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Show The Genuflection. ' j Upon entering a Catholic Church. i should a light be burning before the tabernacle, a Catholic makes a genuflection genu-flection to the Blessed Sacrament. It is rather remarkable how few Catholics Catho-lics perform this act of religion properly. prop-erly. To genuflect does not mean to kneel, nor is it exactly to courtesy, a j sort of bob down and up. The rule for i making a genuflection is the same for i priest and people, for the young and ! old of both sexes, nantidy, to bend the right knee until it touches the ground. . In genuflecting a person should preserve pre-serve the upper part of the body in a ' rather erect position, bending the knee and arising with ease aftd gracefulness. To genuflect is an act of worship and should be performed slowly, with rev- t 1 erence and recollection. To bend the 'A knee to the tabernacle is to adore Jesus Ii Christ In the Holy Eucharist. It is j i the outward bodily expression of the j j laiih that is in the soul jj . if I |