Kneeling for Communion is NOT disobedient

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It happens in my parish every Sunday.
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Seriously, that shouldn’t be. You nor anyone else in the congregation can be made to do so. I wasn’t being deliberately flip.
 
By this time I have to assume that no one has the answer as to what the reasons are why standing is the norm in the United States, Amazing, I thought someone would have jumped all over it by now :confused:

After all the instructions say that the person should be pastorally instructed as to the reasons for the norm. So, someone must have been instructed right? I mean there has to be a reason behind this thing. Otherwise they wouldn’t have said instructed as to the reasons.
 
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By this time I have to assume that no one has the answer as to what the reasons are why standing is the norm in the United States, Amazing, I thought someone would have jumped all over it by now :confused:

After all the instructions say that the person should be pastorally instructed as to the reasons for the norm. So, someone must have been instructed right? I mean there has to be a reason behind this thing. Otherwise they wouldn’t have said instructed as to the reasons.
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confusion, as you have correctly expressed it, is part of the problem. We seem to want so much from B16 to stop all this confusion. Guess we need to give him time. A well formed conscience will have to suffice for now.
 
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By this time I have to assume that no one has the answer as to what the reasons are why standing is the norm in the United States, Amazing, I thought someone would have jumped all over it by now :confused:

After all the instructions say that the person should be pastorally instructed as to the reasons for the norm. So, someone must have been instructed right? I mean there has to be a reason behind this thing. Otherwise they wouldn’t have said instructed as to the reasons.
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Hey, Palmas, I haven’t gotten back to our thread yet, don’t be mad.

As to your question, haven’t a clue. No more communion rails, for the most part? I’d be just as happy to kneel (if we all were told to do it), but I suspect that announcement would be followed by “and no one’s rec. from the Chalice!,” and you know how I feel about that (though I trust I would obey).
 
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confusion, as you have correctly expressed it, is part of the problem. We seem to want so much from B16 to stop all this confusion. Guess we need to give him time. A well formed conscience will have to suffice for now.
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But that’s just it…a well-formed conscience tells us what? Obey the bishops, through the priests? The Holy See? I never saw a reason not to do what the bishops asked me, esp. since they had the permission of the Holy See, ie, the pope, though I can certainly see that kneeling is, at the very least, a subjectively more reverent posture, esp. given Who we believe the priest to be holding in his hand. But as for that, shouldn’t we be crawling up the aisles, then prostrating ourselves on our faces? I mean, again, given Who the priest is holding?
 
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By this time I have to assume that no one has the answer as to what the reasons are why standing is the norm in the United States, Amazing, I thought someone would have jumped all over it by now :confused:

After all the instructions say that the person should be pastorally instructed as to the reasons for the norm. So, someone must have been instructed right? I mean there has to be a reason behind this thing. Otherwise they wouldn’t have said instructed as to the reasons.
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How about this? Taken from… adoremus.org/1002Kneeling.html

Adoremus has received dozens of phone calls and letters (some of them published in AB) from people who are concerned about the prohibition of kneeling to receive Holy Communion or, even more commonly, at other parts of the Mass where it is customary to kneel (e.g., after the Agnus Dei and following reception of Communion). Dozens more report that they are also being ordered not to genuflect or make the sign of the cross before they receive.
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				Yet we have not had even one report that any priest or bishop   has been concerned about people making *no gesture of reverence   at all* -- not even the prescribed "bow of the head"   before receiving Holy Communion.
				
				 Why this inconsistency?     

 **"Catechesis" on   reverence?**
				Many Catholics see these new restrictions placed on customary   gestures of devotion as reflecting a de-sacralizing attitude   towards the Blessed Sacrament; and the restriction on kneeling,   genuflecting, etc., is perceived as a determined effort by some   Church authorities to diminish the honor and reverence due the   Blessed Sacrament. This perception is increased when such draconian   efforts to get people off their knees comes at a time when confidence   in bishops' governance is at such a low ebb because of the sex-abuse   scandals and cover-ups that have plagued the Church throughout   the entire year.
				
				An unsigned article on USCCB Liturgy committee's web site, "Postures   and Gestures at Mass", states that standing "from the   earliest days of the Church, has been understood as the stance   of those who are risen with Christ and seek the things that are   above. When we stand for prayer we assume our full stature before   God, not in pride, but in humble gratitude for the marvelous   thing God has done in creating and redeeming each one of us.   By Baptism we have been given a share in the life of God, and   the posture of standing is an acknowledgment of this wonderful   gift".
This article, one of a series of BCL bulletin inserts intended for “catechesis” on the liturgy repeats a liturgists’ nostrum that kneeling to express reverence at Mass 1) was an innovation of the middle-ages; and 2) originated in feudal times as a gesture of fealty of a vassal to an overlord.
 
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This thread is now closed. Thanks to all who participated in the discussion.
 
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