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During live streamed Mass, do you receive the blessing?
Should you kneel? Stand? Sit?
What is the correct thing to do at the consecration? Anything?

I just live streamed a Mass (EF if that makes any difference) and wasn’t sure what to do.
 
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but since you’re not actually at mass there is no liturgical rubric for you to follow. It’s a private devotional practice. It would be fine to sit the whole time while watching. If you wish to kneel, if that helps you, you can do so.
 
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but since you’re not actually at mass there is no liturgical rubric for you to follow. It’s a private devotional practice. It would be fine to sit the whole time while watching. If you wish to kneel, if that helps you, you can do so.
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I think you’re right. Then again, what’s going on right now is unprecedented. But it is certainly true that we will not actually be at Mass while attending a livestream.
 
You can receive the blessing (there’s debate about it if you’re not watching live (recorded), but I personally think it’s fine either way).

You can follow the rubrics - but you don’t have to; you’re not actually there, but we need the proper interior disposition of reverence toward the Mass. That can be achieved internally without external actions.

Some are uncomfortable showing signs of adoration via a digital screen; just remember who it is you’re viewing and do what’s comfortable for you. (My opinion.)

Form of the Mass is irrelevant.
 
No. You are not “participating” that is something we have to understand as we do this. You are not “at” Mass.
 
Have you always done this for televised Masses like at WYD etc?

What about the delay in time of a streamed or broadcasted event?
 
You are not technically participating in the Mass, so there are no positions of prayer required.

You are, instead, participating in a private devotion to the mass, for which any respectful position would be appropriate.
 
There is no real delay in live stream these days , a few seconds. the blessing is still a real blessing. We can watch the Pope give a blessing in a televised live stream Mass and there can also be an Indulgence attached. .
Our Archbishop and a few other Clergy concelebrated Mass with some Altar boys and live streamed Mass from the State Cathedral this Sunday. The camera and sound started off badly, ancient gorgeous Cathedral with good acoustics,. we the viewers were able to ask (through the live stream fb link) the camera to move close and for them to adjust sound. They did so, and the Mass continued. We did spiritual communion, the Archbishop led us in how to do that, during communion time, We then prayed to St Joseph who we are asked to pray to through this pandemic for protection of home and job and church. We were then giving the blessing dismissal . The Homily was longer and was about masses in history that were done in hiding or where the public could not attend.
We even had pipe organ and sung responses with a cantor.

Next Sunday the live stream should be improved. We also sent likes and loves during public responses or even typed amen and the peace be with you as responses and to each other. It became interactive that way.

We got a real blessing in real time, engaged in spiritual communion, and i did kneel where we usually do. I advise catching a good live stream weekly if not daily.
St Joseph is the protector of families , jobs and the Church.

I think the secret of these live stream Masses is for them to be interactive, and for the celebrating clergy to lead the viewers in Spiritual Communion. If a person can dtill get the blessing and even an indulgence at a Papal Mass by order Holy Father, ( conditions involved,) there is something about a live stream or live televised mass that goes beyond private devotion .
 
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I like to act as if I am at Mass when I watch EWTN’s Sunday Mass (8AM or Noon) or weekdays at 8AM, Noon, or 7PM. We’re blessed to have great Catholic television, especially during travel bans.
 
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This is a good question, one that I was grappling with yesterday as well. I contemplated standing and kneeling at the appropriate times. In the end, it seemed more appropriate just to hold my children tight as we sat on the couch and prayed with our priests at the appropriate times.

If there is a directive from someone in authority about the matter, I would love to read about it.
 
I don’t think there’s any official rule because CCC was written in a time when we never could have seen this coming.

Our priest advised us to go through the rubric just to keep things reverent. Before the online Mass, he also reminded us to set aside any phones, cups of coffee, or other distractions.
 
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Any one else been watching Word on Fire’s Masses? They are very high quality.
 
I’ve seen one. I prefer to watch live (and Bishop Barron is my regional bishop) but 5:30 in the morning is earlier than I can manage on most days.
 
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