Posted on 06/06/2012 9:20:33 AM PDT by Salvation
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Bending of the knee as an act of reverence. Customary when passing before the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle, entering the pew for divine worship, and during certain ceremonies to the Cross. A double genuflection of both knees simultaneously was commonly made before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in a monstrance. The new directive since the Second Vatican Council specifies: "One knee is bent before the Blessed Sacrament, whether reserved in the tabernacle or exposed for public adoration" (Eucharistiae Sacramentum, 1973, number 84). Genuflections are also made to the Pope, to a cardinal, and to a bishop in his own diocese.
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This actually be the Wisconsin Democrat word for the day. As in bend down and kiss it, Democrats
I still genuflect even though I can’t get all the way down like I used to. And sometimes I have to hold on to the pew to get back up again. But I will genuflect as long as my knees allow me to. (I’m 64). My two granddaughters, who attend public schools but did go to Catechism classes, do not genuflect. My daughter, their mother, does not attend Mass at all, so they attend with me when they’re home with their mother (Dad isn’t Catholic). I always call them back to genuflect and they look at me like I have two heads.
I notice the norm on the altar now is head bowing. And some of the head bows leave much to be desired. No resemblance to anything reverent. I still see some of the older priests genuflect and some newer, more devout priests do so as well. But when the ushers, many of them young, go up to the front of the Church before taking up the collections and they give a half-hearted head bow, I cringe.
I will genuflect as long as my knees allow me to.
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Same here. (I’m 65.)
you’ll have to do extras when you’re up to snuff.
LOL!
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