The Daily Mail is irreverently treating the
prostration of Pope Francis yesterday during Good Friday services like some
sort of novelty. But it is not a
novelty at all, but common practice for Roman Catholic and many Anglican
priests.
I first encountered this at Smokey Matt’s on Good
Friday years ago. The Mass began
with the celebrant and his assistants lying prostrate for quite some period of
time. This impressed me. Instead of finding it strange, I found
it very appropriate.
And if Good Friday is not a time for
prostration, when is?
In fact, the first thing I did yesterday
morning was to go up into my attic chapel and lie silently prostrate (face
down, of course). I was going to
services later, but felt it meet and right to get my prostration in.
May God bless all my readers, prostrate and otherwise, as we conclude
remembering the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord.
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