Stand up, sit down, kneel down, stand up........turn around shake hands, kneel down again, stand up......it just gets to me.
It's not so much all the words which I find unsettling as the continual need to change body posture. I find that far more disturbing to contemplative prayer.
One time at a daily Novus Ordo Mass I decided that I'd had enough and resolved to kneel all the way from the Sanctus to Holy Communion. There were few people in the Church and as I was way out the back, I figured it was no big deal. However, some woman saw me and at the "sign of peace" she walked halfway across the Church, put her hand on my arm and with a very sad expression on her face said "you obviously have some great sorrows or difficulties in your life!".
God bless her for her charity but apparently kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament now makes some people think you're a suicidal maniac.
LOL! And I mean that literally!
Oh, BTW, you left out bowing! ;-)
Man, she is lucky she didn’t try that with me. Whatever I decided to do on the spur of the moment, it wouldn’t have been pretty! The nicest thing I can think of is giving her a really sad look right back and saying, “Well, I think we all need to make reparation for the disrespect shown to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament!” But “Have you lost your cotton-pickin’ mind!?!?” right in the middle of church might have been what popped out . . . .
...I agree with a lot of what you wrote, but for a lot of parishioners, that would be a long time to kneel, and a lot of very sore knees...