I remember reading a couple of years ago about a parish priest in Spain who installed a device that jammed cellphone signals (not very far, only the chapel). However, I think it's illegal in most places, although getting more and more tempting...
In Colonial New England, the Puritans had an interesting means to deal with disturbances during Sunday worship; the ushers would patrol the congregation with a long staff, one end capped with a feather, the other with a large,hollow brass ball. The feather would be used to prod sleepy parishoners to wakefullness, while the brass ball would be used to rap the skull of misbehaving children.
There are times during Mass when I wish that the Church had adopted the same idea.
the fact that the offender said into his cellphone as he knelt at the rail, "wait a sec, i'm taking communion" explains a lot.
I remember reading a couple of years ago about a parish priest in Spain who installed a device that jammed cellphone signals (not very far, only the chapel). However, I think it's illegal in most places, although getting more and more tempting...
That's disgusting.
Is it any consolation that the event described took place in an Episcopal Church?
RC,
Ah. That does make a difference. Whether conservative or liberal, there was no Real Presence there to mock.
In Colonial New England, the Puritans had an interesting means to deal with disturbances during Sunday worship; the ushers would patrol the congregation with a long staff, one end capped with a feather, the other with a large,hollow brass ball. The feather would be used to prod sleepy parishoners to wakefullness, while the brass ball would be used to rap the skull of misbehaving children.
There are times during Mass when I wish that the Church had adopted the same idea.
What? Kneeling to take Communion? Quick, dial a liturgist!
My husband is a Lutheran pastor and his rule is that cell phones are banned completely inside the sanctuary. NO EXCEPTIONS.