Q: I have not been to LA Congress in a decade, but I have attended many of your workshops there.
In one of your workshops, you mentioned the Ceremonial of Bishops, which, in Article 72, on page 37, states:

A deep bow ismade to the altar by all who enter the sanctuary (chancel), leave it, or pass before the altar.

Is this article to be enforced during regular Sunday masses, or just masses with a Bishop or some other criteria?

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A: I take CB 72 to give guidance to all Masses. That particular instruction is missing from the GIRM, so it looks as though the CB added it to clarify what was missing.

It perfectly coheres with other posture and gesture requirements in the GIRM, which forbids genuflections to the tabernacle during Mass. Here’s a previous post on that: https://paulturner.org/genuflection/.

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