Last week Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera of the Congregation
for Divine Worship said he wants a bit more sobriety at the Sign
of Peace. He may have a point.
In Glasgow some people appear to being sponsored for collecting
handshakes. And recently a lady- who came in at the Offertory and left
at the Priest’s Communion, incidentally- clambered over about four
rows of seats to make sure peace was with me. A well-known Glasgow
priest is off the altar and handshaking his way down the aisle so
quickly that some day he’ll be right out of the front door and
in among the traffic.
But surely it’s a very small and unimportant point, really?
In South America and South East Asia I don’t think many people
will even get to hear Cardinal Antonio Llovera’s strictures.
Hundreds of thousands won’t even know what the Sign of Peace is
-or even maybe Mass and the Eucharist for that matter.

Surely extending ordination is far more important?