Kneeling to recieve Communion

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JimR-OCDS said:
In my little parish church, if a person were to kneel, it would cause a problem for the prisoners trying to avoid their legs. Also, the priest has to stoop down to reach the person
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That’s strange. Are they for some reason sitting or lying down on their backs to receive? Why does the priest need to stoop down to place a host in the mouth of a person who’s kneeling? Is your priest 9 feet tall? 🙂

I knelt to receive yesterday and it caused no issues whatsoever, for anyone.
Maybe there was someone behind me bothered at the idea of someone kneeling to receive their Lord. But that person might want to focus more on the task in front of them than the postures of everyone around them as they approach Almighty God to receive him.
 
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My former pastor was 6ft 7inches tall and had a back back

Sorry if you find my parish not to fit your ideology.

Jim
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
Then provide the right place from the USCCB site

Jim
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GIRM 160
The Priest then takes the paten or ciborium and approaches the communicants, who usually come up in procession.

It is not permitted for the faithful to take the consecrated Bread or the sacred chalice by themselves and, still less, to hand them on from one to another among themselves. The norm established for the Dioceses of the United States of America is that Holy Communion is to be received standing, unless an individual member of the faithful wishes to receive Communion while kneeling (Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum, March 25, 2004, no. 91).
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All that means is that the person can not be refused to receive while kneeling

However, they should be educated as to the norm outlined by the USCCB and the Bishop of that diocese

Jim
 
No that was specifically removed from the GIRM after Redemptionis Sacramentum.
 
I don’t recall that it was ever in the GIRM as he norm for receiving is set by the carious conferences of Bishops

Jim
 
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I quoted the two different GIRMs in post 95 or 96. The Vatican website has the old version of the GIRM from shortly after the release of the 2002 Missal. The USCCB website has the amended version from sometime after 2004 but prior to the implementation of the English Missal in 2011.
 
CilladeRoma said:
I think it is terribly sad that a priest can choose not to do the sign of peace.

I would not go back to a parish that did that.
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Um, I remember going to Masses before they instituted the Sign of Peace. The world didn’t end because parishioners didn’t all get to kiss their spouses and socialize with their friends in the middle of Mass.
I was at a Mass on Sunday where the priest left it out. He said the Peace be with you and we said And also with you and moved on, and it was fine, really.

The total stranger in the pew in front of me who I never saw before and won’t again is not the person I need to make peace with before I receive Jesus, anyway.
 
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