When we go to the mass and see the Blessed Sacrament during the consecration and the Holy Communion as a Catholic, what should we do? When we saw the procession of the Blessed Sacrament everytime it passes by in the streets, what gesture should we use?
A very simple answer – we must kneel before the Blessed Sacrament!
A very simple answer – we must kneel before the Blessed Sacrament!
Why do we have to kneel? What is so special about the Blessed Sacrament that we must kneel in front of it? The Blessed Sacrament is the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ in the form of the bread. Just like He said to His apostles in the Last Supper, “This is my Body.” And whoever eats this bread will have an Eternal Life.
If the bread is our Lord Jesus Christ, why we should kneel before it? Jesus Christ is our God, one of the Three Persons in the Holy Trinity. He is our Creator, and we, as His creations, we must kneel before Him. We must show our respect and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, because this is the Body of our God.
Another reason is that Our Lord Jesus Christ is also our King, our Supreme Leader, and the King of all Kings. During the ancient times, the people must kneel before the King. But the generation today doesn’t do this anymore. Because the lack of religious and Catholic education. When we go to the mass, while the Priest lifted the Holy Eucharist, few people doesn’t kneel before the Blessed Sacrament. Most people who kneel are the ones inside the bench while others remains standing because they do not know what they must do. And some know these but they don’t want to kneel because their pants, skirts or their exposed knee will get dirty. They chose not to get dirt but forgot that they disrespect the Blessed Sacrament, the Body of our Lord.
The lack of education about the Blessed Sacrament is one of the results of modernism. Some think that the age of kneeling in front of the King does not exist in our Modern Time. And in our times we have the right to choose, whether we kneel or not, God will understand and forgive us.
Yes, God understands us, God is merciful and He will forgive us. God is Good, that is correct, but since we know this, we must return the favor. We must respect Him, adore Him, love Him and worship Him in the form of the Blessed Sacrament. He chose this bread to become His Body. As Catholics, we must do what is right. His apostles know it and they teach it to their disciples, and their disciples teach it to their disciples until the generation of priest today.
The sad thing is, after the Vatican II, these teachings are no longer applied because of ecumenism, a so-called “respect” to the views of the other religions like the protestants or what we now called born again Christians. To these protestants, the Eucharist is just a symbol or a one-time event happened only in the Last Supper. They ignored the Truth given by Christ, and deviate from the teachings the Apostles and the early Christian Fathers. We must do what is right by following the words of Christ.
The sad thing is, after the Vatican II, these teachings are no longer applied because of ecumenism, a so-called “respect” to the views of the other religions like the protestants or what we now called born again Christians. To these protestants, the Eucharist is just a symbol or a one-time event happened only in the Last Supper. They ignored the Truth given by Christ, and deviated from the teachings the Apostles and the early Christian Fathers. We must do what is right by following the words of Christ.
What if we saw the Blessed Sacrament procession in the muddy place? Do we have to kneel? Yes, is the answer.
Even if the Blessed Sacrament is inside the tabernacle, we must respect it. When we are inside the church, we must genuflect (right knee only) when we passed by the aisle. When we are outside the church or pass a church, we must make a sign of the cross.
Remember, the only creature who does not have respect to God is the devil. And there are two ways to choose, Christ who is our way to salvation or the devil who is the way to destruction. Definitely we have to choose Christ, because He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
