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CilladeRoma
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I would stand up, run to him and give him a great big bear hug!
That is what I usually do to people I love.
That is what I usually do to people I love.
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CilladeRoma
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Yes, an interesting STORY.
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misstherese
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Do you have sources I can find on that?
There is a reason we dont use Aramaic in the mass, or kiss a paddle during the sign of peace. The mass changes organically. We don’t go back to the original times because the Church has traditions that stuck because they were meant to stick.
You could argue standing during communion is a tradition that is meant to stay. I would disagree with you because it’s only here on an indult. If things don’t go according to the rules of the indult, we would go back to kneeling…why we haven’t yet, I don’t know because clearly the rules have been breached according to it.
There is a reason we dont use Aramaic in the mass, or kiss a paddle during the sign of peace. The mass changes organically. We don’t go back to the original times because the Church has traditions that stuck because they were meant to stick.
You could argue standing during communion is a tradition that is meant to stay. I would disagree with you because it’s only here on an indult. If things don’t go according to the rules of the indult, we would go back to kneeling…why we haven’t yet, I don’t know because clearly the rules have been breached according to it.
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BoyGenius
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The Church used to have people walk up to a Communion rail, wherefore people knelt. But this phenomenon was really only practiced in the U.S. Which out of all the things Mass wise that happened out here, I’d say the Communion rail was a good one.
I kneel before Jesus during Communion. But I always leave space between the person in front and in back of me. For any Devotion should be good ground for the soul, but not an obstacle/hindrance/distraction to someone else.
I kneel before Jesus during Communion. But I always leave space between the person in front and in back of me. For any Devotion should be good ground for the soul, but not an obstacle/hindrance/distraction to someone else.
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BlackFriar
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That’s a distillation of what I learnt from my professor of Church history over three years back in the 1980s. If he was even half right you will easily find corroboration on the Net I suspect.Do you have sources I can find on that?
I am not arguing anything other than that kneeling was never the mainstream form of public liturgical praying in the first 400 years of the Church nor in the Old Testament.You could argue standing during communion is a tradition that is meant to stay.
Nor was there such a thing as Benediction, Eucharistic Adoration, red lamps or popping into a chapel to “sit with Jesus” because the “Real Presence” concept we have acquired since medieval times did not actually exist back then. The seeds were of course there in so far as left over consecrated bread was usually stored somewhere respectful but that’s about it.
Likewise Catholic genuflections of respect for Jesus come from the Roman army custom of doing so when formally coming into the presence of a high ranking officer. This Roman custom was itself a former Babylonian court custom I believe.
Praying with two hands joined vertically of course isn’t a Catholic invention either. That comes from Buddhism, 600 years before Christianity.
Make of all this what you will.
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