For Your Weekend: How’s Your Posture?

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 2:1–12

Have you ever caught yourself about to genuflect before taking your seat at the movie theatre? I have. Fifty-plus years of genuflecting at Mass has ingrained this action into my brain so much that it happens mindlessly when I see a row of seats. 

It is good to genuflect. The mindless part, however, is not a good thing.

Why do Catholics genuflect? “A genuflection, made by bending the right knee to the ground, signifies adoration, and therefore ...