Christians: What's the difference in a Catholic church service and a Lutheran church service?

It is a Catholic Mass...... not a service. You can go to any daily Mass, sit and observe. Take "Pilgrim" with you.

He seems to be ignorant of the Catholic faith.

FYI... Catholic churches have services EVERYDAY, not just on Sundays. Though, typically, the weekday services are in the morning around 8AM, so mostly attended by retired persons. You COULD go to a weekday service if you aren't at school or work at that time.

Check out http://www.masstimes.org/ for schedules. Secondly.. you can get a good overview of a Catholic mass HERE: http://www.catholicmass.org/english.html just click on commentary and listen to the quick sample audio clips. No need to buy the DVD.

_____________________________ As a Catholic who is married to a Baptist (self identifies as merely "Christian") I happen to have attended BOTH.. many times. 1) Catholic church services are called "Mass" 2) The Altar is the center piece of the church, NOT a modern band with microphones. As in most Protestant churches 3) The majority of the church service is liturgical NOT music worship as in most Protestant church services 4) The Priest's sermon (homily) is only about 7 minutes long, not 20-30 minutes as in most Protestant church services 5) There are 3 distinct readings from the bible, not 1 as in most Protestant church services 6) The bible is also sang from and the congregation responds during the Responsitory Psalms (sung from the book of Psalms, logically enough) 7) The congregation stands to hear the Gospel of our Lord, Kneels to show God reverence, and sits to listen to God's word or sermon.

Protestant services generally sit the entire time except to greet people or be dismissed to bible study 8) Catholics tend to keep their children there throughout the entire service and don't dismiss them to go play or to bible study, as in most Protestant church services. 9) The Eucharist aka 'communion' is dispensed every Sunday not just once a month or on special occassions, as in most Protestant church services. 10) Volunteers read for the first 2 readings from the bible, not just the Pastor or guest preacher, as in most Protestant church services 12) Music is more subdued and interwoven into the entire Mass instead of set worship times where music is song before or after the sermon, as in most Protestant church services 13) Mass often times intersperses Latin into the singing and responses such as the Kyrie el aison (God have mercy) and in SOME cases.. the entire Mass is in Latin (Called "high Mass" or "Extraordinary Rite") 14) Catholic church services all the same ALL across the globe.

Same readings, same basic structure. Music may be different and the homily (sermon) is obviously different, but a Catholic can walk into a Church anywhere in the world on Sunday and feel at home. (even if they don't speak the language, they still know what is going on) 15) There is a 3 year liturgical cycle within the Church.

If a Catholic goes to Mass each day, they will have heard almost the entire Bible in those 3 years. Bible readings are specifically chosen to hit all the major parts and books in that 3 year cycle. 16) Catholics can use the Missal (not missile) to follow along with all the responses and readings.

You can buy a Catholic Missal that lists all the responses and readings out to approximately 2023 http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Missal-Editi... _____________________ LASTLY,-- if you are in a world religions class, then get the terminology down right. Catholics ARE Christians. There are Catholic Christians (represent about 60% of Christianity) and non-Catholic Christians (which all the other denominations make up the other 40%) For convenience sake, Catholics lump all the various denominations together using a term "Protestant" rather then having to list the tens of thousands of denominations all separately.

Sometimes this insults individual Christians as they don't consider themselves "protestant" which is a Catholic-centric term. Catholics, on the other hand, find it very insulting that the term "Christian" has been hijacked to exclude Catholics. Also of note...the term "Roman Catholic" is a 16th century slur, meant to insult Catholics.

Kinda like a racial slur. Many Catholics have accepted the label, as they can not stop it. But OFFICIALLY the faith is simply called "Catholic" not "Roman Catholic" unless you mean "The Catholic faith centered in Rome" GOD BLESS and hope this helps.

P.S. I hope this doesn't seem condescending to non-Catholic Christians. My main point is that non-Catholic Christian church services can vary a great deal so it is hard to make comparisons unless you know WHICH local church you are comparing it to, or at least the denomination of that particular church.

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