Sacrilege Regarding the Eucharist

[martin]

(are you ready for me to leave yet Martin?   angel yellow)

Of course not Baily.  I know on certain things we differ, you see the grey area and I (I've been told) am too black and white. 

I wouldn't say that everyone in the whole world should kneel. The elderly or infirm would of course have a legitimate reason not too but can you give me one good reason to excuse the rest of us? 

[Bailey2]

Different cultural expressions of respect (bowing, touching the hand to the lips, head, and heart, crossing ones self "backwards" three times, etc).


As for Queens, Kings, and Popes........ I might settle for a bow....... head up of course   

[martin]

Hmmm.. I'm thinking about this...  .... But can't you do all those things while kneeling? 

[Bailey2]

 

if you wish! 

[martin]

 

Or even better.. We could try and find out what the Lord would wish. 

[Bailey2]

Hey Martin, the next time He appears to you and tells you what He wishes, let me know. 

My understanding of His Wish is that we exercise utmost charity in all things......... why would you tell a child their way of praying is wrong if that is the only way they understand how to pray for now?  How would they feel?  Would they feel motivated to progress or just give up in disgust or anger or just plain discouragement?   Just a thought,  ooops, the pasta is overflowing!

Actually, I thought about this because there was a reading from I Corinthians today.  Just popped in....... as we joked here.  Hope you took it with a smile as I sent it with a grin.
Nite.

[Brigid]

Different cultural expressions of respect (bowing, touching the hand to the lips, head, and heart, crossing ones self "backwards" three times, etc).

That one is too complicated for me - worse than patting your head and rubbing your tummy.

I heard a story on Catholic radio about a Lutheran woman saying to her Catholic husband, "If you really believed that the Eucharist was the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus, you would crawl up the aisle on your knees". In another story there a Mexican man did just that.

[Bailey2]

Different cultural expressions of respect (bowing, touching the hand to the lips, head, and heart, crossing ones self "backwards" three times, etc).

That one is too complicated for me - worse than patting your head and rubbing your tummy.

I heard a story on Catholic radio about a Lutheran woman saying to her Catholic husband, "If you really believed that the Eucharist was the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus, you would crawl up the aisle on your knees". In another story there a Mexican man did just that.

The Byzantine way of crossing ones self is forehead, heart, right to left (rather than left to right).  That's what I mean by backwards.  Some of them cross themselves three times (backwards)  as an expression of the core Catholic belief in the Trinity.  They stand for communion (even as a kid I stood) but receive in under both species via a long spoon that sort of flips the wine soaked cube of bread into the mouth. 

In Mexico, there is a shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe where the pilgrims process on their knees a long way on the cement to the actual shrine.  Most are bleeding when they get there.