young priest who, not having experienced the pre-Vatican II Church, knows what to do to 'fix' the current one...Opinion: Fr. Markey on 'Communion on the Hand'
I have no problem with receiving Communion on the tongue, in fact, during certain periods in my recent life, I have done just so. If the move is going to be back to kneeling, though, it has to be done through the parishes and with the return of the altar rail (as kneeling also seems to be part of the 'repair'). I can't kneel in front of the priest. I won't be able to get up again. I need the altar rail to help me, given my wrecked knees. Right now, the occasional kneeling recipient just creates a bottleneck and confusion at the front of the Church. Bring back the Communion rail and then we'll talk...
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We have an alter rail and people kneel for communion. But we have a small church. I can't imagine how long the same process would take in the average Catholic parish! And one of my churches has given up kneeling for the simple and practical reason that too many seniors find it difficult. (They still have an alter against the wall though! But it would be very difficult to move it out.)
When people knelt at the rail it actually went quite quickly, with the priest moving from one to the other down the rail. With two priests they started in the middle and went either way so it went quite quickly. As a communicant, we just waited our turn and knelt at that point when the next person got up and vacated their spot. It was actually very quick and almost like choreography (not the 'White Christmas' choreography, if you know what I mean...)
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