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.