Getting rid of kneelers

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I’ve noticed more and more parishes are getting rid of kneelers in the main congregation once they refurbished it with carpet. The reason I got is that people can just kneel on the carpet and the kneelers are a tripping hazard.

I’m not sure that this is good for knees but I guess one always have the option of just sitting instead of kneeling.

Is this happening in your parish?
 
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Kneeler so constantly break, are noisy and can actually hurt people.
 
I wonder whether anyone has done a study on damages to the knee on Catholics.
 
That’s terrible, we should be kneeling to our King.

Talk to your priests about your concerns.
 
As young as I am, I have fairly bad joints. I would search out a new parish if mine removed them, or sneak in a pillow under my jacket if that were to happen.
 
I have a few times. generally I’m shamed into kneeling. I get hip and back pain when I kneel. Even standing sometimes. If I take my painkillers before Mass, I can usually kneel and stand as required.
 
Be right back, going to do a study on my parish xD
 
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Yes, wonderful carpet, plush carpet, with that new carpet smell that makes you just want to lie face down on it and inhale. And, it’s soft, I mean really soft, so soft you could go to sleep for hours on it, maybe even for eternity. It is soft like a mist falling at nightfall in the midst of silence. It’s touch like a sky turning into a sheet of gray as the finest of droplets of rain pleasantly sprinkle down upon a bed of roses, their hues too heavenly to describe, lightly spreading their delicate petals, their premium fibers, across this holy floor, like crystalline beads, gently dripping onto the ground, in a soft melody of utter carpet symphony.
 
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Nope… my parish is actually talking about slowly buying new, super thick padding for our kneelers.

BTW - in regards to getting rid of kneelers there is a parish in Ocean City, Maryland that has a parish & education center approx 20 blocks from their main church. In the summer, they use the “ballroom” in the parish center for extra Masses. The chairs used are the same chairs used for dinners, etc (hence no kneelers on the chairs). Even though there is carpet, the overwhelming majority do not kneel.

Even though this parish didn’t remove kneelers, because they are using the ballroom for Mass in the summer, it is a good example of how carpet doesn’t mean parishioners will kneel.

I know that a lot of priests have throw rugs behind the altar to help them when they kneel, but priests and deacons have to remember, they don’t kneel any where as long as the lay faithful do.

Removing kneelers only does one thing… it stops kneeling in the parish.
 
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Personally, I prefer kneelers 🤓
 
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ratio1 said:
I wonder whether anyone has done a study on damages to the knee on Catholics.
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I have bad knees, esp my right knee which has gotten worse from genuflecting. My pastor has told me that I don’t have to kneel when I don’t want to (and I’m only 40).

I’ve personally convinced him to start a multi-year project to replace the kneelers with thick (several inches) foam padding.
 
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Nope… my parish is actually talking about slowly buying new, super thick padding for our kneelers.
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I actually offered to donate the cost of installing kneelers thinking that the parish was poor but they don’t want them actually.

I suppose their reasoning do make sense though. Kneelers can be dangerous.
 
This reminds me of my Catholic grammar school where we learned how to set the kneelers down quietly and discretely with one foot to avoid slamming them.
 
I find the carpeted floor more comfortable for my knees than the kneelers, but without them, the pews are an awkward height and, of course, there are other people in the pew…
 
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