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Why do we bow our head the first time we say the word Holly Spirit during the recitation of Creed?
 
=ADiosgracias;9733278]Why do we bow our head the first time we say the word Holly Spirit during the recitation of Creed?
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RIGHT ACTION but you “got the wrong words”

WE BOW OUR HEADS AT THE WORDS “HE [JESUS] BECAME INCARNATE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE VIRGIN MARY”

It is an act of REVERENCE for the Mother of God and the Intervention of the Holy Spirit who made it possible:)

God Bless,
Pat /PJM
 
ADiosgracias said:
Why do we bow our head the first time we say the word Holly Spirit during the recitation of Creed?
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I think the protocol is to show visible homage to God by bowing (it used to be genuflection) when we get to the part about the incarnation (“and was made man”).

The practice, in general, probably is a remnant of the homage described quite often in the Bible as men bowing down with their faces to the ground – to angels, to other men, and to God.

This type of profound bow survives in the ritual of ordination, when the candidate lays prostrate for a time, during the recitation of the litany of the saints, if I’m not mistaken.

Now, nobody – Jew or Christian – knows what the word “Selah” means in the Psalms. But, I think it is a profound bow, with face to the ground – an act of homage. If you look anyplace that it occurs, a profound bow would certainly “fit” the part of the prayer being said.

Such a profound bow is documented in both the Old and New Testaments.
 
It’s a sign of reverence for the Incarnation, begun at the words. “incarnatus est.”

Traditionally, Roman Catholics genuflected (everyone down on one knee) at this point in the Creed. We still do that at the traditional Latin Mass.
 
Now, nobody – Jew or Christian – knows what the word “Selah” means in the Psalms. But, I think it is a profound bow, with face to the ground – an act of homage.
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According to a Bible convention I attended this Summer, “Selah” in the Psalms means “pause and reflect”.
 
peter26 said:
According to a Bible convention I attended this Summer, “Selah” in the Psalms means “pause and reflect”.
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thank you. this is the best part that I like about these forums, when there is a variety of opinions. In fact, our impressions are not incompatible. You can “pause and reflect” while you are bowing with your face to the ground.
 
While I still admit that no one knows exactly what Selah means, I think that prostrating oneself is still the meaning

consider what PopeBenedict says on page 153 of his second volume of Jesus of Nazareth

(agony in the garden) Jesus falls on his face – the prayerposture of extreme submission to the will of God (my keyboard is not working well) --preserved in the Western liturgies at monastic professions and ordinations).
 
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