Genuflection during the Creed

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How many people remembered to genuflect (at the OF) on Christmas where one should normally bow? Did parishes seem at all aware of this rubric?

I’m a big fan of the practice (one of two times a year I’m allowed to genuflect at that point in the OF), but I’m pretty sure I was the only one at the parish who did it. Knowing that few people have ever even been told that we are to bow (profoundly) at “By the power of the Holy Spirit…and became man,” I highly doubt they know about this, but I wanted to chart the general awareness in the pews.
 
Our priest called for a 10 sec reflection as we genuflected before the Creed began. At other times he bows at that part of the Creed.

Of course, he also says a latin Mass every second Sunday, rotating with another priest so he is used to doing it.

He is not too popular with those who want modern liturgical practices because he is not politically correct or compromising with those who are ignorant of the GIRM.
 
We also did it on Christmas Eve.

I do this every week at the EF. I have heard that you are supposed to make a profound bow during the OF.
 
TraderTif said:
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You are?? :confused:

No one ever told me!!
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The priest at our OF parish told us at mass quite some time ago. very few people remember to bow. I am usually the only one who does. At the EF mass I attend sometimes, everybody in the church genuflects at that part of the credo.
 
That was something new I learned yesterday. 🙂 (should be another poll option) We genuflected during the part we usually bow during the Creed.
 
Yes, I remembered. The Bishop (the Mass was on the Cathedral of Oporto) announced it, although many people didn’t understand what he said.
 
Did we ever stop? Not at my parish. Genuflect at the words “and was made man” same way we did at “et homo factus est” fort years earlier. But then we don’t hold hands during the Our Father.
 
Andreas_Hofer said:
How many people remembered to genuflect (at the OF) on Christmas where one should normally bow? Did parishes seem at all aware of this rubric?

I’m a big fan of the practice (one of two times a year I’m allowed to genuflect at that point in the OF), but I’m pretty sure I was the only one at the parish who did it. Knowing that few people have ever even been told that we are to bow (profoundly) at “By the power of the Holy Spirit…and became man,” I highly doubt they know about this, but I wanted to chart the general awareness in the pews.
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I was prepared to and was ready to. I noticed however at the beginning that we were saying the Creed at a much faster pace then usual, and of course flew right through the words of the Incarnation, non-stop. It would not have been possible to, or you would have gotten back up in the middle of the section on the Holy Spirit! Yes, I believe it was intentional, to prevent people from genuflecting or kneeling.
 
I remembered. Also our Celebrant (Fr. Leo) just prior to the Creed gave instruction as to how and why we were doing this so no one was wondering what was what.
 
I don’t know who, at the Mass I attended, genuflected. My wife was feeling pretty ill, so she was leaning against the front of the pew to remain standing (she was considering just sitting down at one point); I genuflected. The priest (with the “Breaking Bread” hymnal in his hands, open to the Creed, which includes the instruction to genuflect) did not genuflect, but he is also quite aged.

I didn’t notice anyone else genuflecting. There was no announcement or reminder. Oh well. 😦
 
We did not attend our usual parish yesterday, but the parish we did go to did genuflect. Monsignor did remind everyone why we do this before hand. But this parish does bow during the Creed at every other Mass, so it wasn’t much of a stretch for everyone.

~Liza
 
:yup: We did. 👍 I figured we would as the priest who said Mass is the one who always bows at the appropriate moment. He announced that we would right before the Creed, but apparently many people didn’t get it as they barreled on through that part and seemed rather confused when he stopped for a moment to genuflect. 🤷
 
The priest asked us to pause and bow towards the manger scene after the phrase about the Incarnation.
 
Br.Rich_SFO said:
I was prepared to and was ready to. I noticed however at the beginning that we were saying the Creed at a much faster pace then usual, and of course flew right through the words of the Incarnation, non-stop. It would not have been possible to, or you would have gotten back up in the middle of the section on the Holy Spirit! Yes, I believe it was intentional, to prevent people from genuflecting or kneeling.
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It’s the government … :rolleyes:
 
Andreas_Hofer said:
How many people remembered to genuflect (at the OF) on Christmas where one should normally bow? Did parishes seem at all aware of this rubric?

I’m a big fan of the practice (one of two times a year I’m allowed to genuflect at that point in the OF), but I’m pretty sure I was the only one at the parish who did it. Knowing that few people have ever even been told that we are to bow (profoundly) at “By the power of the Holy Spirit…and became man,” I highly doubt they know about this, but I wanted to chart the general awareness in the pews.
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I didn’t know about the genuflecting in place of the bow. 😦 When’s the other time of the year that we do this?

I did however do the usual bow 🙂
 
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