Priest Kneeling during the readings

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I recently went to a parish where the priest knelt during the readings. After talking with a parishoner about he said that the people’s revernce towards the Liturgy of the Word increased substantially after the priest came to the parish and started doing this. My questions are…How common is this practice? And where did it come from?

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Hmm, I’ve never seen this before. The only time I can recall a priest kneeling during the first part of Mass is during the Penitential Rite or Kyrie Eleison.
 
Out of curiosity, is your priest Middle-Eastern? I ask because I’ve attended a few Antiochian Orthodox churches where the congregation knelt during the Gospel, and have been told it is the custom in some part of the Middle East.
 
He looked to be American, and it was the Roman Catholic Rite for clarification.
 
True, but there are a sizeable number of Latin rite Catholics in the ME, and I’ve met Arabs who were whiter than I am (and I’m practically translucent).
 
There are several orders where it is common for them to kneel, rather than sit, at all of the non-Gospel readings. I don’t anything about the priest in question, but it’s possible he is either the member of such an order or has been influenced by one of them.
 
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