Posted on 12/12/2008 6:48:14 AM PST by NYer
“I bet none of the Orthodox are doing the “field goal heave”, imitating the priest’s gestures, or holding hands and holding their hands above their heads during the Our Father . . . .”
Oh, Gawd!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably just as good we don’t have intercommunion. I’d likely start gagging.
THEN we can move forward!
>>Beware the OCA and its usually self serving opinions, netmilsmom.<<
Well then I’ll go with this.
Traditionally in the Latin Catholic Church we kneel.
I’ll go with the tradition!
>>Did I mention we live in Paganville? <<
LOLOL!
That must be near where I live. Innovation Central.
“Make you a deal: we’ll send all those goofy folks to the Episcopal Church (with BXVI’s help and encouragement) in exchange for the few remaining orthodox and highly reverent Anglicans.”
If you send their priests, bishops, monks and nuns with them, I’d say that was a great start! :)
“Traditionally in the Latin Catholic Church we kneel.
I’ll go with the tradition!”
Very good. Let the Slavs be upset!
>>Very good. Let the Slavs be upset!<<
Define Slavs. Like Yugoslavs?
“Define Slavs. Like Yugoslavs?”
Serbs, Bulgarians, Russians, those types.
>>Serbs, Bulgarians, Russians, those types<<
Thanks!
Could we say this is something of a metaphor for the attitude of many to not only Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament but also His Church? A metaphor for the refusal to accept Catholic teaching and dogma?
A symbol of pride perhaps? Rebellion? Kneeling is the position of the supplicant......the humble man.
It's arrogance! That attitude is quite pervasive in today's society. And, as you well noted, a lack of humility.
If it isn’t whether you stand or kneel, then you would not want to create a big stink about being asked to kneel, now would you?
And he is right, it is NOT about whether you stand or kneel - it is whether you will worship the Lord God Almighty in accordance with the leadership He has lovingly given to you as a loving father-figure with authority, aka your bishop.
If it isn’t about whether you stand or kneel, then why have so many parishes chosen to demonstrate defiance by arbitrarily deciding to stand in defiance of long-held practice and norm that everyone was happily following?
I was in a parish where we were forced to stand instead of kneel. First we were scolded as being so stupid and immature that we knelt, then we were threatened that we were being disobedient and sinful by kneeling in accordance with Church law but in defiance of the local priest. Then we ignored that, the preist would scold us DURING THE CONSECRATION demanding that we stand.
And if it isn’t about whether we stand or kneel, why was my family scolded for kneeling during the consecration (in accordance with Church law but apparently in defiance of the unbekwnonst-to-us “law” of the local priest) when we went to a small daily Mass in a new town (where we lived temporarily)?
Sure. Its not about whether we stand or kneel.
I hope you did the rational thing and immediately left that parish.
My pastor (a very reverent Novus Ordo guy) recently told me that with a few years we can expect to be receiving the host on the tongue again. There are just too many abuses with receiving it in the hands.
I suggest all of us set the example and reverently receive Communion on the tongue. I know that because I started two other ladies now receive on the tongue.
I was surprised that the list did not include a genuflection.
Somehow I don't picture myself standing proudly before Christ, bragging about how good I was and how lucky Christ is to have wonderful me in His Presence. But I am a flawed person. I guess some folks have it all figured out, that they are the center of the universe and they don't need to kneel before the Almighty.
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