Are there new rubrics about genuflecting?

[maryjk]

This leads me to believe that an unbelievable ninety percent of all Catholics, from the quite young to the very old, suffer from crippling leg injuries. Obviously, there is something in holy water which causes degenerative knee diseases.

For crying out loud, if we know what is causing my knee problems, we need to stop it.

I thought it was the injury when I was in my 30’s and multiple surgeries that cause me to have problems but if we know it is the holy water…

 

[cothrige]

If you read my response carefully, that is why I said we are genuflecting, because we are in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. That doesn’t just go for those coming down the center aisle, but anywhere in the church. Nothing annoys me more than people who disrespect the Blessed Sacrament in that way, or any way, and I don’t care who they are, Priest or lay.

You may want to read more carefully.

No, no, you are misreading me altogether. Your original statement surely recognized that the tabernacle is key, but you still attached the moment of genuflexion to sitting in the pew. This is technically incorrect, and it leads to the very errors which you say annoy you. People are convinced these days that we should genuflect just before we sit down, but this is not true. This is coincidence. We should genuflect anytime we cross in front of the tabernacle, whether we are at the back of the nave or the front. Historically this would naturally happen just before we sat down, but that was only because for centuries people knew how to build churches. Those days are gone, sadly, and today sitting and crossing in front of the tabernacle are often divorced in time and space. If passing in front of the tabernacle happens to occur just before entering the pew, then that is when you genuflect. But, if it happens at another moment then you should genuflect then. This nuance may seem trifling to you, but it is the difference between right and wrong.

 

[Simon62]

I have no idea whether there are any new rubrics about genuflecting, but to put my tuppence worth in, when I lived in England, which would have been 44 years of my life, from about the mid to late seventies there started to show the demise of genuflecting. 80’s and 90’s things getting worse and by say 2005, well i have to say 90 - 95% haven’t got a clue. OK me mums got bad knees, so she does a half genuflect hanging onto the pew. I agree with former replies where I doubt very much if this kind of percentage has knee problems. And sadly this is in churches I been to up and down the country, it’s not a localised thing.
Come on, we all know it’s because they’ve forgotten that Christ is truly present in tabernacle if the little red light’s on. Oh, hang on, where’s the tabernacle?
Lucky for me, after having moved to France 6 years ago I now sing in a beautiful choir, the Gregorian chant each Sunday, where the tabernacle is above the altar, (dare I say it, in its proper place, oops), and everyone bar none genuflect!
Answer to problem = put the tabernacle back and teach everyone about the True Presence.