In a few of the many comments accumulating below, we have questions along the line of "Er…I saw [fill in the blank] at the liturgy I attended. Is that…okay?"

So….here’s the place to ask (and we hope find an answer for) those questions. We’ll start with this one that I’ve pulled from the Good Friday thread:

three years ago, they started substituting the traditional veneration with having each person stick a nail into pre-drilled holes on the cross. Has anyone ever heard of this? Is it acceptable?

Wow. And that is veneration…how?