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2ndGen
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Why aren’t Protestants allowed to make the sign of the cross when it’s been a Christian practice for 2,000 years?
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I was informed otherwise (well, it was in RCIA). If you’re asking ‘why’ they don’t, you can be assured it’s partly because it’s a Catholic thing.
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Fragile
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I believe Anglicans do, also as Fr. Corapi poited out, some Protestants pray the Rosary in secret! 
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Righteousone
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And, why don’t they kneel???
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. They do not believe that Christ is in the Eucharist, so they feel they have no need to kneel.-Mark
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Righteousone
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My God, if Christ is before me, I am dropping to my knees. As in the Eucharist where He is present, I kneel. How can you not kneel in front of Christ??
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2ndGen
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You know R1?
I’ve been told by several Protestants, some that were former Catholics that they just couldn’t take the kneeling and sitting and standing up so much for an hour, that it was too much work.
So I ask them how long was Jesus’ passion?
And the funny thing is that they leave our Church because of the “physical” demands upon them, but go to a 3 hour service where they jump up and down and scream and yell and dance?
That never made sense to me.
They should’ve just been honest and said that they just wanted to worship differently, but to say that they couldn’t take the kneeling and the physical work that it took to go to Mass, but could spend 3 hours jumping up and down is ludicrous.
But anyway, I’m sure one will have an answer as to why they aren’t allowed to make the sign of the cross.
I’ve been told by several Protestants, some that were former Catholics that they just couldn’t take the kneeling and sitting and standing up so much for an hour, that it was too much work.
So I ask them how long was Jesus’ passion?
And the funny thing is that they leave our Church because of the “physical” demands upon them, but go to a 3 hour service where they jump up and down and scream and yell and dance?
That never made sense to me.
They should’ve just been honest and said that they just wanted to worship differently, but to say that they couldn’t take the kneeling and the physical work that it took to go to Mass, but could spend 3 hours jumping up and down is ludicrous.
But anyway, I’m sure one will have an answer as to why they aren’t allowed to make the sign of the cross.
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2ndGen
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Christ knelt down to The Apostles.Simple
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And don’t they kneel down in front of a dresser or over their beds when they pray at home?
Don’t they kneel down at altar calls or when a pastor is laying hands on them?
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mercygate
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Many do. Usually not in collective “worship” though. I have seen “altar calls” (without an altar, of course), where those coming forward kneel at a railing to “accept Christ.” Many Protestants kneel in prayer in private.
Episcopalians of the up-church stripe genuflect like mad in front of a tabernacle, bow profoundly before the altar and during the Incarnatus of the Creed, and make the sign of the cross. They look “more Catholic” than we do.
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Righteousone
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Makes perfect sense to me, and that is why I love my faith, because it isn’t easy. Just as Jesus said “It isn’t easy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven”. That is why there are so many sects, because they are easy. People don’t want to work for their salvation.
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There was this great scene in “X”, the story of Malcolm X’s conversion to Isam while in prison.
He said that he had no problem bowing down to sin or to pick a lock to steal, but when it came to bowing down befrore God, it was the most difficult thing he had to do because that took pure blind faith.
I was so moved by this because I too had a moment like that that I bowed down in my living room and gave my life to God.
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mercygate
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When I was coming into the Church from the High Anglican world, my next-door-neighbor bumped into me coming out of the 8:30 Mass, when he was coming in for the 10:00, and said, “Mercy! How nice to see you! Are you visiting?” And when I replied, “No, Jim. This time, I’m staying.” His response was, "So you’re FINALLY coming out of the CLOSET!
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Righteousone
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2ndGen,
I am so happy for you! You are in a state of Grace and you truly have a gift of knowledge in your Catholic faith!:extrahappy: :bowdown2:
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2ndGen
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:blushing:
I am humbled.
:bowdown:
No matter how far I’ve come, always feel that I have a long way to go and the closer I grow to God, the longer my road grows because the more my errors are made known to me.
What before was nothing to me is now a great sin and the smallest sins (those invisible sins of ego, pride, wrath, etc…) have become magnified into the greatest sins.
When I was of the world, what I did that didn’t seem to hurt anybody was truly the stepping stone sins that led me to the bigger sins that really did hurt others and all of them offended God.
But hey…I’m happy to “just” be on the path.
I’m trying to appreciate every step.
And thank you.
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Many do.
Assemblies of God Churches will have an area for kneeling and praying at the front right in front of the platform. They call this the “altar” area, and people kneel there to pray.
At other non-Catholic churches they kneel to pray, many times as part of the serivce. They will kneel on the floor and turn around to use the pew seat as the place to rest their hands/elbows.
Kneeling beside the bed to pray at night is taught to scores of Christians from the time they are little children.
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2ndGen
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AOG! Wow. That’s big time.
As for the turning around thing, I’ve heard they do that so’s not to formally recognize anything to face to worship.
However, they face the front to hear The Word?
If there had been an altar there, then they would’ve been facing their “rears” toward the altar.
That’s what happens when you remove things from worship.
In attempting to bring about Christian minimalism and in their attempts to grow closer to God by eliminating steps that God implimented in Scripture, they then have to invent “counter-rituals” to do the opposite of the ritual they are trying to eliminate.
Therefore, their “turning their backs” to pray becomes their “practice” or ritual and their tradition.
I don’t understand why they just don’t follow The Holy Bible.
No where in The Holy Bible does it say to turn your backs toward the altar…but without an altar, there is no church so they are’nt really wrong. Their altar is a podium.
I’m saddened with the substitutes for Christian practices with those of men.
They make it so much harder than it has to be.
I think Catholics have it easy. We just put ourselves on auto-pilot and allow The Holy Spirit to guide us.
But wow…the AOG’s kneeling? That’s a first for me. That’s a huge chunk of Protestants there isn’t it?
Something like 30-50 million?
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GKC
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I’m not an Episcopalian, myself. Nor a protestant.
But thanks for the thought.
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posterus traditus Anglicanus, Anglicanus Catholicus.
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GKC
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True of Anglicans, generally. In my parish, maybe one might bow at the *Incarnatus *, many genuflect. Same for when the processional crucifix passes.
At the Holy Name, bowing is the rule.
And yes, when approaching the Tabernacle, to be sure.
GKC
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