How To Genuflect While Carrying an Infant
May 31, 2006
Occasionally I get the most puzzling stumpers received at Catholic Answers forwarded to me. Occasionally even the great apologetical minds of the day, like Jimmy Akin, ask yours truly for advice. Questions like what to do if the the holy water is frozen, or how to genuflect safely while carrying an infant. The latter question sounds suspiciously like a fable that has made the rounds as cause for not genuflecting before receiving Communion because someone allegedly fell over a genuflecting parishioner and broke a leg during the procession. Likely story! Nevertheless, I must advise caution when one is bearing a child. Rather than attempting to bow or take a knee, I recommend a variation of the rifle salute of the French Foreign Legionnaires of Christ, as pictured here:
Simply elevate the child briefly, without squeezing in case he or she has been preloaded with avocados, bananas and the like. There is no safety lock on those things!
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