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In this diocese I have determined that the faithful will stand from the Great Amen until after receiving Holy Communion. This posture reflects our humble gratitude for the great things God has done in creating and redeeming us. We also recognize the eschatological significance of standing as we look forward to the day when Christ will come again and pray that Christ may find us worthy to stand before Him. After the reception of communion, each participant is free to kneel or sit, however they choose.

Not in my Arch-Diocese.

We had some churches in the Arch-D that were built with out kneelers. Your options, stand or sit, kneeling is old-school. Yes, those post-VII bookstores. I know that in some of these parishes kneelers are being put in much to the chagrin of the Cafeteria Catholics who attend.

I have seen people kneel on the hard floor. And even in some of the ultra-modern SpaceShip parishes a few communicants will kneel at Communion. Usually one or two. It's no big deal. I didn't notice the priest or Eucharistic minister not figuring out how to give Communion in this situation.

It is certainly NOT a mortal sin (perhaps one of the most ridiculous and outrageous modernist statements of recent times).

Now, people who believe that they have to kneel at Holy Communion would be better off attending the TLM.

There is yet another aspect to this which makes the modernist position here even more absurd. Progressive liberal modernists are great at accomodating their liberal friends who want to dissent on the politics of abortion. And we hear all sorts of pieties about "liberty of conscience" and how Vatican II was all about involving the laity and accomodating their opinions and conscience. Why not "liberty of conscience" on kneeling?

Why does the modernist minimalist bishop here fail to invoke the liberal hosannas and pieties on behalf of the sacred liberty of conscience of the laity? Inquiring minds would like to know... It seems a strange omission, considering no doubt that liberal Catholics who support abortion are receiving Holy Communion while standing at minimalist liturgies in his diocese. And so, if he is willing to accomodate them in their grave liberties of conscience on matters of human life, he ought to be able to accomodate those who exercise conscience merely on one of the musical chairs issues of liturgical discipline.