crazyheart
Expectations For Church -- then and now.
Posted on: 12/30/2013 18:01
We have different expectations for church than our grandmothers and mothers had. Then we wore our best clothes, women never wore pants, and men sometimes wore suits. Now, it is come as you are. Are there other things you remember?
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carolla
Posted on: 12/30/2013 18:21
Women & girls wearing hats to church on Sunday - very important! Usually white goves too.
Perfect attendance pins for Sunday School.
Ministers & their families living next door to the church in the manse.
Beloved
Posted on: 12/30/2013 18:23
No talking in church while you were waiting for the service, maybe a tiny bit of whispering, but not visiting.
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/30/2013 18:28
No chewing gum. My girlfriend sat at the front with all of us and all of a sudden a folded note came up pew by pew. row by row. It was from her dad - he said get rid of the gum in this paper and put it in the offering plate. He was a counter. hhaha
redbaron338
Posted on: 12/30/2013 20:10
...and no matter what might happen, laughing was verboten... worship was a serious business, doncha know
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/30/2013 20:34
Isn't it still, Red? hahahaha
Happy Retiree
Posted on: 12/30/2013 21:43
No clapping for the choir or the organist.
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/30/2013 22:45
Sing Amen at end of hymn
GO_3838
Posted on: 12/30/2013 22:45
If you weren't confirmed, and you dared to reach for a bread cube or a juice glass when the communion was passed in the pews, the elder passing the plate slapped your hand.
(Happened to me when I was 12 years old. It was the first time I'd ever gone to a church service, and i didn't realize the elements were for confirmed members only.)
crazyheart
Posted on: 12/30/2013 22:46
hahahahaha
Mendalla
Posted on: 12/31/2013 10:32
Even thinking of the seventies and eighties when I was going to church regularly, it was a more formal, serious affair, at least in the United Church. Suits for the men/boys and "Sunday Best" dresses or skirts for the women/girls. Minister in robes and stole. Amen after the hymns. Minimal laughter and humour, though that was getting better by the eighties, esp. with the children in church for the children's story. No applause save maybe after the postlude.
Now, while I find the UCCan services still lean a bit more that way than UU services do, it is much looser. More laughter and applause, business casual or even informal attire for younger folks (older ones may still wear formal or business attire), fewer "amens" and other liturgical bits. UCCan ministers still seem to mostly wear clerical attire but UU ministers seem to lean to just a suit, sometimes with a stole.
Communion in the UCCan seems to be mostly by intinction from a common cup. Back in the day, it was little cups and cubes of bread.
Mendalla