[Desdemona]

The practice here in Albany is to kneel beginning after the Sanctus, until the doors of the Tabernacle have been closed, locked and the priest sits down.

Increasingly, I am seeing people not sit back after the priest sits and some not even rise immediately after he rises to give the final blessing. Then, there are several who kneel again after the recessional in prayer while the rest of the congregation starts talking.

It's getting interesting.

[NYer]

Then, there are several who kneel again after the recessional in prayer while the rest of the congregation starts talking.

This is true in my parish as well. Oftentimes, I will go to the separate chapel for prayer after mass. Unlike the church with its oversized Risen Christ behind the altar, the chapel has a beautiful crucifix suspended over the altar. There is also a Tabernacle and the setting is much more condusive to quiet contemplation and reflection.

[Polycarp]

It's getting interesting.

"May You Live in Interesting Times"

In a speech in Cape Town, South Africa, on June 7, 1966, Robert F. Kennedy said, "There is a Chinese curse which says, "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times..." Journalists picked up the phrase and it has become a commonplace.

However, the popularity of this "Chinese curse" puzzles Chinese scholars, who have only heard it from Americans. If it is of Chinese origin, it has somehow escaped the literature, although it may be a paraphrase of a liberal translation from a Chinese source, and therefore unrecognizable when translated back to Chinese. It might be related to the Chinese proverb, "It's better to be a dog in a peaceful time that be a man in a chaotic period."

Stephen DeLong, who has been researching this quotation for several years and details his quest on his own website, has traced the quotation back to a 1950 science fiction story: "U-Turn" by Duncan H. Munro, a pseudonym for Eric Frank Russell.