Some good comments below on the post on holding hands. I don't find holding hands too bad, but everything that makes the Mass seem or sound like just a gathering of people should be stopped. My favorite priest, does everything perfect, except says “Good Morning” at the beginning of the Mass. Small detail? Not really, as Thomas Day pointed out in Why Catholic’s Can’t Sing, at that moment a huge invisible wall comes crashing down. It is no longer ritual but a simple gathering, with us as audience and Priest as MC. I am going to politely mention this to him to break him of this one bad habit he has. He has not been a priest for a year yet, so this should be easy but I want to find the right way to say this to him.