Canizares Revives the Communion Rail and Kneeling for Communion and on the Tongue in Cathedral

The universal norm of receiving communion kneeling ("Fideles communicant genuflexi vel stantes, prout Conferentia Episcoporum statuerit..."[Insitutio Generalis Missalis Romani, 160] ) at the communion rail and directly on the tongue by the priest is gradually being reinstituted. First by the Pope and now in Toledo, the primatial see of Spain, by the Prefect of Worship himself, the preferential option for more profound reverence is prevailing! May the ordinaries and cathedrals of the world take note, follow suit! See my translation below of the article from www.abc.es.

Canizares recovers kneeling communion, "just like the Pope does it"

EP/Toledo Friday, 10 April 2009

The Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Antonio Canizares, announced yesterday, during the Holy Mass of the Lord's Supper, that beginning yesterday evening those who wished to receive communion could do so kneeling at the kneeler "to communicate with respect and as the Pope does it".

Canizares told the faithful present at the mass that it is necessary to "greatly guard, much more, the moment of communion, therefore this evening and from this evening on in the cathedral church the communion kneeler is put out as the Pope does, as the Pope wishes, who is the one who indicates to the rest of the Church what we should do".

From another angle, he urged "in a pressing way to deepen the renovation and transformation of our society and of our history which has so much to do with the eucharist, primordial and substantial transformation, and foretaste of a new and renewed world".

"We need to renovate the sense of eucharistic adoration in the priests, in the seminarians, in the consecrated persons, in the entire christian people".

As he pointed out, "we need to deepen in eucharistic adoration, and such deepening will be possible only through a greater knowledge of the mystery in complete fidelity to the tradition and increasing the liturgical life inside our communities".

For Canizares, "from participation in the eucharist, from proper eucharistic celebration, our church will turn out fortified for the new evangelization of which the entire world is so urgently in need". For all of that, he said, "we must intensify a true and profound, nothing superficial, eucharistic and liturgical formation in our diocese".

The cardinal explained that "the renovation of the world will not come about without eucharistic renovation and without the renovation of the liturgy, and for that we must greater guard the celebrations, the silence, the proclamation of and listening to the word,our kneeling, the way to communicate, the way to be in church (el templo), the singing (el canto), and the zeal and participation in the parishes of adoration".