[MR] A Question of Protocol

[Anthony Bryant]

Dave Montuori wrote:


> Born and raised Roman Catholic here... and we were taught in school that 
> you don't reverence the throne, nor the altar; when one is going to 
> genuflect or otherwise reverence, you do so in the direction of *where the 
> consecrated host is* -- for we are doing reverence to the Lord.
> 
> Since most parishes have the tabernacle right behind the chairs wich are 
> right behind the altars, it's an easy confusion to make.

Yeah, but do you not venerate the cross? Images of the 
Theotokos and the saints? Those are just wood, or stone, or 
metal... That's what I'm talking about.

We venerate icons, we bow before the altar, we kiss the 
priests' hands, all because they represent something greater.

Effingham
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