Mormons at mass

[_cafe crema]

It comes from the phrase ite missa est which roughly means, "Go, it is finished" which are the last words said in a Latin Rite service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ite_missa_est

Kind of funny if you think about. Calling the service something like 'it's over!'. Maybe its because back when it was done in latin, everyone was listening for that key phrase so they could finally go home.

Don't Catholics have a reputation for bolting out the door at the end of the service?

Even funnier than you think because the people respond to the "go, it is ended" with "thanks be to God" :)

As far as bolting after Mass, except for 9 o'clock Mass pretty much everyone does bolt. My kids call 9 o'clock Mass doughnut Mass because you can have coffee and doughnuts afterward. The building and the parking lot can get quite crowed between 9 and 10:30 Masses, it's a big mess when people hang around after Mass. It works better if we all leave and get out of the way of the people coming to the next Mass. But it's fun to eat doughnuts in front of the later attendees since they can't. :)

[_kairos]

Quarkie- if you ar serious about all things RC vis a vis Mass, as a Evangelical Charismatic RC but with a TBM my wife and TBM adult children and with a 30 + year sojourn with the Mormons( i have attended/supported my family at LDS 3 hour blocks plus their callings for 30 years) let me know and we can talk/PM.
the RC chruch at the local level is a very big tent from highly conservative to moderately progressive to highly liberal)- i have gone through all 3 of those phases in my life.

kairos