Fair enough for you, but that’s not my experience at all.
I would just say it draws attention away from what we are at mass to do (I.e. participate in the divine mysteries) and instead focuses on an individual person. It’s the same idea as the Priest calling a choir member up to the front for applause, something I have also seen happen. Mass is not the place to celebrate personal accomplishments or milestones. Save it for the fellowship hall afterwards.
shrug You get used to it. They’ve had loads of time making it more complex.
We do it during announcements, after Communion.
My older brother married a Siberian woman and they went Russian Rite, him because even the Latin Massers were too progressive and her to have people who speak her language.
True enough.
Maybe I was brought up real sheltered, but my first definition of “adultery” was sexual relations between partners who are not married to one another. Even if neither one of the participants in the sexual relations had ever been married (which, istm, does violence to the meaning of the term that spawned the name of the “sin”).
Yes it has, starting with Jesus’ “stretching” of the definition.
Or - the Catholic view is normative while the rest of the world’s view descends into chaos and confusion - depending on one’s perspective of course.
No offense intended, friend, but you were born to be Catholic! Like how my brother was born to be Eastern Rite and my wife, originally Methodist, was a born Lutheran (“Full Bible but not crazy about it”). You found a home and you embraced it fully and want to spread the Word. I, an Evangelical Lutheran because they are insanely tolerant/hopeful, admire people who can do that, unlike my father who said of enthusiastic converts, “There’s nothing worse than a reformed whore.” 
No, really, God (or whoever) bless you, and I’m cool with your beliefs as long as you don’t call for the return of Torquemada.
None taken, and I appreciate your perspective.
May God bless you as well.
I understand that lots of parishes have adopted the practice of incorporating the services of a “cantor” in the Mass. The priest should really leave the "Happy Birthday"s to him.
And they should try using the Happy Birthday songs that the restaurants use, just in case the Supreme Court reverses the outcome of the Hill sisters’ version. Not that Warner Chappell Music Inc, is likely to initiate a lawsuit against the RCC, but, it would be a little unseemly to defy that copyright after rolling over and submitting to F.E.L. over the mimeographed song sheets.
He means “living in sin”.
I think he meant judgementalism and guilt.
And maybe it’s none of his business if they are banging each other silly.