{"id":8646,"date":"2002-08-31T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2002-08-31T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/08\/31\/i-can-stand-it\/"},"modified":"2002-08-31T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2002-08-31T18:08:05","slug":"i-can-stand-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/08\/i-can-stand-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I can stand it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>The Bishops&#8217; Committee on the Liturgy declared<br \/>\nin its July newsletter: &#8220;The bishops of the United States have decided that the<br \/>\nnormative posture for receiving Holy Communion should be standing. Kneeling is<br \/>\nnot a licit posture for receiving Holy Communion in the dioceses of the United<br \/>\nStates of America unless the bishop of a particular diocese has derogated from<br \/>\nthis norm in an individual and extraordinary circumstance.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><font\ncolor=#000000>Since I came into the Church in the Easter of 1999 I have always<br \/>\nreceived Communion kneeling, but if the Bishops say that the normative way is<br \/>\nnow standing then I will stand.<\/font><\/font> If the Bishops said that I must<br \/>\nstand on my head or receive Communion balancing on one leg I would gladly do it.<br \/>\nI guess that I will now have to do the much more difficult task of kneeling my<br \/>\nintellect to Christ when receiving Communion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishops&#8217; Committee on the Liturgy declared in its July newsletter: &#8220;The bishops of the United States have decided that the normative posture for receiving Holy Communion should be standing.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}