Don’t use the kneelers

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You’re fortunate. There is currently no opportunity to receive on the tongue in the UK!
 
RIght The experts say how important masks and distance are. They are downgrading the importance of getting it by touch and a kneeler I use my foot to raice and lower but even if you got this by touch you would have to use your hand in the exact place that the last person did We don’t eat with our knees to get in in our face.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
my present parish is a historical church where the pews were built when people were more diminutive
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I have always wondered why kneelers seemed too small. Now I know!

I can’t use them because my knees are bad, so I too kneel on the floor.
 
Every parish has got its own weird little ways of coping with the COVID. Some of them insist you come in one particular door and go out another, some have certain pews designated for certain Masses, some have odd Communion line patterns. I just offer it up and look forward to this being over.

I agree the kneeler business is particularly silly.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
I am very long-waisted, I have difficulty kneeling in the first place, and my present parish is a historical church where the pews were built when people were more diminutive. I either do the quasi-kneeling thing where I rest my posterior on the edge of the pew, or if I do kneel, I kneel on the bare floor to accommodate my height and long torso.
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I am shaped in a manner that makes it difficult for me to use most kneelers because my large bust tends to hit right where the top of the pew is and there isn’t enough space for me to kneel comfortably.

I generally rest my butt against the pew so I will fit in the space and not have uncomfortable pressure on anything.

For kneeling on floors with no pews, I cannot kneel up straight because my muscles aren’t strong enough and it hurts the bones in my knees, so I kneel like a Japanese person. I can do that okay for a while.
 
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Here, we’re still under a prohibition from the bishop to not attend Mass anywhere other than our parish of registration, so you would have either known the procedure or quite possibly have been stopped at the door from what I understand.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
For kneeling on floors with no pews, I cannot kneel up straight because my muscles aren’t strong enough and it hurts the bones in my knees, so I kneel like a Japanese person. I can do that okay for a while.
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You are not obliged to kneel.
 
I know I’m not obliged to kneel. Many of us like to do it anyway. At the Mass where this typically happens, the vast majority of people there do kneel of their own accord.
 
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Late to the party here. You handled that well. I would’ve had to respond, and knowing me, my response would’ve necessitated a subsequent trip to the confessional.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
I know I’m not obliged to kneel. Many of us like to do it anyway. At the Mass where this typically happens, the vast majority of people there do kneel of their own accord.
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I was really meaning people who have some physical problems kneeling and getting up don’t have to. They may sit.
 
I’m sorry but there was nothing “gentle“ in her reminder. It sounded like she was more upset that another surface needed to be sanitized and her feeling the need to point out that you were the only one kneeling, was just condescending.

It’s nonsense like this, that is going to have the most negative impact on Catholics who are trying to return to Mass.

I would’ve asked the lady if there was an official restriction against using the kneelers and if there was, they need to make sure it is posted in a way that everyone who enters the Church is made aware of it.

If she said no, I think you would’ve been fully justified in asking her to refrain from implementing their own personal restrictions on what we should and should not be doing during Mass.
 
Do you regularly touch your face with your knees? Or doorhandles or anything else? Also, most people have pants that cover their knees.
 
Yes I mean knee to knee transmission via a kneeler? It would be one thing if they were just SUPER careful but to care about the kneeles and not wear mask?!?
 
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HomeschoolDad:
but I can see the point of wanting to have as few surfaces to sanitize as possible.
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Oh please.
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Yes, that is quite right. We are going through a bizarre event, and nobody knows quite how to deal with it. It is easier just to sanitize all surfaces that people have touched, rather than parse things out and say “if you touch this, it could spread the virus, but it’s okay if you touch this, because the virus doesn’t spread that way”. The cleaning people are in a hurry to do as much as they can, as quickly as possible. And young children love to crawl around on the floor and kneelers like little monkeys. Been there, done that.

In a perfect world, we would just quarantine everybody in their homes, and deliver food and commodities to their doorsteps until a certainly effective vaccine is developed. (In that perfect world, the logistics to run the supply chain would just miracle themselves into existence, I guess.) But we can’t do that, not even anything close to it. People are chomping at the bit to get out and live normal lives. Religious people want to get back to church services, and heaven knows, our young collegiate scholars, the future of our intellectual capital, are just frantic to get back into the “party scene”, with disastrous consequences on many college campuses.
Tis_Bearself said:
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HomeschoolDad:
I am very long-waisted, I have difficulty kneeling in the first place, and my present parish is a historical church where the pews were built when people were more diminutive. I either do the quasi-kneeling thing where I rest my posterior on the edge of the pew, or if I do kneel, I kneel on the bare floor to accommodate my height and long torso.
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I am shaped in a manner that makes it difficult for me to use most kneelers because my large bust tends to hit right where the top of the pew is and there isn’t enough space for me to kneel comfortably.

I generally rest my butt against the pew so I will fit in the space and not have uncomfortable pressure on anything.

For kneeling on floors with no pews, I cannot kneel up straight because my muscles aren’t strong enough and it hurts the bones in my knees, so I kneel like a Japanese person. I can do that okay for a while.
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I feel your pain. Sometimes I just don’t kneel at all. There is far more to prayer than just mere posture.

Back in the 1980s, when I attended an SSPX-affiliated chapel, I had to marvel at those people — they had knees like iron! Yet one more reason I never quite fit in there.
 
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Montrose said:
Why do we need to regularly sanitize our hands? Because the virus can survive on the skin for at least hours. A person’s knees could just as easily have been in contact with the virus. It doesn’t have to “ooze” through the skin. It can be on the skin.
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typically neither men nor women would be wearing clothes in church that leave the knees uncovered.
 
tuffsmurf said:
Do you regularly touch your face with your knees? Or doorhandles or anything else? Also, most people have pants that cover their knees.
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The virus survives also on clothes and you are being silly with that comment about touching knees to face!! You can touch you knees (bare skin or pants) with your hands and then touch your face.
 
Cirdan_XII said:
typically neither men nor women would be wearing clothes in church that leave the knees uncovered.
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I guess you don’t live in a tropical country with hot temperatures and Churches with no aircon. It is normal for both men and women to wear shorts. However, as I said in another post it does not matter if your bare skin or pants touch a kneeler the virus can survive on both and it is certainly not uncommon for people to touch their knees or pants and then touch their face,
 
Yeah, sure. But I won’t spend my life in fear over every single bad thing that can happen. How do you cope with driving a car?
 
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