Altar Rail Puts Communicants on Right Track

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Roseeurekacross said:
My Priests always open the gate, step down into the front of the aisle, and deliver the Homily. They deliver quite an animated Homily this way.

i will take some pics. These Churches have not changed.
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It is the same in Europe. The gate is open and the ministers of Holy Communion come into the nave to administer Eucharist to the communicants…who are standing.

The homily is delivered from any of the various locations foreseen…according to the preference of the homilist.
 
Okay, we all know your opinion, as you have stated it several times.

You obviously have never take a course in logic.
 
Most of the Canadians I have come in contact with are from British Columbia, aboot 357 miles north of me. At least, that is the way they say it… “ou” comes out as a long “u” up there. Here it is closer to “ow”.
 
otjm said:
Okay, we all know your opinion, as you have stated it several times.

You obviously have never take a course in logic.
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I most certainly have. Hence why I know what the word ‘unless’ means. It signifies a conditional clause that either confirms or negates the statement.

For example " The Bank will not lend me money UNLESS I have a down payment ,"

Statement A becomes untrue of the condition of the dependant clause is true. If the man has the downpayment, The Bank WILL lend him money "

Hence we can also look that GIRM 160.

“The Norm is Standing” , UNLESS “the person wishes to kneel l”

If the person wishes to kneel, the norm of standing is no longer true in that instance.

Basic English, Basic logic.

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If the trade off for altar rails is losing color and returning to black and white, I am not interested.
 
Nice try, but not even close.

The norm is standing.

And no, that is not basic logic.
 
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Nice try, but not even close.

The norm is standing.
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I’ll never understand why people would want to kneel if everyone else is standing.

I can appreciate that people might want to be an individual, but there is a time and a place for that and this isn’t it.
 
I know this is uncharitable to think, but I always feel as if they are trying to prove how holy they are. I then ask forgiveness for being so judgemental. :confused:
 
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My own parish was wreckovated in 1971 (with plenty of insistence from the pastor at the time that “Vatican II required” everything that was done). Fortunately, it was restored in 1997, complete with an altar rail…and I’d say no one has ever complained about fixing the unfortunate 1970s era ugliness that lasted a quarter century.
 
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It’s very convenient that people in the present are so much less hypocritical than those of the past.
 
Al right then how is this…In my experience the people I knew in the fifties were more hypocritical than those I know now. Yes I am that old.
 
And that may be the case. But I know there’s plenty of hypocrites in my generation as well. It’s a human constant.
 
Are they really more hypocritical? I find plenty of people still hide their true thoughts and intentions and live differently from their supposed ideology, especially in the political environment we have.

What we undoubtably have less hypocrisy in is sexual immorality. But we’ve only traded hypocrisy for scandal. In the days of hypocrisy the only soul in danger was the hypocrite’s. The scandalous and former hypocrital person’s soul is still in danger. But now he has endangered other souls with his scandal.
 
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