APPLAUSE AT MASS: IT ONLY HAPPENS IN THE ORDINARY FORM! WHY IS THAT?

An unknown archbisop, bless his heart, is trying to ban applause at Mass while his brother bishops, bless their little hearts, encourage it time and time again and say nothing negative about it!

Two of the greatest areas of applause in the Ordinary Form are bishop's ordinations and/or installations. Just watch the installation of the new archbishop of Philadelphia. He even recognizes during his homily, the other cardinals and archbishops to thunderous applause and of course he is applauded. Would that happen in an EF bishop's ordination or installation?

Think about priestly ordinations in the Ordinary Form. Like bishop's ordinations, these too are like coronations, from the triumphant music (with a cacophony of disjointed styles of music) and applause for the one(s) being ordained. Would this happen if an EF ordination?

Think about Nuptial Masses in the Ordinary Form, the hooting and hollering, not to mention the applause, especially at the recessional. Would that happen in an EF Nuptial Mass?

For the last 10 years or so I have tried hard to prevent this sort of thing from happening  at Nuptial Masses to no avail by not introducing (Mr and Mrs) at the end of Mass, simply saying God in Peace and asking the organist to start the recessional immediately not giving a chance for applause, but it doesn't work! It has never happened at an EF Nuptial I have celebrated.

Do they applaud in your parish?

I lift the following from the Deacon's bench:
 

ARCHBISHOP CRITICIZES APPLAUSE AT MASS: ‘WHO WOULD HAVE CLAPPED AT CALVARY?’

From Zenit: 

A church official has called for “abstinence” from inappropriate clapping at Mass, saying that the Eucharist is a “happy feast and a memorial of Calvary”, reported CBCP News.

Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan said that clapping at Mass, “if not nipped early, can rob us of the true meaning of Christian liturgy and worship.”

“Who would have clapped at Calvary? Would the Blessed Mother and John the Beloved have clapped?” Villegas said in a Lenten message issued Feb. 21.

“The breaking of the Bread is a commemoration of the violent death that the Lord went through. Who claps while others are in pain? It is pain with love; yes, but it still pain,” he said.

The archbishop particularly urged priests to refrain from using applause to keep their parishioners alert and awake during the homily.

Villegas emphasized that a “well prepared, brief, inspired and inspiring” homily “has a longer lifespan than intermittent clapping as you preach”.

If there is a need to give a post-communion message, he discouraged the naming of particular persons or groups who the parish wish to appreciate for their work or donations made to the Church.

The giving of appreciation, he added, must be done outside the Mass.

Villegas pointed out that when the congregation clap at an ordination Mass after calling the candidate, the applause is not for the ordinand but for the Lord who calls.

However, he lamented that “this is not the case with many of our applauses in the church”.

Read his full statement here.