WHY and When DO CATHOLICS Kneel? Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker. Psalms 95:6

Prayer while kneeling demonstrates an attitude or posture of Humility before God.
It’s historic throughout the Bible, the 1st century church and the Catholic Church of today.
Isaiah 45:22-24, Ps 95:6 Acts 9:40, Eph 3:14
KNEELING occurs 24 TIMES in the Book of Revelation, a heavenly standard for Catholic adoration and worship during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
EUCHARIST is “the source and summit of the Christian life” CCC 1324
PAST = Sacrificum, PRESENT = Communio, FUTURE = Viaticum, THANKFULNESS = Eucharistia.
For Catholics celebrating the Eucharistic Mass is actively praying not only with words, but includes body, mind and spirit. Physical body postures are varied during the order of the Mass. Sacred Silence, Standing, Siting, Genuflecting, Kneeling, Preaching, Teaching, Worshiping, Adoring, Thanking, Praising and Singing.
Old Testament: Psalms 95:6 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker. In Hebrew the verb barak, “to kneel”, is cognate with the word berek, “knee”. The Hebrews regarded the knees as a symbol of strength, to bend the knee is, therefore, to bend our strength before the living God, an acknowledgment of the fact that all that we are we receive from Him.
New Testament: Jesus, Peter, Paul, all men, women and children knelt when they prayed. Jesus, went throughout Galilee proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons. A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, JESUS stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!” Mark 1:39-41. Jesus after withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, He prayed. Luke 22:41. Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed. Acts 9:40. Paul said, I kneel before the Father. Ephesians 3:14. Paul when he had finished speaking he knelt down and prayed with them all. Acts 20:36. All of them, women and children included, escorted us out of the city, and after kneeling on the beach to pray, we bade farewell to one another. Acts 21:5. For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.” Romans 14:11. At the name of Jesus every knee should bend. Philippians 2:9-11
To Live your faith, To Learn your faith, To Share your faith! TEACH Like St. Thomas, DEFEND Like St. Michael, REPENT Like St. Augustine!
“Woe to me if I do not evangelize” 1 Corinthians 9:16. “So shall my Word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11 “Indeed, the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
Pope St. John Paul II. “It is not enough to discover Christ-you must bring Him to others! The world today is one great mission land, even in countries of longstanding Christian tradition.” “…you must put aside any fear in order to take Christ to the world. What a wonderful beginning, to make a mighty effort to transmit the teaching and the love of Christ to all who will listen, especially to those who for some reason have wandered away or have been alienated from the Church…”
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