Should I ignore the tabernacle as I pass it in favor of bowing to the altar?

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I was told by a new priest at our parish not to genuflect to the Tabernacle, but to instead bow to the Altar when I go up to read. Our Tabernacle is pushed off to one side of the Church (same side I read from), so I usually walk up that side, genuflect to the Tabernacle, then go up to read. I would feel odd not looking toward the Tabernacle and just bowing to the Altar when I walk so close. I am just being ridiculous?

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Hi,

Continue to do as you have been doing. If you saw Jesus standing there, you would not ignore Him and then go and bow to the altar. Nowhere will you find any official Church document directing one to ignore the Presence of our Lord in the tabernacle. Sometimes we priests don’t see the forest for the trees.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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