Kneeling Before Entering Pew, and Before the Altar?

[ccmcmg]

I have no problem with that but the other poster who quoted from the GIRM seems to think we should be like these nodding dogs you see in the back window of cars.

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a) A bow of the head is made when the three Divine Persons are named together and at the names of Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Saint in whose honor Mass is being celebrated.
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How practical is that? I think I would suffer from whiplash having to do this dozens of times during a Mass.

I never knew this until recently, and have been trying to train myself to do so. Yes, I have looked like a bobblehead, or at the least, felt like one! But is it more important how we look to others, or feel about ourselves, versus how we honor and respect God?

One time during Mass, Father mentioned Jesus by name what seemed like dozens of times! Another priest, he gives a VERY reverent head bow at the appropriate times, and seems to do so a few times during the Homily (which is where I was first inspired to learn more about the head bow). It didn’t slow up or distract from his Homily at all.

Not at all, I do it without any discomfort. People have been doing head bows for centuries (though it has largely fallen into disuse in our reverence-bereft age). If a sacred name repeats a lot in a short space of time, you simply bow once and skip the rest for that particular prayer, reading, or sermon. At least that’s how the FSSP clergy do it.

That said, the head bows are a matter of devotion / custom, and not required under pain of sin.

I’m still learning; I’m glad to see others do it as well. I added the additional info in my sig line below, BBHN, a few months ago.