Kneeling and silence during the Creed

[AMDG1]

Dr. Bombay:

I’m as serious as a heart attack, Stephen.

I forgot a few things. Instead of responding, “Lord hear our prayer” at the Prayers of the Faithful, they changed that to some new agey something or other like, “Mighty Creator hear our prayer.”.

“Mighty Creator”? I got “Maranatha…come Lord Jesus, come” Never heard “maranatha” before but a few days later in my grocery store I noticed that it’s a brand of all natural peanut butter (seriously) but they spell it “Mara Natha” as two words. Maybe the parish was invoking Jesus to return in glory with a jar of peanut butter…?

Seriously, I know what maranatha means…but heck - couldn’t they stick with something that’s at least logical? I mean if we’re saying “special intentions” otherwise known as the “prayers of the faithful” (I think)…doesn’t “Lord hear our prayer” make more sense? I mean, why mess around with something that works?

 

[Melissa]

Once again, I am thankful for my parish.

On the Masses for Christmas (oldest son and I went to Midnight, the whole family went to 9am on Christmas Day), we all knelt at the appropriate time (and everyone does bow at Mass otherwise at that point). No hanky-panky w/ the words of Mass. Bells, incense (we even had trumpets at Midnight), and people who know the original words to the Christmas songs so that it doesn’t matter that the missalette has those stupid revised lyrics (whatever they changed “pleased as Man with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel” to–I won’t even open the missalette to the song because I know it’ll be bad for my blood pressure). (I hate, despise, loathe, and even detest “inclusive language”. I think it’s patronizing.)

 

[Lux_et_veritas]

Melissa:

Once again, I am thankful for my parish.

On the Masses for Christmas (oldest son and I went to Midnight, the whole family went to 9am on Christmas Day), we all knelt at the appropriate time (and everyone does bow at Mass otherwise at that point). No hanky-panky w/ the words of Mass. Bells, incense (we even had trumpets at Midnight), and people who know the original words to the Christmas songs so that it doesn’t matter that the missalette has those stupid revised lyrics (whatever they changed “pleased as Man with men to dwell, Jesus our Emmanuel” to–I won’t even open the missalette to the song because I know it’ll be bad for my blood pressure). (I hate, despise, loathe, and even detest “inclusive language”. I think it’s patronizing.)

This fellow female agrees

I had no idea when I first got to Grotto and saw all the people profoundly bow from the waist during the Creed that it was a posture prescribed in the GIRM.

In my parish, prior to Mass they announced that everyone who is able, should drop to two knees at Midnight Mass and that there would be a slight pause before rising. This was beautiful.