Stand or Kneel?

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I kneel to pray my personal prayers for receiving the body of Christ and his blood.
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I kneel and pray.:gopray2:
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I sit, but I broke my knee a couple of months ago and I can’t kneel. I knelt prior to the break and I hope to kneel again soon. 👍
 
I kneel because I do it out of revereance. I kneel until the blessed sacrament is placed back into the tabernacle. I think the more proper thing to do is to kneel. Some poeple stand because in the early days of the church people thought kneeling was for penance and for forgivness. But now people are looking at kneeling as a sign of reverence. Thats the way I look at it also. I kneel not only for penance and for forgiveness, but also for a sign of reverence.
 
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I sit, but I broke my knee a couple of months ago and I can’t kneel. I knelt prior to the break and I hope to kneel again soon. 👍
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OUCH!!! Sorry to hear about your injury. I too have bad knees and need to get my ACL repaired. I kneel but it is hard, so on some days I stand it all depends how my knee fells.

A :gopray: for your healing.
 
I, too, stand because I am in the choir. If I am not at my home parish, I kneel except when I was in France because there was no room. I think sitting (without good reason) is just too casual.
 
I kneel or sit, depending on how I feel. I would prefer to stand, I still believe standing with hands lifted up to God is the highest posture for prayer, but our Bishop prefers us to kneel or sit and that is what I do.

I am curious to know what part of the country folks still stand during the Easter Season? For a very long time, in So. California we were asked to kneel during Lent and always stand during Easter Season. I haven’t heard this for quite sometime.
 
Interesting question. In my church, we always knelt, until our Pastor, a year or so ago, called for us to stand because the Bishop said that we should do this “to express community with other Christian churches” or something like that (sorry that I can’t remember with more clarity right now). And he said that for a week or two, and then no more was ever said. And probably a lot of the people in church, on any given day, never heard that this is the new “rule”, or the reason for it. So now it is a real mess. About 50% of the congregation kneels, and the other 50% stands. And no matter what you do, you feel like an idiot because you look around and see about half of the rest of the people doing something different. I tend to kneel more often, because that is what I was always used to, and forget to do it differently, and because for whatever reason, it just feels more “right”. But I would be happy with either way, as long as there was consistancy. We do this (stand) for something like unity among Christians, but then what happens to unity in this one Mass, in this one Parish, when half of us kneel and half of us stand, and we all feel like we are doing something stupid?
 
The norm where I live is to sit. A few might kneel but no-one ever stands.
 
My family and I kneel. In some of the nearby parishes the faithful have been instructed to stand until the reposition of the Blessed Sacrament. All the while we are kneeling.

It seems so silly because the faithful stand until Our Lord is reposed, then they sit when the priest sits, and then five seconds later they stand back up when the priest begins the Concluding Rite.
 
When I was in Italy I visited some of the old cathedrals. The congregation didn’t kneel. There was nothing to kneel on (except the stone floor). There weren’t even pews - just folding chairs.

I still knelt. Phil 2:10 At the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth.

BTW, I just realized Phil 2:10 is another “proof text” against the JW’s. Paul is quoting Isaiah 45:22-23: Turn to me and be safe, all you ends of the earth, for I am God; there is no other! By myself I swear, uttering my just decree and my unalterable word: To me every knee shall bend
 
I kneel until the priest sits down (and he doesn’t sit usually until the Eucharist is placed back into the Tabernacle. 🙂
 
I kneel. I remain kneeling for a respectable time after the Host and Blood have been consumed. I usually look around to see how long others remain kneeling. Some kneel only a few seconds after they return to their pew, but I remain kneeling longer as I am saying personal prayers.
 
I kneel to give thanks to the Lord for receiving His Body.:bowdown: :bowdown2:
 
I was taught to knell and to sit down after the celebrant has sat down. Does that soud like a well trained dog - thank God I love dogs.
 
I’m from an AU parish, so we all kneel, and kneel, and kneel. We do lots of that. Had to get used to it when I first started attending it.
We kneel through most of the mass, except we sit during the readings but standing during the reading of the Gospel, and singing the offeratory, the entrance and recessional.
 
Something to think about: In “Living The Eucharist” by Fr. Shannon Collins, C.P.M. he mentions that the early desert fathers had a vision of the devil…in it he was dark, ugly, thin and had no knees…no knees upon which to kneel…he refused to bend low before God his creator…so says our Pope in his book “Spirit of the Liturgy”!

This wonderful DVD is available free from Catholic Resource Center (www.CatholicRC.org)

Pax et Bonum!
 
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