My cards are on the table. I think reception kneeling is the most important ritual adjunct to Holy Communion. Not that I in any way deny the very great propriety and suitability of receiving in os. It is certainly to be strongly encouraged in all three forms of the Roman Rite.
In the Church of England, before the ‘Catholic Revival’, reception was in manum. It had not always been so. In his first
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