Today I received a text from a priest friend who sent photos of the brand new COMMUNION RAIL which they just installed in the “old church”. This one these places where they built a new church but kept the old building as a chapel. The rail had been removed in the bad old days. He found a local woodworker and the project was paid for in one weekend.
The Whatever High Atop The Thing™ is so out of touch with what the people in the pews want.
Anyway, we have seen panicked reactions in places like New York and Chicago, et al., about the horror of returning to kneeling for Communion. “How backwardist of those troglodytes! They must be forced to walk-together… in lock-step!”
Today I saw at National Catholic Register a piece by Joseph Pronechen, about the return of Communion rails. HERE
Furthermore, TWHATT™ will never succeed in crushing out the Traditional Latin Mass. Why? Because that means crushing out the people who want it. They are the true target. But the people who want it are believers.
Communion Rails Return as Churches Embrace Beauty and Reverence
A growing number of Catholic parishes in the U.S. are restoring altar rails, renewing reverence and transforming the faithful’s experience of the Holy Eucharist.Every Sunday at St. Anne Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia, the Hilleary family — mother Michelle, father Brian and five children — receives Communion at the altar rail.
“It creates a more sacred space. And it draws your attention to the sacred,” Michelle Hilleary told the Register.
“It sets apart the sanctuary,” observed her 15-year-old daughter, Malia.
That wasn’t always the case.
When St. Anne’s was built in 2016, there was no Communion rail. Today, a redwood altar rail — installed in July 2024 — now surrounds the sanctuary.
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Father Kwiatkowski recounted that the former pastor had placed one kneeler in front of the sanctuary. Father Kwiatkowski added a second kneeler to enable a more reverent reception. Then one family offered $50,000 toward an altar railing if he could raise the remainder of the money needed to complete the project. “Within a week, I found the rest of the sponsors,” he said, explaining that parishioners supported the addition of the altar railing costing a total of $90,000.
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For weeks before each Sunday Mass, he explained to parishioners how to use the altar rail, depending on people’s choice of how to receive Communion, and he posted these explanations on the parish website.
So far, he has found that “about 90% of the people will kneel to receive Communion. Even if they are receiving on the hand, they will still kneel and use the altar railing.” Naturally, those unable to kneel will stand.
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In Springfield, Virginia, St. Raymond of Penafort Catholic Church was completed in 2006 — without altar rails.
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Father De Celles has found that “about 80%-90% of the people kneel.” Most who don’t kneel “tend to do so because they physically have a hard time kneeling and standing back up, or because they are visiting the parish.”
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There’s more. It’s a very good article.
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