Your profile does not say where you are. So I cannot address your question specifically.** However for instance here in the U.S. The Bishops have determined that standing is the norm for receiving Holy Communion. The Faithful of the U.S. when attending an Ordinary Form Mass should follow this norm, instead of their own wims and fancy.** When attending an Extraordinary Form Mass and an altar rail is used I personally choose to kneel, because kneeling at an altar rail is normal. However one may choose to stand at the altar rail also if they wish to receive in their hand.
Rome has instructed that anyone who does kneel at an Ordinary Form Mass without an altar rail in use is NOT to be denied Holy Communion. But should be spoken to at a later time and the norm explained. Suddenly kneeling when others might not be expecting you to do so may cause others to trip, stumble or fall, this would not be good.
My dear brother in Christ,
Your loyalty is to be commended, but I am of the opinioin that doing what is morally right, trumps the position that you espouse.
This is not “a whim or fancy,” we are in the Real and actual presence of OUR GOD!
Because a group of errant bishops decided to effect changes neither desired nor approved by Rome, until an indult was granted…AFTER the practice had been forced into common useage, hardly seems to be a MANDATE that should blindly accepted.
For those of us with a sufficient understanding of Whom and What we receive in Holy Communion, it would be morally wrong to God and to our own conscience to NOT at least genuflect and receive Jesus on our tongues, and only fro a Bishop, Priest or deacon.
I’m fear dear Brother in Christ, attitudes like your supporting here were a huge factor in leading the Catholic Church in America to where we are today.
A 2006 Pew Report stated that in 1965 about 70% of professed Catholics regularly fullfiled their Sunday and Holy day Obligation, today that number is closer to 25%.
The same Organization did a study on the Sacrament of Reconcillation, and report that only about 10% of professed Catholics go to Confession, even once a year.
Anything, ANYTHING, taht returns holiness and piety to our “Gathering Spaces” and hets them closer to once again becomming the House of and for God, I’m in favor of.
The Catecheism…
"1181 A church, “
a house of prayer in which the Eucharist is celebrated and reserved, where the faithful assemble, and where is worshipped the presence of the Son of God our Savior, offered for us on the sacrificial altar for the help and consolation of the faithful - this house ought to be in good taste and a worthy place for prayer and sacred ceremonial.” In this “house of God” the truth and the harmony of the signs that make
it up should show Christ to be present and active in this place."
Brother, I have read mutiple times the Vatican Ii and Post Vatican Documents, as well as the GRIM, and other documents. I have never seen where one “is to be spoken to after the Mass.” Could you please direct me to such a teaching? Thank you.
May God be with you my friend,
Peace, love and joy!
