I am attending a spanish language catholic mass. do people say during the "sign of peace"?

They say "La paz sea contigo", it means "May peace be with you"

<<For Catholics: what do you think of holding hands during the "Our Father" at Mass?>> I don't really care for it, mostly because I feel like it takes away from praying the Our Father. Instead of concentrating on what I am saying, I am distracted for the first few lines as I am attempting to "hook up" with the people on my left and right. Fortunately, the parish I attend Mass at does not bother with having everyone hold hands during the Our Father. <<In Mass, I don't like anything that takes the focus away from Christ and puts it on ourselves.>> The Mass is, among other things, an exercise in audience participation. We are not mere spectators at Mass, we are active participants in it. Therefore, I do not frown on every element of Mass that promotes the active involvment of anyone in the congregation. <<That's the main reason why I don't like it when everybody holds hands at Mass during the "Our Father.">> I understand what they're trying to do, and it's a nice gesture. It promotes the unity and universality of the congregation as they pray the Our Father. But again, I feel it's too distracting to pray and be hooking up at the same time. Perhaps if the Mass paused, for even 15 seconds, allowing everyone to grasp hands before praying, I would accept it. <<Another (secondary) reason is that the whole thing just seems so ... Pentecostal or something! Nothing against Pentecostals (I'm sure they are good people), but we're not Pentecostal. We're Catholic.>> Not everything non-Catholic Christianity does is necessarily bad or even wrong. I suppose something like this is a matter of personal opinion. If there are any similarities between anything Catholicism does and anything non-Catholic Christianity does, it's them copying Catholicism, not the other way around, because Catholicism was here first.

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The Church by its very nature as the Mystical Body of Christ draws many assaults, from without by non-believers, and from within by liberals. The liberals inject both doctrinal nuances and liturgical innovations that serve to diminish, obfuscate, or outright deny the sacred. The holding of hands during the Lord's Prayer, which is the part of Mass the congregation prays to the Father directly, takes the focus off the object of the prayer, our Father, and repositions it on the people next to you. I can attest to this from my own college days because at Mass in the Newman Center, I did my best to choose a seat next to an attractive young female in advance preparation for the Our Father. Now in the wisdom of my middling years, I shop parishes for a Mass without it. That whole business of raising the held hands smacks of weird hippiedom as well. The reason the priest raises his outstretched hands is as a sweeping gesture to gather the prayers of the faithful, and that sympolism is lost when the dude in the pew next to you whisks your joined hand up with his during what has become the liturgical joined airing of pits. If the Church can't eradicate this rubbish all together, they should at least stash it back into Father Ponytail's Gym Mass with the flutes, gongs, sandals, inclusive language, burlap banners, liturgical clowns and dancers, the incense bong, and holy hashpipe.

I might be wrong...because I don't know what the 'sign of peace" means in Spanish, but when they make the cruss signs over their shoulders, forehead and heart (or lips) here's what they say:

"En el nombre del Padre, del Hijo, y del Espiritu Santo, Amen"

"In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen"

Hope it helps you.

You can say "La paz de Cristo sea contigo!" (the peace of Christ be with you!) or if it's too long to remember or your accent is bad, you can just say: "Paz de Cristo!" (By the way, the "z" is pronounced like an "s", as in "pas".)

Are you asking what people say, or what you should say?

"La paz del Señor," means, "May the peace of the Lord be with you."

Or they could be saying to you, "La paz sea contigo." "May the peace of the Lord be with you."

Hope that helped.

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La paz sea contigo or simply La paz (May peace with you, Peace)

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