When do you sit after Communion?

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I have a rather “simple” question. In our Parish, everyone remains standing during Communion (this was set by our Archbishop) until everyone has received Communion. HOWEVER, when Communion is over, and the Blessed Sacrament has not yet been returned to the Tabernacle, our priest motions for everyone to sit. Our family has chosen NOT to do this (in fact after we receive Communion we kneel in private thanksgiving) until the Blessed Sacrament is safely returned to the Tabernacle and the doors are locked. We are the only ones who do this.

What is the correct format. I find it rather unsettling to see people talking, while the Blessed Sacrament is still in the Sanctuary.

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When the priest sits down is how we’ve done as long as I can remember.
 
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Halami:
I have a rather “simple” question. In our Parish, everyone remains standing during Communion (this was set by our Archbishop) until everyone has received Communion. HOWEVER, when Communion is over, and the Blessed Sacrament has not yet been returned to the Tabernacle, our priest motions for everyone to sit. Our family has chosen NOT to do this (in fact after we receive Communion we kneel in private thanksgiving) until the Blessed Sacrament is safely returned to the Tabernacle and the doors are locked. We are the only ones who do this.

What is the correct format. I find it rather unsettling to see people talking, while the Blessed Sacrament is still in the Sanctuary.

Thank you
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You should not sit until after you have returned to your pew!

After returning to your pew from receiving it is totally up to you if you wish to stand, sit or kneel. The directive from Rome and the USCCB is that your posture is not to be determined by anyone except you. Your Deacon, Priest or even Bishop is not to specify your posture at this time. I kneel after returning to my pew until after the Tabernacle is closed and the Precious Blood is removed or consumed.
 
At our parish, about 20% sit when they return to the pew, about 40% sit when the priest sits (if he sits before the Tabernacle doors are closed), the rest sit after the Sacred Hosts are reserved in the Tabernacle and the Tabernacle doors are closed.

Our family kneels when we return to our pew and remain kneeling until the Sacred Hosts are reserved.
 
When the guitarist finishes his solo, the liturgical dancers finish their movement… who knows!!! Actually, if you want to kneel and pray, who cares when your neighbour sits? I stood there for about 5 minutes because some guy at the end of my pew was in deep prayer and didn’t notice me waiting to get back in the pew, I didn’t bother him, didn’t feel the need, would have held up traffic if I would have went around, so I stood there silently, minding my own business until he moved back so I could get in the pew… He was praying, I wasn’t going to bother him, I was content praying standing there while he was kneeling there praying, nobody noticed, nobody should care, we were praying and really, it didn’t interrupt the ongoing communion, so who were we hurting?
 
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You should not sit until after you have returned to your pew!

After returning to your pew from receiving it is totally up to you if you wish to stand, sit or kneel. The directive from Rome and the USCCB is that your posture is not to be determined by anyone except you. Your Deacon, Priest or even Bishop is not to specify your posture at this time. I kneel after returning to my pew until after the Tabernacle is closed and the Precious Blood is removed or consumed.
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Br. Rich, you are too funny! :rotfl: What a visual!!

I thought that if the local ordinary determined a certain posture that in obedience one was to accept the order. That’s why the GIRM was published - to promote unity. Thank God that isn’t an issue in our parish.

Actually nobody in our parish sits until the final prayer, unless the priest instructs us otherwise. I love the reverence. It seems when people kneel, they don’t chatter.
 
Br. Rich SFO:
You should not sit until after you have returned to your pew!

After returning to your pew from receiving it is totally up to you if you wish to stand, sit or kneel. The directive from Rome and the USCCB is that your posture is not to be determined by anyone except you. Your Deacon, Priest or even Bishop is not to specify your posture at this time. I kneel after returning to my pew until after the Tabernacle is closed and the Precious Blood is removed or consumed.
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The Precious Blood is to be consumed, or in very special cases reposed in a special vessel inside of the tabernacle for Holy Communion directly following Mass for people with very specific needs.

Anything else is a harsh liturgical abuse.
 
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Br. Rich, you are too funny! :rotfl: What a visual!!

I thought that if the local ordinary determined a certain posture that in obedience one was to accept the order. That’s why the GIRM was published - to promote unity. Thank God that isn’t an issue in our parish.

Actually nobody in our parish sits until the final prayer, unless the priest instructs us otherwise. I love the reverence. It seems when people kneel, they don’t chatter.
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The local bishop can only determine the posture between the Sanctus and the beginning of Holy Communion.

Many tried to apply this authority to past this point and they cannot…
 
Detroit Sue:
Br. Rich, you are too funny! :rotfl: What a visual!!

I thought that if the local ordinary determined a certain posture that in obedience one was to accept the order. That’s why the GIRM was published - to promote unity. Thank God that isn’t an issue in our parish.

Actually nobody in our parish sits until the final prayer, unless the priest instructs us otherwise. I love the reverence. It seems when people kneel, they don’t chatter.
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That is correct. However it has been specifically and clearly stated that no Pastor or Bishop is to specify any posture for the specific time after returning to your seat from receiving Holy Communion.
 
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Franciscum:
The Precious Blood is to be consumed, or in very special cases reposed in a special vessel inside of the tabernacle for Holy Communion directly following Mass for people with very specific needs.

Anything else is a harsh liturgical abuse.
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A parish that I attend the Chalices are removed from the altar to an area behind a wall where a deacon or other minister consumes the remsining Precious Blood.
 
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