I should explain a bit about part of yesterday’s big post. The “grip and grin” comment was NOT a complaint about the “kiss of peace” – at least when such is done with decorum. (Sometimes the kiss of peace becomes a veritable circus, but that’s a separate issue.) It was directed against a more recent extraliturgical act that I’ve seen at a couple of otherwise decent parishes. Before the opening procession someone (it’s been a priest in at least one instance) asks all present to “welcome your neighbors to worship”. Seems to me that the liturgy best begins with the timeless invocation.