Kneeling or not when watching home mass

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I’m called to kneel during the virtual mass when at home but others in my group feel uncomfortable if I do. Should I not kneel to prevent others from getting upset and sinning and offer it up as a sacrifice?
 
How would anyone be sinning? 🤔

If you want to kneel, kneel. Or maybe watch alone if you really think kneeling is causing others discomfort somehow.
 
I guess by others saying don’t kneel or making them feel uncomfortable and indirectly making them feel that they should kneel and having that inner struggle
 
Strictly speaking, watching or listening to Mass at home — even if it is a live broadcast — is just a private devotion and is not “attending Mass”. You may adopt any posture you wish.

I pray we will all be able to get back to Mass and the sacraments sooner rather than later.
 
In my home, I do as I feel I should, so that would include kneeling IMO. However, I’ve not been viewing masses since the “stay home order,” so maybe I should focus on that instead of reading online forums so much.
 
Our priest encouraged us to kneel. This fell right in line with his request to silence and put away phones, set aside cups of coffee, etc. (For perspective, this is an OF parish that the purists sneer at for being “too liberal”).

If it’s livestreaming, then the consecration is happening in real time.

We didn’t make in time to the livestreaming but did knelt anyway to encourage good habits in the children.
 
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Our priest encouraged us to kneel. This fell right in line with his request to silence and put away phones, set aside cups of coffee, etc. (For perspective, this is an OF parish that the purists sneer at for being “too liberal”).

If it’s livestreaming, then the consecration is happening in real time.

We didn’t make in time to the livestreaming but did knelt anyway to encourage good habits in the children.
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It’s perfectly fine to kneel and adapt other pious postures and actions while watching Mass on TV be it live or recorded.

But it’s perfectly fine to watch the Mass seated on your favorite chair or sofa too as long as you’re attentive to it.

I personally wouldn’t have the Mass on TV in the background while focused on other matters though. To me that would be very disrespectful towards God. It would be like praying the Holy Rosary while my mind was actually thinking more about what I would prepare for dinner.

As someone else wrote on this thread, watching the Mass on TV is a devotion so it’s accorded the same flexibility as other devotions in the manner how we participate in them.
 
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It would be like praying the Holy Rosary while my mind was actually thinking more about what I would prepare for dinner.
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wait, there’s no decade for “chopping the tomatoes”, or “basting the chicken”?

:crazy_face: :roll_eyes:

OK, tongue in cheek, but there would be worse devotions than a prayer target at accompanying life activities such as preparing meals.
 
Often when I pray, I am cleaning or cooking. There is no disrespect to God. In fact, I feel that He is with me during that time.

Kneel, don’t kneel, clean, don’t clean.

It is a private devotion and therefore, you make the rules.
 
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