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laptopprancer · July 2010

KristenBtobe:
Yes, the Catholics hold hands during the Lord's Prayer. Some of them raise their arms during the last part. It's my least favorite part of mass if I'm on the aisle stuck next to someone I don't want to hold hands with.

I've never seen this at a Catholic mass and I've been to many.

Maybe it's a southern thing?

Vinny2008 · July 2010

Buuuuuut, I don't like touching strangers. Cooooooties. Especially little old Italian women who keep their tissue in their cleavage and hack throughout the whole service sounding as if they have smoked since they were 8.

noisy_penguin · July 2010

Lorne's extended family is religious, and sometimes when we go up to eat with them they say grace. But only sometimes. I haven't figured out the pattern (in like, 6 years of going there, so maybe there is none) and half the time I've got a mouthful of something when someone starts in.

Once, when Lorne's cousin was 7 or 8 and her dad asked her to say grace, she asked why no one ever had me or Lorne say it. I'm 99% sure she was just stirring the shiit, which I can appreciate, but it made for an awky moment, as no one likes to publicly acknowledge that we're heathens.

cmc714 · July 2010

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America....

I've never held hands in mass either.

KristenBtobe · July 2010

I've held hands at Catholic weddings in places including Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Raleigh, and Pittsburgh. So maybe it's regional?

HappyTummy613 · July 2010

I'm going to start bringing a pair of those Hulk Hands to church so people know to leave me be.

laptopprancer · July 2010

KristenBtobe:
I've held hands at Catholic weddings in places including Milwaukee, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Raleigh, and Pittsburgh. So maybe it's regional?

Are you sure they were Catholic? Did you take communion and get hit by lightening?

This is bizarre to me. I'm from Philly and was raised Catholic. Never seen this in my life. We shake hands for the sign of peace but other than that we don't like to touch each other.

salimoo · July 2010

I've been to many a Catholic mass and have never held hands. I hate the sign of the peace part and it's one of the (many) reasons I do not go to church. It makes me all awky and there is no need for it.

KristenBtobe · July 2010

I got really drunk at the wedding receptions, and sometimes before, so it was most certainly Catholic.

I went to a Catholic university with all these people, so maybe it was just a school that attracted the hand-holding sect of Catholics.

_Fenton · July 2010

The hand-holding is for the new agey weirdos. Proper old-school Mel Gibson Catholic churches don't fukc around with that nonsense.

This reminds me, when my MIL and FIL realize that we are not teaching our kids to say grace, they will lose their SHIIIIIIIIIIT! When we're all together my nieces saying prayers before we eat is like this epic theatrical event. I will basically ruin my ILs life by not carrying on this tradition.

ChristinS · July 2010

I'm catholic and I've seen people do both in St. Louis. This matter is now closed. Feel free to discuss something else.

laptopprancer · July 2010

I'm going to go discuss a beer in my mouth.

A good weekend, to all.

Nice ta meetcha.

cmc714 · July 2010

So in conclusion, they like to touch each other in the midwest and south, but not in the northeast.

_Fenton · July 2010

Groomz, I went and read your ML post. Did you not know that tonif deletes all of her posts? It's been like three years since that cvntblog was active, but she still does it anyway.

wendyld · July 2010

I was at a wedding shower last weekend and Connor was in the next room playing when everyone (super religious extended family and such) starts to say grace. From the next room I hear "I pee pee on the fwoor!" I bolted mid prayer, and every person in the room had to be between us (still praying). Turns out he said something about a toy tree he found on the floor. Awkward.

RFKD82909 · July 2010

First time I ever had dinner with my now ILs they said "God is Great" and I just stared in shock. My first experience with any prayer repeated that everyone knew. I asked DH about it and he looked at me like I was insane because apparently EVERYONE knows that prayer. Even holiday-iers

MrsKizdoodle · July 2010

My mom's family holds hands and sings a rousing rendition of Johnny Appleseed complete with 3 amens at the and hands up in the air on the third aaaaaaaaaaaa-men. It's funny watching the faces of the new people (usually boyfriends/girlfriends of my cousins). My grandpa started this tradition and when we all circled up and sang it at the open house following his funeral it was really moving.

DH was raised Catholic so I've been to a few masses and have always held hands during the Lords Prayer (in Minnesota and Iowa). The first mass I went to silly Lutheran me kept going at the end after the Catholics had stopped. "For thine is the kingdooo.....ohhhhhh." Oops! Embarrassed

Irishgrl417 · July 2010

The church I grew up in NJ didn't do the hand holding thing until I was in college maybe. I think a new priest brought it in. But I'd been to other churches in the area and some of them held hands, some didn't.

My grandfather always started dinner with "Bless us o Lord, and these thy gifts..." But I was delighted when a priest friend of the family came to dinner and introduced me to "rub a dub dub."

MrsKizdoodle · July 2010

Irishgrl417:
But I was delighted when a priest friend of the family came to dinner and introduced me to "rub a dub dub."

My dad thinks he is being hysterical with "rub a dub dub".

When someone asks, "Should we say grace?" my mom always answers, "Doren." I guess there was a little old lady named Grace Doren in her home town. She thinks it's the funniest thing ever. :-)

CaliopeSpidrman · July 2010

My dad thinks it's hilarious to throw out the "Good food, good meat, good God, let's eat!" every now and then. But we don't say grace. I don't think my ILs do either.

ftnups · July 2010

Yeah holding hands during the Our Father is a new-fangled church of what's happenin' thing. I don't really care for it myself. When I was growing up (the 70s) you hardly ever saw this, but I would say it's pretty commonplace now. I am sure the northeast churches are the holdouts though.

Our parish in Portland, though, doesn't even do the sign of peace and they have a communion rail. Crazy Dominicans.

salimoo · July 2010

My ex-ILs used to sing grace before every meal. In a round. I politely declined being assigned a voice part and was never asked to sing again.

pdxmouse · July 2010

shanollee:
We never said grace, so I was completely unfamiliar with the whole procedure. So when I was 3, and my cousin was saying grace, I started singing jingle bells. My mom found it hysterical, but my uncle was PISSED. I figured he was showing off something he knew, so I was gonna show off something I knew

Yeah, the first time I went to a Catholic mass I was 3 and when everyone lined up for communion I asked very loudly, "Do all those people have to go to the bathroom?" My mom busted up, but my (Catholic) stepdad was less amused. I was just going off my experience with lining up.

I think I've already shared about the Last Time I went to church and threw up on the lady in front of me just as the minister was saying "and we will do as God wills us to do".

MamaKin · July 2010

I think the hand-holding during the Our Father just depends on the parish. The two churches I've attended in my life have both had some hand-holders, some not on any given week. Kind of how some parishes kneel at after communion every week, some don't ever kneel. Some say the creed every week, some never say it. Some sing the consecration, some don't. Just like different families have their routines, pastors/parishes are the same way. In my experience, anyway.

BobLoblaw · July 2010

If anyone still cares:

We held hands at my parents' Catholic church in Western NY. The person on the end of the aisle either holds the hand of the person in front/back of them or opens their palm to the sky, presumably to hold hands with Jeebus.

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