Faithful in Charlotte continue to kneel despite efforts of Bishop Michael Martin to discourage the traditional practice by removing kneelers. [Video from July 1, 2025 Mass during Atlanta Province annual meeting, with nine other bishops in attendance].#bishopmartin #charlotte pic.twitter.com/9NFdblyyWU
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At our parish and our sister parish, communicants kneel and receive on the tongue if they wish, with no fuss or bother. As do those who wish to stand and receive on the tongue or hand. It has been that way from day one, with no problems for anyone either way.
Both parishes are Novus Ordo, but our sister parish offers one TLM on the schedule on Sundays, which is well attended, as are all our Masses at both parishes. We all get along very well and respect one another – no backbiting nor criticism from those with one preference or another. Which is a blessing and as it should be.
We are in the Cleveland Diocese and are blessed with a faithful, pastoral, and kind bishop. I wish the same for all my fellow Catholics.
I was in Charlotte right after the news of the TLM suppression came out. I went to this parish and was impressed by how crowded the NO vigil was. Standing room only, and it’s not a small church. Altar boys, chanting, great homily, with a side of a woman lector and collector. I saw that collections the week before was $49k. It usually is a bit over $27k, which is their weekly goal. I’m not sensing a *unity* problem here.
I am able to kneel for communion without difficulty, however, many elderly or parents carrying infants have trouble kneeling without kneelers or a communion rail to lean on.
If Catholics are allowed to receive communion kneeling, it is highly exclusionary to deprive the people receiving communion of kneelers or a communion rail. Is a Catholic church ADA compliant without kneelers or a communion rail? Are the elderly being deliberately denied the chance to receive communion kneeling? Are the bishops ableist? If an elderly or disabled Catholic attempts to kneel on the floor to receive communion and injures herself, who is liable? Could some lawyer perhaps look into this?
If the bishops will not be persuaded by sound doctrine and liturgical practice, or the pleas of the pious, perhaps they will be persuaded by the possibility of litigation. How ridiculous it is that children have to beg their fathers for their religious birthright!
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I attend a church in Santa Clara, CA, that is pastored by the IVE. The five daily NO masses are very holy and communicants can receive at the communion rail either while standing or kneeling; on the tongue, or in the hand. Some women wear chapel veils. Europeans, Africans, Indians, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Chinese — No divisions here.
In the English Masses we often sing the Kyrie in Greek and the Agnus Dei in Latin; the Ave Maria is always in Latin, and every once in a while the Credo also in Latin.
Our church used to host a monthly TLM and weekly NO In Latin, but those two were cancelled under the former bishop many years ago.
Hopefully inroads will be made and we once again can have the TLM in our parish instead of on the “reservation.”
I see the bishop also ignores the prescription against blessing non-communicants in the Communion line.
Clearly scrupulous obedience to directives only applies to certain things.