Standing after Communion

[MrS]

Elzee:

Your new pastor sounds like a gem and I hope you will all be very blessed in your parish. Be sure to tell him periodically how much you appreciate him…maybe even via a letter to the Bishop on occasion. Maybe a seed will be planted… .

excellant reminder… thank you:thumbsup:

and I will encourage others to do the same to counter the letters we KNOW the bishop is getting from the liberal laity that has been running the parish.

 

[grotto]

Be not afraid - kneel when you “need” to!

 

[Brendan]

Cardinal George of Chicago sent a dubium to the Vatican to clarify this issue

Dubium:
In many places, the faithful are accustomed to kneeling or sitting in personal prayer upon returning to their places after having individually received Holy Communion during Mass. Is it the intention of the Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia, to forbid this practice?

Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the CDW, responded to the question on June 5, 2003 (Prot. N. 855/03/L):

Responsum: *Negative, et ad mensum * [No, for this reason]. The mens [reasoning] is that the prescription of the Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani, no. 43, is intended, on the one hand, to ensure within broad limits a certain uniformity of posture within the congregation for the various parts of the celebration of Holy Mass, and on the other, to not regulate posture rigidly in such a way that those who wish to kneel or sit would no longer be free.

The US Bishop’s Commision on Liturgy then issued the following statement

“In the implementation of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, therefore, posture should not be regulated so rigidly as to forbid individual communicants from kneeling or sitting when returning from having received Holy Communion”

(Newsletter p. 26. .)