Just a couple of questions
1. When the sacrament hymn has finished and the priesthood lift the cloth the ordinance begins
Should we still let people into the chapel after that cloth has been lifted? Surely it distracts away from the sacredness of the event? Shouldn't we have ushers at the door preventing people entering?
2. Why should the deacons have to take the sacrament outside of the chapel area? For those who are late?, in our ward it's always the same people, isn't it better that they receive the ordinance in the chapel?
Sacrament - Points of Concern!
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Jamescm
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Re: Sacrament - Points of Concern!
Ideally? Yes, everyone should be in the chapel, mentally ready for the sacrament. It is an important enough ordinance, it seems, that it's worth ensuring everyone around who wishes to receive it, does, whether or not they're in the chapel proper.
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inho
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Re: Sacrament - Points of Concern!
The usher is there, there might be parents with crying babies (who took the children out show that others can better concentrate in the sacrament), and there might be other valid reasons to be outside the chapel.
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brianj
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Re: Sacrament - Points of Concern!
I don't think it's appropriate to keep people from entering the chapel at any time. A lot of people, particularly new converts and those who move from wards where people enter throughout the sacrament, don't know any better. So let them come in and at a later time pull them aside and quietly point out that we typically don't enter the chapel during the sacrament.
When I had babies in my family I would almost always do as the general authorities have counseled and taken my child out of the chapel so they don't disturb others. I have been irritated by parents who just let their kid scream through sacrament and fathers who sit in the chapel while their wives take the screamer out. On that second part I am partially irritated because a lot of mothers seem to think of their babies as an excuse for social hour in the foyer and partly because I didn't have any guys to chat with. As you would expect, a bunch of mothers in the foyer will exclude a father from conversation either passively by discussing subjects he won't be able to contribute to or actively by circling or going to the mother's room.
When I had babies in my family I would almost always do as the general authorities have counseled and taken my child out of the chapel so they don't disturb others. I have been irritated by parents who just let their kid scream through sacrament and fathers who sit in the chapel while their wives take the screamer out. On that second part I am partially irritated because a lot of mothers seem to think of their babies as an excuse for social hour in the foyer and partly because I didn't have any guys to chat with. As you would expect, a bunch of mothers in the foyer will exclude a father from conversation either passively by discussing subjects he won't be able to contribute to or actively by circling or going to the mother's room.
