Do you like incense during the Sacred Liturgy?

Liturgy/Sacraments
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For the record, I do.

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I love it, but the altar servers never keep the thurible moving enough to sustain the coals so the incense will die out before mass is even half over!

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Depends on the quality of the incense and amount. I LOVE billowing clouds of good incense and dread the choking, eye-burning, acrid cheap stuff. The poor People of God have long endured the cut-rate version—it’s time we spend money on our worship instead of cutting corners.

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Yes, as long as I am not too near the smoke, it aggravates my allergies.

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I adore incense. It’s been used for thousands of years to heighten our sense of God. I burn Frankincense at home just to smell like church… We should be worshipping with all 5 senses :slight_smile:

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Not any more. 60 years ago when I was an altar server it didn’t bother me, but now it makes me cough.

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Yes. I think it’s also the reason for choir lofts.

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Environmentally, inscense is particulate, and limiting contact is practiced, I believe.

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A priest said he didn’t like doing funerals because the incense bothered him (he is a cheerful priest; he was just mentioning it). I told him that at my funeral, people might hear coughing coming from the casket, and that’s why it’s called a coffin (coughin’).:grinning_face:

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Exodus 30:1 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
30:2 It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height. Horns shall go out of the same.
30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold, as well the grate thereof, as the walls round about, and the horns. And thou shalt make to it a crown of gold round about,
30:4 And two golden rings under the crown on either side, that the bars may be put into them, and the altar be carried.
30:5 And thou shalt make the bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
30:6 And thou shalt set the altar over against the veil, that hangeth before the ark of the testimony before the propitiatory wherewith the testimony is covered, where I will speak to thee.
30:7 And Aaron shall burn sweet smelling incense upon it in the morning. When he shall dress the lamps, he shall burn it:
30:8 And when he shall place them in the evening, he shall burn an everlasting incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
30:9 You shall not offer upon it incense of another composition, nor oblation, and victim, neither shall you offer libations.