Changes in kneeling for Lent

[ma1366]

Our parish has us kneel during the Lord have Mercy, Christ have Mercy part of Mass. We don’t do this at any other time during the year. Does a parish priest have the right to change this part of the Mass?
thanks.

 

[passus]

This was going to happen at our church, too. Someone brought it up at the liturgy committee meeting and I firmly argued the suggestion and the idea was dismissed.

Kneeling is not the prescribed posture during this part of the Mass.

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Our parish has us kneel during the Lord have Mercy, Christ have Mercy part of Mass. We don’t do this at any other time during the year. Does a parish priest have the right to change this part of the Mass?
thanks.

No

 

[japhy]

During Lent, our pastor has us kneel for the Final Blessing and Dismissal, and for the procession (in silence) out of the church. I’m not too keen on that.

 

[Joe_5859]

“Therefore no other person [besides the Pope], even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority” (emphasis added).
- 22Sacrosanctum Concilium

Someone was going to quote this eventually, so I figured I’d do it first.

 

[Brendan]

During Lent, our pastor has us kneel for the Final Blessing and Dismissal, and for the procession (in silence) out of the church. I’m not too keen on that.

For the final blessing and dismissal, that would be an illegal addition to the liturgy.

The procession is not actually part of the Liturgy ( Mass really does end when the Deacon says it does “This Mass is ended”), so that is not an abuse.

 

[EvelynEVF]

In my parish, we use the Confiteor in Lent, and kneel for that, followed by the absolution (?) by the priest and the Kyrie by the deacon.

Is this wrong? Should we be standing right after the Confiteor?

 

[japhy]

In the Ordinary Form, there is no kneeling during the Penitential Rite.