Question on kneeling after the priest passes down the isle after completion of the mass

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I wouldn’t consider our church traditional but we do have a few couples who follow the discipline of veiling. After mass I notice them kneel for a minute or so after the priest has passed them. What does this mean?
 
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I have always bowed to the priest when he proceeses * out and then I kneel. But I usually kneel to give thanks for the Mass. Perhaps they are returning thanks for the Mass. It also may be a way they are showing reverence to Christ in whose person the priest stands in.

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Sounds like they are kneeling and praying in reverence before the Lord after the priest processes out of the Church, not kneeling before the priest.
 
I would guess that they are praying for a short while after Mass, and it has nothing to do with the priest. However I usually do a slight bow when Father processes in or recesses out.
 
Yes, I always kneel and pray after the priest leaves. It’s in thanksgiving for the Mass, but my mother always told me to say a St. Michael prayer for protection of the Church and a Hail, Holy Queen for the Holy Father’s intentions. Not sure if this was common in the traditional church my mom attended as a child or if it was her own personal thing she did. Anyway, that’s my reason for doing it.
 
To kneel after the Mass for your own private prayers is normal but to kneel when the Priest passes you is not. Our Priest explained it to a few people that you only kneel when He passes you if He is processing with the Blessed Sacrament.
 
Thanksgiving prayer after mass. Many people do that in our church too.
 
You’d probably have to ask them. My first thought was that it is probably like others have said, that they are kneeling in prayer after the Mass has ended and the priest has processed out. But your question has reminded me of a parish where my In-laws attended. It was in the 1970’s and possibly into the 1980’s that I noticed when we visited that parish church that whenever the priest came into church before Mass began and walked up the aisle, the people would stand until he entered the sacristy. I was impressed at the reverence that this congregation gave to their priests long after the abuses of Liturgy had so widely spread elsewhere throughout the country. In later years this local tradition ceased. Possibly because some new pastor had frown upon the practice. I don’t know. It is just too bad IMO, that this wonderful show of respect could be so misunderstood.
 
105lynne said:
Yes, I always kneel and pray after the priest leaves. It’s in thanksgiving for the Mass, but my mother always told me to say a St. Michael prayer for protection of the Church and a Hail, Holy Queen for the Holy Father’s intentions. Not sure if this was common in the traditional church my mom attended as a child or if it was her own personal thing she did. Anyway, that’s my reason for doing it.
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Yes, these prayers were traditionally prayed by the entire congregation – led by the Priest – after every Low Mass (as opposed to a Missa cantata - sung Mass or Missa solemnis - solemn High Mass) before the liturgical reform after Vatican II. Pope Leo XIII ordered three Hail Mary’s, Hail Holy Queen, and the St. Michael be prayed for the intention of solving to the Roman question (before the establishment of the sovereign Vatican City State in 1929). Blessed Pius XI then altered the intention to be for the consecration of Russia to the Blessed Virgin, though there seems to be some debate whether this intention still applies, whether it has been fulfilled, etc. At the EF Masses I attend, we still pray these after every Low Mass, and when I attend the Novus Ordo Mass, I usually pray them on my own out of habit.
 
I always kneel to pray the Leonine Prayers after Mass. No matter where I attend Mass and to give thanks to God.
 
spencer2 said:
I wouldn’t consider our church traditional but we do have a few couples who follow the discipline of veiling. After mass I notice them kneel for a minute or so after the priest has passed them. What does this mean?
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Probably just a genuflection on leaving the pew, to balance the genuflection when they entered the pew. 🤷
 
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Yes, these prayers were traditionally prayed by the entire congregation – led by the Priest – after every Low Mass (as opposed to a Missa cantata - sung Mass or Missa solemnis - solemn High Mass) before the liturgical reform after Vatican II. Pope Leo XIII ordered three Hail Mary’s, Hail Holy Queen, and the St. Michael be prayed for the intention of solving to the Roman question (before the establishment of the sovereign Vatican City State in 1929). Blessed Pius XI then altered the intention to be for the consecration of Russia to the Blessed Virgin, though there seems to be some debate whether this intention still applies, whether it has been fulfilled, etc. At the EF Masses I attend, we still pray these after every Low Mass, and when I attend the Novus Ordo Mass, I usually pray them on my own out of habit.
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Yes, every Low Mass I’ve assisted has been followed with the Leonine prayers. And like yourself, I pray them after the OF.

I was stunned one day, when after an OF weekday Mass at a local parish, a visiting priest prayed them. 🙂
 
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