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stevejosem
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I know that the updated GIRM instructs us to stand BEFORE the part of the mass where we pray “May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of His name for our good and the good of all His Church”, but it seems like most people don’t know this and they are still in the habit of waiting until after.
I used to stand up before the prayer even if others were not. But then I thought about it and I decided to go with what the others are doing so as not to create a visible disunity during the Mass. Is this wrong of me when I know what the GIRM says but I am not doing it for the sake of not standing out at Mass?
Then later, I started to notice something else. You have some who know about it but they hesitate to get up. So what happens is this awkward motion where people start to stand up half way through it like a kind of compromise between the ones who know and the ones who don’t know but who begin to get up when enough other people start to get up. I wish more priests would just tell people “please stand” just before the prayer.
There was one Chaplain Priest when I was at Fort Bragg in North Carolina who would tell people to stand. This told me that he is orthodox. I wish more priests were like that.
I used to stand up before the prayer even if others were not. But then I thought about it and I decided to go with what the others are doing so as not to create a visible disunity during the Mass. Is this wrong of me when I know what the GIRM says but I am not doing it for the sake of not standing out at Mass?
Then later, I started to notice something else. You have some who know about it but they hesitate to get up. So what happens is this awkward motion where people start to stand up half way through it like a kind of compromise between the ones who know and the ones who don’t know but who begin to get up when enough other people start to get up. I wish more priests would just tell people “please stand” just before the prayer.
There was one Chaplain Priest when I was at Fort Bragg in North Carolina who would tell people to stand. This told me that he is orthodox. I wish more priests were like that.