Do you ever genuflect in church?

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As a child I was taught to genuflect when entering a pew.
Now it seems no one genuflects
 
Almost everyone at my parish genuflects before entering or after leaving a pew… Most actually kneel in prayer as the first thing they do after entering the pew…
 
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I’m Byzantine, so no. But if I go to a Latin Rite parish I do.
 
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I still genuflect, and plan to do so for as long as my old knees allow. Some people do more like a curtsey or a bow, but I just assume that’s as much as they’re physically able to do.
 
Most people at my parish do. Those who don’t are either elderly, a parent holding a young child, or a visitor that isn’t Catholic.
 
Most everyone genuflects before entering and upon leaving the pews, other than it appears visiting protestants who do not know what it is about.
They do this whether it is for Mass, or any other time in the sanctuary, since the Tabernacle contains Jesus’ Body in repose, or in the adoration chapel coming and going.

I was once in a parish where the Tabernacle was not beyond the altar, and it seemed that there was a different atmosphere there, almost less “reverent”???
 
If you genuflect, it is suposed to be toward the Tabernacle.
If there is no Tabernacle behind the altar, a profound bow (at the waist) is what is required.
 
Yahhh. And I teach my kids as well. And I tell them why we’re genuflecting/what we’re genuflecting towards, so that it’s not an empty gesture.
 
Or a visitor who is Eastern Catholic and doesn’t know that in the Latin Rite, parishioners genuflect.
 
Always.

Though my understanding is that the genuflection is for the tabernacle (when it has the Real Presence inside) and in cases where the tabernacle is in a different chapel or empty a reverant bow to the altar is appropriate. But my understanding could be wrong. The liturgy and praxis isn’t my forte.
 
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When I get a rare opportunity to be in the congregation, I genuflect before entering a pew.

More often, I’m one of the sanctuary staff and I genuflect towards the tabernacle as I approach the sacristy. When we approach the sanctuary, we first make a profound bow to the altar and then genuflect to the tabernacle which if off to one side. During Mass, we normally make a profound bow to the altar if we have to cross the centre before the Eucharistic Prayer or after Holy Communion. During the period when the Blessed Sacrament is present on the altar, we genuflect. Upon leaving the sanctuary, we bow to the altar and genuflect to the tabernacle again.

Some 70 years of genuflecting (which I can do without putting a hand on my knee or floor and without grabbing a pew) has left me with remarkably supple limbs for my age. Few of our younger altar servers have sufficient strength to rise from a kneeling position with their hands joined.
 
People either bow or genuflect in my church, depending most likely on the state of their knees.
 
I wish I could- I genuflect lightly but I can’t maintain that posture 😦
 
Pretty much everyone at our church genuflects and only those who are physically prohibited neglect to actually touch the floor
Some genuflect at the entrance to the chapel as well. It’s only polite
 
Nice username btw. 🙂

Almost everybody I see genuflects before entering and after leaving pews.

I personally genuflect when entering the church and before leaving, at the doors, but not around the pews, so long as I don’t forget to do it entering the church. If I do forget, or if I’m late for Mass, then I do do it before entering my pew.
 
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No… but I’m not Catholic.

Do you have a fair amount of non-Catholics who attend with family?
 
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