> From: Dr. Karen Jolly [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> In addition to Francine's remarks on genuflecting toward the altar,
> I also noted in my viist at St. John's in Collegeville that the monks
> bowed (head or upper body) for the response "In nomine etc" (in ICEL
> English, but they never forgot the Son!), keeping head down for the
> Trinity but raising up for the "as it was..." Is this common?
>
You'll see Franciscans doing this, too. I'm not sure of the origin,
but it's considered liturgically "cool" nowadays. During the Gloria Patri
one begins to incline the upper body forward at "Glory be to the Father, and
to the Son, and to the Holy spirit" then one gradually straightens up during
"as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be." Monks/clergy who are
into this bow also generally come to a full stop and bow at the altar rather
than genuflecting. At a parish I belonged to at one point, parishioners who
wanted to be liturgically "hip" bowed and everyone else genuflected or did
nothing.
> For a left hander, signing is sometimes tricky. I keep wanting to
> use my left instead of my right hand, and then get the direction
> confused (to the left first, end on the right?).
>
The Eastern rites do right shoulder first anyway! In fifth grade I
had a classmate whose family belonged to an Eastern Rite parish. The nun
insisted he cross himself "her" way at school because it distracted her to
keep seeing it done "wrong." Such intolerance!
Francine
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