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Standing at Mass

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  • #32
    Clareboy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    Onesimus wrote: »
    What are we soldiers? ''Now you sit down and don't be standing, you are well able to sit so sit down''?

    People should be allowed to stand where they please. Leave them alone and stop questioning their motives. You havnt a clue why people stand so leave it be.

    Yes, I have'nt a clue way people stand when there are empty seats. And by the way, I' ll leave it be when it suits me and not on your instructions.


  • #33
    Sierra 117
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    During the days when I was forced to go to mass I'd stand at the back so I could leave easily during communion. Not sure why other people do it but they have their reasons.


  • #34
    totus tuus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭totus tuus


    Judas was the first to leave Mass early, he started the ball rolling! ;)


  • #35
    Onesimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Onesimus


    Clareboy wrote: »
    Yes, I have'nt a clue way people stand when there are empty seats. And by the way, I' ll leave it be when it suits me and not on your instructions.

    People have every right to enter a Church and be free to stand where they like regardless if there is empty seats without having their motives for doing so questioned or being forced to sit in the empty pews that are there.


  • #36
    Clareboy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    As Christians, we believe that a church is the House of God. Sunday Mass is where we are invited as a community to join the priest around the altar and celebrate the Eucharist, which is a re-enactment of the Last Supper.

    How can one fully participate in the Mass if one is standing around the door?

    If you invited some people to your home for dinner and they would not join you at the dinner table, but instead preferred to stand around the door, you would feel very offended.

    That is why standing around the door of the church during Mass shows a total lack of respect for the Eucharist and is totally unacceptable.


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  • #37
    Black Suir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Black Suir


    In the past, when churches were a lot smaller than they are now, (talking around the time the penal laws were brought in), it would have been common for people to stand all during mass, which would have lasted a lot longer than they do now. There was a few reasons for this. One would be that large numbers would have attended the mass and the churches were small meaning that there was more room for everyone if they stood. Another would be that people would not have had the money to get seats made if the space in the church allowed seats to be put into it. In the days after the Penal Laws were brought in and when mass would be celebrated in a farmers house during the winter, so many people would show up that not everyone could be expected to be seated, and people would stand in the Parlour and possibly outside the door of the house as well. In doing this they were able to keep and eye out for anyone that was out to capture or harm the priest and get him to safety if they saw or heard anyone coming that they did not know.


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