ABS went to Confession Saturday at Our Lady Queen of the Apostles in Royal Palm Beach and as he sat there waiting for Confession to begin, he noted how the majority of the men and women entered the Blessed Sacrament Chapel and simply took a seat in the pew without genuflecting.
A few of the souls faux genuflected (knee not touching the floor) and made the sign of the Cross.
Other than ABS, not a single soul knelt with both knees touching the floor, head bowed, sign of the Cross.
ABS is an Irish Algonquin Trad who will never - as in never ever - apply the sacramental of defenestration to that which he was learnt as a young Catholic and what he was learnt was that when he entered into the presence of a Monstrance, he was learnt to kneel with both knees on the floor, to bow his head, and to make the sign of the Cross.
ABS is the same age as Israel (born in 1948) and he is not quite as spry as he once was but he will not act like the vast majority who have been conditioned to act ever since the dignity-of-man-democrats began to dismantle all outwards signs of piety because ecumenism.
Some of the souls who entered the Chapel were the same age as ABS. How were they convinced it was a good idea to ditch the humility and to put on the new man?
ABS just doesn't get it anymore.
Such sacred disrespect is now common, and not just in a Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
Just look at how many souls now talk in church, loudly, before and after Mass, and notice how many have substituted a bow for a genuflection?
ABS is in a tiny minority and he has known that forever and he also knows he is going down fighting because he knows what to do even if nobody knows.
Will what ABS does before a Monstrance be a reminder to other men of how they ought act?
Doubtful. They prolly think ABS has Tourettes, OCD, or Colitis.