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Offline Dolores

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Correct Genuflection by Priest
« on: April 06, 2025, 09:45:15 PM »
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    • I want to preface this question by stating that it is likely a hyper-technicality, and I am not suggesting any priest is disrespecting the Eucharist and our Lord if they are performing the genuflection incorrectly.  It is merely a curiosity of mine as I have seen it done multiple ways.

    When a priest reserves the Eucharist in the tabernacle, for example, following communion of the people at Mass, is it correct for the priest to genuflect to the Eucharist before the tabernacle door is shut, after it is shut, or both?
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    Re: Correct Genuflection by Priest
    « Reply #1 on: April 06, 2025, 09:52:52 PM »
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    • Quote from: Dolores on April 06, 2025, 09:45:15 PM
    I want to preface this question by stating that it is likely a hyper-technicality, and I am not suggesting any priest is disrespecting the Eucharist and our Lord if they are performing the genuflection incorrectly.  It is merely a curiosity of mine as I have seen it done multiple ways.

    When a priest reserves the Eucharist in the tabernacle, for example, following communion of the people at Mass, is it correct for the priest to genuflect to the Eucharist before the tabernacle door is shut, after it is shut, or both?
    One genuflects after opening a tabernacle containing the Blessed Sacrament and again before closing a taberbnacle door if the Blessed Sacrament is reserved there.

    One does nothing if the tabernacle is not used for reservation of the Blessed Sacrament.
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