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De signo pacis

Num admitti possit usus hic illic vigens quo Missam participantes, loco sibi invicem pacem significandi ad invitationem diaconi, manum amplectuntur dum canitur oratio dominica?

R. Manus amplecti per longum tempus per se est potius signum communionis quam pacis. Ceteroquin est gestus liturgicus spontanee sed privato inceptu inductus: non invenitur in rubricis. Nec intelligitur qua ratione supprimatur gestus pacis ad invitationem « offerte vobis pacem » qui tantam habet significationem, gratiam et indolem christianum, ut inducatur aliud signum minoris significationis in aliud momentum Missae. Qua de re si agitur de substitutione haec est simpliciter improbanda.

On the Sign of Peace

Whether the practice can be admitted which occurs here and there in which those participating at Mass, instead of expressing peace to each other at the invitation of the deacon, hold hands while the Lord’s Prayer is sung?

R. Holding hands has for a long time been on its own a sign of communion rather than of peace. Moreover, it is a liturgical gesture introduced spontaneously, though on private initiative: It is not found in the rubrics. Nor can it be understood by what reason the gesture of peace at the invitation « let us offer each other the sign of peace » should be suppressed, which has such great significance, grace and Christian character, in order that another sign of lesser significance may be introduced at another time during the Mass. For this reason, if it is a matter of substitution, this must simply be rejected.

Notitiae 11 (1975): 226hand holding, our father, sign of peacePDF of Notitiae 11 (1975): 226