{"id":20079,"date":"2013-06-10T04:29:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=20079"},"modified":"2013-06-11T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:53:50","slug":"sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/10\/sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sobriety and the Sign of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liturgy.blogs.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Jan Larson<\/a>,\u00a0a priest of the Archdiocese\u00a0of Seattle, has posted a thoughtful essay about the Sign of Peace on his blog, <em>Liturgy Reflections.<\/em> Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The greeting of peace is still a part of our liturgical prayer, really a kind of blessing that we exchange with those nearby, and this attitude of prayer and blessing ought not to take second place to other praiseworthy impulses. Thus care must be taken that the sign of peace does not become a sort of \u201ctime out\u201d from the liturgy so that people can chat and socialize. That the sign of peace reflects a certain composure and restraint also applies to everyone else in the liturgical assembly. The church\u2019s norms describe the sign of peace as the rite \u201cby which the Church asks for peace and unity for herself and for the whole human family, and the faithful express to each other their ecclesial communion and mutual charity before communicating in the Sacrament&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/liturgy.blogs.com\/liturgy_reflections\/2013\/06\/reviewing-the-sign-of-peace.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[C]are must be taken that the sign of peace does not become a sort of \u201ctime out\u201d from the liturgy so that people can chat and socialize.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[2026,2413,2412],"class_list":["post-20079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass","category-presiding","tag-ars-celebrandi","tag-fr-jan-larson","tag-sign-of-peace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sobriety and the Sign of Peace - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/10\/sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sobriety and the Sign of Peace - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;[C]are must be taken that the sign of peace does not become a sort of \u201ctime out\u201d from the liturgy so that people can chat and socialize.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/10\/sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-10T10:29:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-06-11T16:53:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"90\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/10\\\/sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/10\\\/sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7fbf63ff85d447cf06b0588add3e41d2\"},\"headline\":\"Sobriety and the Sign of Peace\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-06-10T10:29:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-06-11T16:53:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2013\\\/06\\\/10\\\/sobriety-and-the-sign-of-peace\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"commentCount\":86,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Ars Celebrandi\",\"Fr. 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