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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't go to church much so I guess I am part of the problem (although my DH goes regularly) but I like the crowds on Easter. I find the normal very lightly attended services kind of depressing and prefer to be in a church filled with people.  The singing is more joyful, people are happy to be there, lots of people have extended family visiting.  I like the sounds of children on Easter - it's part of the scene for me (even though my children are teens/college age).  Yes we crowded 5 people into a pew for 4 but really it was for an hour so we survived.  
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Well, I am the OP and this was not my experience.  NO ONE was singing.  We were one of about two couples in our entire section who sang anything.  People didn't hold hands during the Lord's Prayer.  They didn't say the creed.  And they certainly didn't sing.  I'm glad this was your experience, and if it had been mine I might have felt better about being unable to move, hear much of the mass, or breath in the stifling heat.  It was hard for me; my preschooler lost it in the end because the crowds/heat/noise just got to be too much.  And we were crowding more than one extra person in a pew.  This is what I'm not sure many here are understanding.  I am not exaggerating when I say that we literally had hundreds of people past the fire code limit packed in.  Sitting in aisles, on stairs, packed shoulder to shoulder in every available standing room only space.  Sitting on the altar, on the sides of the altar, etc etc etc.  If they had all been joyously singing and happy, that would've been one thing.  But many of them just sat there looking bored.  [/quote]

I've been at packed holiday Masses like this too.  Was this Holy  Trinity, by any chance?  I know exactly what you mean. And sometimes, you're so packed, hemmed in at the back of the church, cannot see anything, cannot move, etc., it's just hard to get much out of it.  :([/quote]

Yes.  And I love HT, but I'm ready to bail on it for Easter.  [/quote]

I thought it sounded like HT.  Yes, I think you'd be better served by doing holiday Masses (such as Christmas and Easter) at other, "lesser-known" parishes.  I think you may get more out of the experience.  [/quote]

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