know what, if someone made a petition to present to the USCCB that requested that clapping before and after mass be forbidden and after the Choir plays their last song, I would gladly sign it and deliver it.

 

It is a big wtf moment every time to me when it happens, I mean I can appreciate wanting to acknowledge someone for an achievement or thanking the choir for their service, but why do we all have to chime in with clapping ? why is it not enough for the priest or deacon to say thank you an be done, and if people wana give someone a parade afterwards, out side, and sing someone happy birthday in the parish hall, knock yourself out,

 

but can we also add, no more booze parties in the parish hall for fund raising.

 

if people really want to use booze and loud entertainment for a fundraising event, why not do it some where else off church grounds instead of making the priest wonder if his insurance company is going to get a phone call one day because of an accident that took place.

[Ancilla Domini]

There are also worse things than mullets.

 

Are you sure about that? Let's not be too hasty...

[PhuturePriest]

I can't seriously be the only one who thinks of venereal diseases every time I see the title of this thread.

 

 

Are you sure about that? Let's not be too hasty...

 

I'd rather rock a mullet than a mohawk.

[brandelynmarie]

I had a pet mullet once. It won first place ribbons at shows.

[Credo in Deum]

Business in the front, party in the back. One stop shop for all of your needs. Throw in some parachute elastic pants, a turtle neck, and some flip up sunglasses and you're set to go out on the town and TCB all night.

[chrysostom]

Business in the front, party in the back. One stop shop for all of your needs. Throw in some parachute elastic pantaloons, a turtle neck, and some flip up sunglasses and you're set to go out on the town and TCB all night.

 

I think I need to go wash my mind out with soap now.

[maximillion]

Are you guys all nuts?

 

Clapping?

 

Holding hands at the Our Father?

 

 

PLEASE bear some consideration for my very British Reserved Sensitivities.

 

Such goings on! :nono:

[Catherine Therese]

There are also worse things than mullets. Doesn't make them right.

 

Darn right.

They're called "Frullets" and they're terrifying. 

[Credo in Deum]

Same with skullets. 

 

 

[Benedictus]

How about clapping used for worship, rather than just an a clap to say thanks? I don't like this either myself. It sounds like a sports stadium or similar to me. It also hurt my eyes to see this go on when the Cardinal was saying the eucharistic prayers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8BRGNUpdc

[fides' Jack]

Wrap The Clap! Time To End Clapping At Mass
And Flamenco dancing, of course.
by Pat Archbold 

 

You know how Sharia law calls for the hands of theives to be chopped off? Yeah, well my kids know that a similar penalty will be lovingly applied by their father if I ever catch them clapping at Mass. I have seen clapping too many times to count. Most of you probably have as well. Years ago I had a priest who, post communion, would ask for a round of applause for everybody from the ushers, to the altar persons, to the singers, to the groundskeepers.

Applause in Church is the thing that makes my eyes twitch and my brow furrow, forcing me to harshly pinch the skin on my leg so as to maintain control and not shout as loud as I can, "FOR HEAVEN"S SAKE!! STOP!!"

For me, applause at mass it the most visible sign of the anthropocentric corruption of our worship.

Cardinal Ratzinger famously said in Spirit of the Liturgy, (I think I will make shirts with this emblazoned on the back to wear to Mass)

 

"Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation..

 

Ah. Religious titillation. That seems outlandish!! Well, except for this video making the rounds. This is a video that the Daily News report upon:

 

"Jose Planas Moreno, or Father Pepe, as he is known, brings flocks of congregants to the Nuestra Senora del Carmen church in Campanilla by clicking his heels and strutting his stuff. The 66-year-old and female worshippers twirl down the aisles doing the sevillanas, a traditional dance very similar to flamenco."

 

http://youtu.be/jXsCgWuGre0

 

Religious titillation indeed. The Daily News lede on this article says it all. "It’s a lot more fun than going to Confession."

What does clapping have to do with a Flamenco dancing priest? Read Cardinal Ratzinger above again.

If Cardinal Ratzinger doesn't cut it for you, how about the Saint who called Vatican II? From New Liturgical Movement.
 

The fourth Sunday of Lent, John XXIII was once again among the crowd, at Ostia. (about 15 miles to the south-west of Rome.) Thousands of people were waiting for him along the street, in the piazza, in the church. They wanted to see him, to applaud him. They did not know that afterwards, he would rebuke them, in a good-natured way, in his simple , spontaneous, familiar way of speaking.

“I am very glad to have come here. But if I must express a wish, it is that in church you not shout out, that you not clap your hands, and that you not greet even the Pope, because ‘templum Dei, templum Dei.’ (‘The temple of God is the temple of God.’)

 

It is time to wrap the clap as a starting point to remove the anthropocentric mentality that has destroyed worship these past 45 years.

Original article found here

 

Thanks Dust - you literally made me cry.  :(