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Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Kelsey J from Grand Rapids, MI:
It seems to me like a needless distraction. I can glad-hand Mrs Smith any time I want. On Sundays, I’m there to see Jesus. Is this uncharitable or disobedient?
Fr. R., :
The Sign of Peace is a distraction where it is presently situated in the Liturgy, especially if effervescent personalities wave and chat.
A patrician friend of mine, when I said Mass as he was dying, asked me to omit the Peace because it made his butler uncomfortable. I have used that as a sufficient excuse ever since, regardless of domestic arrangements.
God save the butler!
If done at all, it should be liturgical: greeting just the person next to you with a formal gesture. Influenza has a salutary effect because in flu season the Peace is often suspended.
Shame if it takes that.
The real fault with it is that it is…
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