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“This is a false conclusion,” rumbles our liturgist. I’m sorry, sir, but since I’ve had the temerity to go so far, I’ll go a step further and, at the risk of your wrath, suggest that it is really not so important “to show that the Eucharist is a communal activity.” That’s not the point. The point is what God has done, and is doing in the Mass, reconciling the world to Himself through the sacrifice of Christ. The eucharistic community is created precisely by our turning away from ourselves and toward Christ. The wonderful friendliness of our wonderful selves is really quite beside the point. And to think otherwise is, well, arrogance.

Absolutely, without question, TRUE! Bringing the Eucharist down a level is stupid, if I might be so bold. Taking kneelers out of the Church (part of the same philosophy, no doubt) is stupid, if I might be so bold.

"Every head will bow, every knee will bend." Little by little they have destroyed the Reverence that must be present when you Receive The Holy Eucharist.

I don't know if this destruction of Reverence is done for a reason or not, but it should be stopped, if it can be stopped at this point.

Another thing, whose bright idea was it to institute singing as one is Receiving the Holy Eucharist? How about a little quiet, so people can have a conversation with their Lord?

"Every head will bow, every knee will bend." Little by little they have destroyed the Reverence that must be present when you Receive The Holy Eucharist.

I don't know if this destruction of Reverence is done for a reason or not, but it should be stopped, if it can be stopped at this point

1st Council of Nicea. Canon 20

Since there are some who kneel on Sunday and during the season of Pentecost, this holy synod decrees that, so that the same observances may be maintained in every diocese, one should offer one's prayers to the Lord standing.

singing hymns to God is recommended throughtout Holy Writ. Isn't singing a hymn to God a way of conversing with God?

Is there anything to prevent you from remaining after Mass to silently comunicate with God?

How about a little quiet, so people can have a conversation with their Lord?

The Apocalypse of Saint John the Apostle

Chapter 14

Of the Lamb and of the virgins that follow him. Of the judgments that shall fall upon the wicked.

1 And I beheld: and lo a Lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.

2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters and as the voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps.

*sounds to me that God might enjoy the singing ...

Philipinas 2:10 That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth:

*So, every time you are posting something that cites Jesus; every time you pray and that prayer includes "Jesus" you genuflect (what do you do when you are already kneeling in prayer?); every time you speak the name Jesus, you genuflect?

Color me skeptical :)