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ASK FATHER: Is it OK to clap at the end of the recessional hymn at Sunday Mass?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: At our Sunday Masses there is instantaneous applause at the end of the recessional hymn. Is this OK? I have sent many emails to the parish priest and he agreed that this is not correct but … Read More

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St. John XXIII doesn’t like it when you clap in church. So STOP it! (VIDEO)

Joseph Card. Ratzinger – now Benedict XVI – wrote in his Spirit of the Liturgy: “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 … Read More

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QUAERITUR: Applause during Mass

From a reader: One thing I have seen at several different parishes is the priest, during mass, after a song by the choir during mass either leading applause or in two instance saying something along the lines of ” How … Read More

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QUAERITUR: applause in church for music

From a reader: I have complained on your blog and to this forum in the past about their practice of vigorously applauding the choir after the communion “meditation”/song. Sometimes this song is even secular opera piece. After the applause, the … Read More

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A comment on applause in church

I found this great image over at True Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter.  

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Ratzinger on applause in church

From the blog Sober Inebriation comes this timely note: An important liturgical message from Cardinal Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict XVI "Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the … Read More

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