The Catholic Church offers and guards the inestimable treasure of the Holy Eucharist to the faithful. But we're experiencing difficulty in the form of very few actually believing in it, because our bishops have failed to teach it -- and more importantly, have failed to
I am so late to the dance on reading this, but I have said this over and over and over!! Stop with the announcements after Communion!! The bulletin is shoved at you when you leave and it is also online. Many are reading it during Mass...I don't need you to read the entire bulletin to me before I leave. And the ushers....don't even get me started. So pushy and some are just downright rude...."we HAVE to get all these people seated....and we don't care if they're sitting in your lap, or crawling over you, etc. We have one particular usher that likes to stand in the center aisle, like he's directing a plane up to the gate. While I'm trying to focus on the crucifix or the tabernacle, all I see is the usher, directing traffic in the center aisle, all the way up to a minute or two before Mass starts. No one else seems to think this is problematic or distracting. Thank you for confirming what I have been saying/thinking for years!!
I am so late to the dance on reading this, but I have said this over and over and over!! Stop with the announcements after Communion!! The bulletin is shoved at you when you leave and it is also online. Many are reading it during Mass...I don't need you to read the entire bulletin to me before I leave. And the ushers....don't even get me started. So pushy and some are just downright rude...."we HAVE to get all these people seated....and we don't care if they're sitting in your lap, or crawling over you, etc. We have one particular usher that likes to stand in the center aisle, like he's directing a plane up to the gate. While I'm trying to focus on the crucifix or the tabernacle, all I see is the usher, directing traffic in the center aisle, all the way up to a minute or two before Mass starts. No one else seems to think this is problematic or distracting. Thank you for confirming what I have been saying/thinking for years!!
Ha! Directing a plane—great visual!
"Oh, you thought you'd eagerly and humbly approach your Eucharistic Lord? First, ME!!"
Allow me to save the USCCB $25 million.
Mass, Ad Orientem.
Communion, kneeling at the rail, if possible, but definitely on the tongue.
Bam.