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cheese_sdc
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This. Good answer.
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corsair
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Its things like this that re-inforce my desire to attend the TLM exclusively.
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CatholicLife
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Unfortunately for me the closest TLM is about two hours away.
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tmancath
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He is quite wrong. I am an adult alter server and I receive while kneeling weather I am serving that Sunday or not. You are well aware of what the GIRM says. You need to inform your priest and to let him know what kind of leadership the youth is getting.
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m134e5
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It isn’t the youth leader’s place to say you shouldn’t receive communion kneeling. The U.S. bishops have said that the norm for reception of Communion in the United States is standing. They go on to say that those who choose to kneel are not to be denied communion, but should be counseled on the reasons for the norm. I don’t think the bishops really go into WHO should counsel, but I would think the pastor would be the best person for that- not another lay person.
If I were in your position, I would be very tempting to ask the youth director exactly how showing a form of reverence when receiving communion that was the norm for hundreds of years in the Latin rite of the Church- and is currently the norm for those receiving communion from the Holy Father- “sets a bad example”.
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CatholicLife
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I told him about the Holy Father but he said people just do that to make themselves look more holy.
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amgp
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Lex orandi, lex credendi…the law of prayer is the law of belief, and the law of belief is the law of prayer. In other words, if we just stand there like we’re at the McDonald’s counter while receiving almighty God, it makes it pretty difficult to imagine that we really believe what is taking place. Those who get down on their knees to receive don’t do it to make themselves “look more holy”, but to acknowledge what is truly taking place, and showing a proper form of reverence to God that has been mandated by the Church for hundreds of years (up until the past 40 years), and the form of reverence that is currently mandated by the Vicar of Christ for those who receive from him.
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japhy
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You should politely request he stop judging others.
Or you could retort that people like him tell people not to kneel to make themselves look more powerful.
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FrDavid96
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I don’t know if you’ve studdied any philosophy, but this is a typical technique used by people who have no legitimate argument to make–in fact, there’s even a name for it. It’s called the “Ad Hominem” fallacy. It means that when one has nothing reasonable to say, he attacks the person saying it instead.
Regardless of people’s motivation (and naturally, I disagree with that characterization in the first place), it doesn’t change the fact that kneeling to receive is a legitimate option.
However, do keep in mind that whether or not you have that option when you attend Mass, once you agree to serve Mass, you are placing yourself under the authority of the priest who is celebrating that particular Mass. In other words, if the priest saying that Mass doesn’t want you to kneel, then you have an obligation to defer to his decision–or simply choose not to volunteer in the first place. That does not mean that the priest can tell the altar boys to do something which is against the liturgical norns of the Church–for example, he’d be wrong to say that they should proclaim the Gospel. In this particular case, either kneeling or standing is legitimate, so the only person to whom you need to answer is the priest saying that Mass–no one else’s opinion matters. Even if that youth leader were “in charge” of the altar boy program (which we now know he is not), the decision of the priest saying that particular Mass always overrules anyone else’s opinion (again, as long as it’s within the Church’s norms).
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MusicMan
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Aw, shucks!
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