Sign of the Cross at Communion

[muffinmojo]

genuflection in question here is genuflection when entering pews or before receiving communion? priests at the parish have discouraged genuflection/kneeling before communion and have encouraged bowing your heads right up till you reach the priest. i guess this is just a practical move as the lines are really long some time?

You are always supposed to genuflect before turning your back to the Blessed Sacrament or entering a pew. If it is in a procession, I think it’s something like 16 or 20 paces before and the same after it passes you you are supposed to kneel.

They may discourage kneeling for Holy Communion, but they are not allowed to deny you the Sacrament if you kneel. Some people at EWTN Masses genuflect and then stand and receive on the tongue, which seems reasonable.

 

[PKinsale]

Why are some so quick to discourage private acts of reverence but to allow public signs of irreverence?

 

[Ghoti]

Over at Fisheaters.com they say:

When you receive the Host, don’t chew on it like it’s a piece of steak; let it soften in your mouth, then swallow. One does not respond “Amen” or with any gesture but the Sign of the Cross after receiving the Host, unlike in the Novus Ordo.​

I thought at first “Amen” was always said, and that tthe Sign of the Cross was the NO addition. Alto’ when I think back to my first Communion, we were taught to say “Amen”, but not make the SoC – and in movies (my only exposure to TLM) I see people receive the Sacrament at the altar rails silently and make the SoC before standing and moving away. Is this right? IOW, is this “suppression” of the SoC an “innovation” of the NO? (Note the “sacre quotes”, I’m not trying to bandy about epithets or euphemisms, so I’m just using the closest terms I can think of and doing the ""s)

 

[JCismywingman]

You are always supposed to genuflect before turning your back to the Blessed Sacrament or entering a pew. If it is in a procession, I think it’s something like 16 or 20 paces before and the same after it passes you you are supposed to kneel.

They may discourage kneeling for Holy Communion, but they are not allowed to deny you the Sacrament if you kneel. Some people at EWTN Masses genuflect and then stand and receive on the tongue, which seems reasonable.

I recently started attending a different church in my area, and realized that people who wanted to genuflect/kneel before receiving communion or receive while kneeling would wait till the end of the line before receiving communion.

With regards to entering a pew, would u still genuflect if you were outside in a make shift row of chairs and the alter/Blessed Sacrement is only projected on a screen?

Guess that’s one way if they wanna observe kneeling/genuflecting

 

[Cranch]

Those who cross themselves at that point are most likely familiar with the Traditional Latin Mass. During the prayers at the foot of the altar, when the priest says the prayer “Indulgentiam, absolutionem, et remissionem peccatorum nostrorum, tribuat nobis omnipotens et misericors Dominus,” both priest and faithful cross themselves. It is translated as “May the almighty and merciful Lord grant us pardon, absolution, and remission of our sins.” The priest repeats this to the faithful before Communion, after the third confiteor.

I wanted to point out that the (more commonly called) Second Confiteor, although still said in many TLMs before communion, was officially suppressed in the 1962 missal. At the TLM I attend, it is not said and so the Indulgentiam is not repeated. Regarding this issue, there is interesting discussion of the discrepancy between rubrics and practice in some TLMs here and here.

 

[ForMary]

I also make the sign of the cross after receiving the body and blood of Christ. I was also taught to make the sign of the cross when the priest holds up the sacrament during the consecration. Any one else do or have seen this?

George

I do this also and when the priest/deacon genuflects after putting the consecrated hosts in the tabernacle after communion.

 

[PKinsale]

Up until the new Mass, the recipient did not say the “Amen,” but the server holding the paten said it. I actually find this to be one of the changes I like.

 

[Ramalama]

I’ve always crossed myself after receiving the Host. I don’t know how much of an authority I am though – I’ve only been a Catholic for two weeks!

 

[Ghoti]

I’ve always crossed myself after receiving the Host. I don’t know how much of an authority I am though – I’ve only been a Catholic for two weeks!

Don’t worry about it. Peter was only a Catholic for three years and he was made Pope.

 

[trobinson017]

I’ve always crossed myself after receiving the Host. I don’t know how much of an authority I am though – I’ve only been a Catholic for two weeks!

WELCOME HOME, RAMALAMA!!!

trob

 

[graceandglory]

I Cross myself I was taught to cross myself after receiving. I’m 42

I’m 42, and I was not taught to cross myself after receiving.

IMHO, it seems to break up the prayer. I made the sign of the cross at the beginning of Mass, and I will make it again at the end of the Mass. Everything in between is prayer.

Which brings to mind another question, (I hesitate starting a new thread, if you want me to, boot me )

Is there another place in the Mass (I think in the beginning) where one is to make the sign of the cross? I notice some people crossing themselves at another point, but can’t remember where.

 

[graceandglory]

“May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life”

At this spot early in mass, I see some people cross themselves, and others don’t. Some reason why or why not?

thanks, Richie

THAT’S IT!!!

 

[Miles_Mariae]

Our Dominican priest taught us to make the Sign right after receiving, so that’s what I do.