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Kneel in prayer when you return to your pew after Communion, until the priest sits down, or until he says “Let us pray.” It took considerable courage to program this work as the nation headed into the 4th of July celebration. This was the true “patriotic” counterpoint to the false populism of a supposed shared national identity that some citizens force on the country as they parade their sacred right to oppress other fellow citizens. The Revolutionary Era ideal of e pluribus unum—“out of many, one”—simply cannot be recalled uncritically anymore until some essential understanding is achieved that for many classes and races, that America has simply never existed. Editor's note: This piece first appeared several months ago. We're running it again in light of the NFL's declaration that teams will face fines from now on if players kneel during the National Anthem.

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We had decided not to make any designs to mark this occasion but we have had so many requests for a design like this (from Canadian Veterans too), that we felt honoured to oblige. We are grateful to a few previous customers who had an input to what they wanted in the design, thank you. Pope Benedict XVI stressed the need for formation and instruction about the Holy Eucharist (“mystagogical catechesis”), and religious signs and gestures are an important part of this.

The Mass is a conversation with God. It’s important to speak to him at the appropriate times during the liturgy. It’s good to respond when the priest or Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion displays the Host or the chalice and says, “The Body/Blood of Christ.” The communicant should reply “Amen” as in agreement. He continued: ‘Image the power of Donald Trump doing that and the impact that might have in one action. ‘I genuinely believe he could make an enormous difference.’ Rather, he transformed a collective ritual—the playing of the national anthem—into something somber, a reminder of how far we still have to go to realize the high ideal of equal protection under the law that the flag represents. The athletes who followed him are showing reverence for the song and the flag, but they are simultaneously deviating from cultural norms at the moment their knees hit the grass.Since then, ‘taking the knee’ has been used as a silent gesture to protest against police brutality and racism at large. We show respect and reverence to the Blessed Sacrament by facing the tabernacle and bending our right knee to the floor. The word “kneeling” (Greek: proskynein) occurs 59 times in the New Testament — 24 in the Book of Revelation which represents the heavenly standard by which our earthly Mass is based.