Kneeling for the our father at Ordinary Form Mass

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Recently I’ve been attending an FSSP parish and in the Latin rite once the host has been consecrated you remain kneeling until you go up to the altar rail. Today at Novus ordo I stood for the our father and I felt bad doing it, same for the sign of peace. I know it’s part of the Novus ordo rite so I wanna respect its tradition but I was wondering if I have the option to remain kneeling until receiving. Thanks 🙂
 
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Talk to Father about it. Generally, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. A physical position may be conducive to worship but is not a replacement or requirement for worship - which comes from the heart.

Prostrate or standing, kneeling or lying flat on one’s back in a hospital bed, reverence comes from the heart.

Whatever the form of the mass calls for, it is best to obey for the sake of unity.
 
I went to a Spanish mass and noticed about 1/5 of the people were standing during consecration, anyone know why this is?
 
I say this as someone who loves the Traditional Mass…

The Latin Rite is pretty much the only Rite in all of Catholicism that kneels in general during liturgy. There is nothing disrespectful about standing during the Our Father if the rubrics call for it.

When you are in either part of Rome, Extraordinary or Ordinary, do as the Romans do (within the rubrics, of course.)
 
Aquinas11 said:
I went to a Spanish mass and noticed about 1/5 of the people were standing during consecration, anyone know why this is?
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Because in non-US countries people usually stand during consecration. They probably weren’t from US.

As I understand it, standing is actually the proper posture but the US has an indult for people to kneel because it’s traditional to kneel in USA. We had a thread on this regarding people standing in South Korea a couple weeks back.
 
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The GIRM says this :
  1. […] In the dioceses of the United States of America, they [i.e. the faithful] should kneel beginning after the singing or recitation of the Sanctus until after the Amen of the Eucharistic Prayer, except when prevented on occasion by reasons of health, lack of space, the large number of people present, or some other good reason. Those who do not kneel ought to make a profound bow when the priest genuflects after the consecration. The faithful kneel after the Agnus Dei unless the diocesan Bishop determines otherwise.
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As an aside, I realized, looking for that paragraph in English, that these determinations vary according to where one lives. In French, paragraph 43 says that the faithful are to kneel during consecration, unless the local custom is to kneel from the end of the Sanctus to the concluding elevation at the end of the eucharistic prayer.
 
I was raised in Europe and remember kneeling. TLM is kneeling. What do you mean by “proper posture”? CCC?

Maybe in Latin American countries, they stand?
 
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Even in the old rite we stand at a solemn high mass for the our father so it’s not to bad, but I can understand if you want to avoid the sign of peace most certainly. I suppose there’s nothing wrong with participating silently in a mass(as a lay person), if you want to kneel at the back throughout for example and say nothing, but it’s not the usual done thing nowadays nor is it necessary.

While it’s not supported in the modern rubrics anymore, if you are a traditional catholic who’s accidentally present at the new rite because the old rite isn’t available or because it’s nearer etc or your with somebody who’s there, God will certainly not hold you accountable if you kneel in silence before him throughout mass in any case. Your desire for reverence of the blessed sacrament will certainly be honored by God and is what matters the most. God bless
 
Jragzz123 said:
Recently I’ve been attending an FSSP parish and in the Latin rite once the host has been consecrated you remain kneeling until you go up to the altar rail. Today at Novus ordo I stood for the our father and I felt bad doing it, same for the sign of peace. I know it’s part of the Novus ordo rite so I wanna respect its tradition but I was wondering if I have the option to remain kneeling until receiving. Thanks 🙂
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If you feel really strongly about it just keep kneeling. I often go to Mass in the city Cathedral which naturally has a lot of oversees visitors for Mass doing all manner of things. Standing, kneeling, orans, holding hands. I assume that most people would just assume you come from a different Catholic tradition and get on with it. I think it would be a problem only if you were trying to make a statement about being better than everyone else in reverence.
 
Standing during the Our Father is not an irreverent posture, so I stand when at NO (not at NO very often), as well as for the most part follow all the other rubrics of that particular Mass. Just like when visitors come to TLM, we would expect them to follow our rubrics, kneel when we kneel, etc. Same if we visit an Eastern Rite.

Feelings really don’t play into this, as they don’t determine if something is right or wrong.
 
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While it’s not supported in the modern rubrics anymore, if you are a traditional catholic who’s accidentally present at the new rite because the old rite isn’t available or because it’s nearer etc or your with somebody who’s there, God will certainly not hold you accountable if you kneel in silence before him throughout mass in any case. Your desire for reverence of the blessed sacrament will certainly be honored by God and is what matters the most. God bless
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So…if I went to the EF and stood throughout the Mass because it made me feel more reverent, you’d be OK with that?
 
This logic can be pushed too far (as with most anything), but keep in mind the mass is not private worship. It is liturgical, public, community worship and part of worshipping is acting as one and not doing your own thing. If the mass or properly following the appropriate rite, do as the Roman’s do. Again, this logic has its extremes, but it’s a good general principle.
 
The main reason this logical doesn’t work is, that the difference is as follows: there are plenty of new rite masses all over the place, so you and anyone who would think of doing this would have no reason to attend the old rite if you have no interest in such centuries of beautiful inspiration inspired by the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, there are very few old rite masses available, and so some, like me and the writer of the post have to attend the new rite sometimes in order to be at Calvary, unless we travel miles, and so we have to make the most of what we can get, and normally in churches which originally had the traditional mass and now suddenly no longer do.

Also, regardless of who is right, to kneel or even to sit is a discreet act, but to stand up while everyone is sitting is to clearly and deliberately stick out, but that’s fine, be my guest. I have no guilt in being the only one kneeling, but if I was the only one standing, it’s not so much just guilt but I’d feel very embarrassed. Although to be honest, hopefully I would not notice if someone was standing because I hope that I would be occupied by prayer and focusing on the lord at that moment.
 
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Well… at the FSSP Parish I often attend, we kneel during the Our Father when it’s a Low Mass, but we stand during the Our Father when it’s a High Mass.

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The Ordinary Form is based on the High Mass, but the option to “say” the whole mass instead of singing it. It’s kind of like a hybrid between the two.
 
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That may very well be, and we will answer to God for this at the throne of judgement, but among the many things that do worry me about that day, this is most definitely not one of them
 
Aquinas11 said:
I went to a Spanish mass and noticed about 1/5 of the people were standing during consecration, anyone know why this is?
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In Spain (which may or may not have any bearing on your experience), people only kneel if they intend to receive, and only during the actual words of consecration - the rest of the time is standing. Americans kneel a bit more than our European brothers and sisters.
 
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