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WHEN DO WE BOW AND GENUFLECT AT MASS?

WHEN DO WE BOW AND GENUFLECT AT MASS?

I. BOWING OF THE HEAD:

A bow signifies reverence and honor shown to the persons themselves or to the signs that represent them.

A bow of the head is made when the three Divine Persons are named together and at the names of Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Saint in whose honor Mass is being celebrated.

Yes, every time Jesus name is mentioned, at any point during the Mass we are supposed to bow our heads. This also means, that when we sign ourselves with the sign of the Cross (since all three Divine Persons are named together) both at the beginning of Mass and at the end of Mass, During a solemn blessing at the end of Mass we are supposed to bow our heads.

After the consecration of the Body and Blood of Christ, the priest genuflect before the Body of Christ to adore we must join the priest by bowing our head. Same as the Blood of Christ.

Before receiving the Holy Eucharist at Communion: “When receiving Holy Communion, the communicant bows his or her head before the Sacrament as a gesture of reverence and receives the Body of the Lord”.

In praying the “Glory be” we are supposed to bow:

“GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND TO THE SON AND TO THE HOLY SPIRIT….”

II. BOWING OF THE BODY:

A bow of the body, that is to say, a profound bow, is made to the altar… in the Creed at the words et incarnatus est (and by the Holy Spirit…. and became man) all make a profound bow.

We should bow during the Creed:

“..AND BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, WAS INCARNATE OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND BECAME MAN.”

The only exception to this rule is on two specific feast days, when we do not bow at the waist but genuflect, namely the feasts of the Incarnation – Christmas and the Annunciation. As Christians, the very central doctrine of our faith is the Incarnation. Therefore, we reverence it every Mass at which the Creed is prayed with the bow of the body.

III. GENUFLECT:

The genuflection, seen as a sign of adoration, is reserved for the Eucharist as well as for the cross between its solemn veneration on Good Friday and the beginning of the Easter Vigil.

Before we enter/leave our sit we should genuflect to the tabernacle. It is appropriate to genuflect whenever passing in front of the tabernacle to honor the presence of the King of kings and Lord of lords.

“THAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THINGS IN HEAVEN AND THINGS ON EARTH AND THINGS UNDER THE EARTH.” (Philippians 2:10)

Source from: 

WHEN DO WE BOW AND GENUFLECT AT MASS? - THE SPLENDOR OF THE CHURCH. (2023, March 1). The Splendor of the Church; Splendor1618. https://thesplendorofthechurch.com/2023/03/01/when-do-we-bow-and-genuflect-at-mass/

 

JULIO CAZARRE: BRAZILLIAN ACTOR, CONVERT FROM SPIRITISM

Brazilian actor Juliano Cazarre was a follower of Spiritism prior to his conversion to Catholicism in 2018 after playing the role of Jesus Christ in a ‘Passion of the Christ’ drama at the New Jerusalem theater in the city of Brejo da Madre de Deus in Brazil.

MISSIONARY BISHOP OF MINDORO: SERVANT OF GOD by Jose Mario Bautista Maximiano

 MISSIONARY BISHOP OF MINDORO: SERVANT OF GOD

©josemariobautistamaximiano

1. WE give thanks to God for giving the Filipino nation saintly Spanish missionaries, priests and bishops, like the first Philippine bishop in the person of Domingo de Salazar,OP, champion of social justice and defender of Filipinos against the abuses of the Spanish colonial system.

2. Today we remember Bishop William Finnemann, SVD, (1882-1942) of Mindoro, a German missionary bishop who decided to become a naturalized Filipino. 

3. Rome has recognized that he was an outstanding Catholic shepherd who laid “down his life for his sheep” and declared him a SERVANT OF GOD on December 7, 1999. 

4. As a young priest, his preference was different: He longed to be assigned as a missionary among the black indigenous people of Africa. He was quite frustrated when the Divine Word Mission sent him to the brown Filipinos instead. In 1912, he told his brother, “I have now become fully aware of the blessing of obedience.”

5. Der Segen des Gehorsams ist mir jetzt einmal richtig bewußt geworden... 

6. “Determining the mission to Abra, the poorest province in the Philippines, was a hard blow for me. It was only when I became interested in the country and its people that I found that I hadn't made a bad exchange. I couldn't imagine a more suitable field of work for me today.”

7. As the highest Church officer in Mindoro, he was forthright, outspoken, and fearless in publicly denouncing the Japanese violation of human rights and the sequestration of church properties. 

8. As expected, his condemnation of viciousness and injustice done by the foreign invaders made him closer to his flock but distant from the Japanese favor. 

9. In fact, as soon as the Japanese Military Administration in Manila regarded him as “a real threat,” they arrested him without warning, imprisoned, and tormented him without end. 

10. They returned him to the Bishop’s house in Mindoro, but only for a while. On October 26, 1942, he was marked a target and arrested again. 

11. With an inkling that it could be his last sailing trip, the bishop turned down an escape plan as proposed by his clergy and lay leaders, saying, “If the shepherd flees, who should stand still?” 

12. The bishop’s martyrdom was narrated by Pedro Raagas of Naujan, a former seminarian in the diocesan seminary of Calbayog. 

13. On his trip back to the military court in Manila, the Japanese soldier in that military boar tied a large rock to the Bishop’s hands and a large heavy iron rod to his feet. 

14. About 20 kilometers from Calapan, somewhere between Batangas and Verde Island, the commanding officer made an order and shouted in Nippongo, and they threw the good bishop overboard – never to be seen again.

JESUS: “Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).

Passionist Fathers’ provincial superior dies at 55

Fr. Louie Fuentespina, CP. PASSIONIST FATHERS

By CBCP News

November 9, 2022

Manila, Philippines

Fr. Louie Fuentespina, the provincial superior of the Passionist Fathers in the Philippines, died on November 8. He was 55.

The priest’s congregation did not announce the cause of his death but said they are taking his demise with “deep sadness”.

“Thank you, Fr. Louie for your faithful ministry as a servant and priest of God in the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ. Rest in God, Father Louie,” it said on social media.

Fr. Fuentespina professed his perpetual vows as a member of the Passionist Fathers in 1994. He has ordained a priest four years later.

His wake will be held at the Holy Cross Spiritual Center in Calumpang, General Santos City until Nov. 13.

He will be laid to rest at the Passionist Cemetery after the funeral Mass at the Holy Cross Parish Church at 3pm on Nov. 14.

Works Cited

Passionist Fathers’ provincial superior dies at 55. (2022, November 9). Retrieved from CBCP News: https://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/passionist-fathers-provincial-superior-dies-at-55/

BENEDICT XVI: VATICAN COUNCIL II IS BOTH “MEANINGFUL AND NECESSARY

BENEDICT XVI: VATICAN COUNCIL II IS BOTH “MEANINGFUL AND NECESSARY” by Jose Mario Bautista Maximano

60 years ago, John XXIII opened the first session of Vatican Council II (October 11, 1962)

BENEDICT XVI: “When I began to study theology in January 1946, no one thought of an Ecumenical Council. When Pope John XXIII announced it, to everyone’s surprise, there were many doubts as to whether it would be meaningful, indeed whether it would be possible at all…”

As the Church celebrated the 60-year anniversary of the Second Vatican Council this month, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said that Vatican II not only was "meaningful" but "necessary" (in a letter to an international symposium on "The Ecclesiology of Joseph Ratzinger" held at the US Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio)

As a priest and theologian, Father Ratzinger attended all four sessions of the council as a theological adviser — a “peritus” — to the archbishop of Cologne, Germany.

ST. JOHN XXIII: FIVE POINTS TO ACHIEVE PASTORAL RENEWAL OF THE CHURCH

Gaudet Mater Ecclesia is John XXIII's opening speech of the Second Vatican Council.

1. Be filled with hope and faith. Do not be prophets of gloom.

2. Discover ways of teaching the faith more effectively.

3. Deepen the understanding of doctrine.

4. Use the medicine of mercy (no “anathemas”).

5. Seek unity within the Church, with Christians separated from Catholicism, with those of non-Christian religions, and with all men and women of goodwill.

6. Began by John XXIII, Vatican II has put emphasis on the Church’s permanent “duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel” (Gaudium et Spes, 4).

FIRST SESSION OF THE COUNCIL: 1962

Oct. 11, 1962 - Formal Opening of the Council; Opening Address by Pope John XXIII: Gaudet Mater Ecclesia

Dec. 8, 1962 - first session formally adjourns
Interim Period:

JUNE 3, 1963 - POPE JOHN XXIII DIES

June 21, 1963 - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected Pope, taking the name Paul VI

June 22, 1963 - Pope Paul VI declares his intention to continue the Second Vatican Council

Sept. 15, 1963 - Pope Paul announces the formation of a new steering committee to direct the work of the second session

Sept. 21, 1963 - Pope Paul addresses the Roman Curia, calling on their faithful cooperation with the spirit of aggiornamento and reform.

SECOND SESSION OF THE COUNCIL: FALL 1963

Sept. 29, 1963 - the second session formally opens
Dec. 4, 1963 - second session formally adjourns

THIRD SESSION OF THE COUNCIL: FALL 1964

Sept. 14, 1964 - the third session formally opens
Nov. 21, 1964 - third session formally adjourns

FOURTH SESSION OF THE COUNCIL: FALL 1965

Sept. 14, 1965 - the fourth session opens, less formally
Dec. 8, 1965 - the Second Vatican Council is officially closed with an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square.

Indeed, it can be said that St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis learned from St. John XXIII that Vatican Council II was meant to be the opportunity to move the Heavens to renew the face of the Earth, a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to undergo the most radical institutional transformation quite similar to what happened during the 16th-century Council of Trent. 

Works Cited

Maximiano, J. M. (2022, October 23). BENEDICT XVI: VATICAN COUNCIL II IS BOTH “MEANINGFUL AND NECESSARY. Retrieved from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=5876891062361786&set=a.595423107175301

 

BALITANG CFD | CFD WEBINAR NG CFD NATIONAL SINABOTAHE NG MGA HINDI KILALANG SALARIN

BALITANG CFD | CFD WEBINAR NG CFD NATIONAL SINABOTAHE NG MGA HINDI KILALANG SALARIN

Oktubre 10, 2022 - Kahapon ng ika-siyam na Oktubre ng taong 2022 sa bandang mga kalagitnaan ng alas-diyes ng gabi sa hindi inaasahang pangyayari habang nagkakaroon ng question and answer portion sa Webinar na isinasagawa ng CFD National na ang kung saan ang speaker na ito ay ang CFD National President na si Ryan Mejillano.

Sa unang pagkakataon , may nakapasok na mga hindi inaasahang mga tao at habang nagkakaroon ng Question and Answer portion ay biglang sinabotahe ang Zoom meeting o ang webinar na nagpapakita ng mga pornographic content o kung ano-ano mga gagawin sa share screen. Subalit sa chat box nagkakaroon din ng gulo. 

Isa sa mga puno't dulo nito sa pagkakaroon ng gulo ay ang mga nagngangalang ‘cody woodhams' ‘nathan jacks’ ‘Alex’ at may isang Russian na nakapasok sa Webinar ng CFD National na hindi nakapagrehistro sa naturang CFD Webinar ng CFD National na nais sirain o isabotahe ang webinar na ito.

Samakatuwid, agad namang pinatawag ni Talibong si Damaso upang papaalisin ang naturang apat na tao sa webinar upang maiiwasan na ang gulo ba aabot pa ito sa hindi inaasahan na maaring hahantong sa malaking kaguluhan. 

At pinatawag ang mga staff at lalong-lalo na ang Punto por Punto Staff upang maging co-host sa naturang webinar upang makontrol ang mga pumapasok at lumalabas ng mga participants sa naturang webinar ng ginagawa ng CFD National. 

Hindi ito ang unang pagkakataon na sinabotahe ng mga salarin ang naturang Webinar upang makapang-akit o gumawa lamang ng kaguluhan.

Sa katunayan nangyari ito sa mga iilang mga webinar at mga video teleconferencing  na pareho pa rin ang pakay na sirain ang reputasyon ng webinar na naglalayon na para sa ikabubuti ng lahat. Ang tawag sa naturang ginagawa ay ang mga tinatawag na ‘Zoom Bombing’ sa katunayan hindi literal na tawag nito sa halip ay tinatawag ding sa terminong  ‘Zoom Sabotage’ dahil sa pangyayari pananabotahe ng Zoom.  

Ang ‘Zoom Bombing’ ay isang uri ng pangyayari na nagtataglay ng mga gawain sa mga webinar lalong-lalo na ang pagpapakita ng mga kung ano-ano mga gawain lalong-lalo na sa pagpapakita ng malalaswang mga bagay at maaring hahantong sa kamatayan.

Sisikapin ni Damaso na hindi na mauulit ang naturang pangyayari pero inaasahan nila na aayusin nila ang sistema ng Webinar  upang hindi na mauulit ang naturang pangyayari at mas lalong hihigpitan ang Webinar para sa kaligtasan na rin ng iba. 

Mas lalong pinapaalalahanan ng Catholic Faith Defenders National Chapter na huwag ibahagi ang Zoom Link sa publiko upang makaiwas sa ganitong pangyayari upang hindi na ito aabot sa gulo o  kapahamakan. 

Balita ni: Bro. Niño Gaton

Litrato: Catholic Faith Defenders - Office of the National President 2019-2025