In a "high priority" letter to a local parish priest, Belleville Bishop Edward Braxton set a Sunday deadline for all parishioners to kneel at the consecration. Bishop Braxton sent a letter marked "high priority" to Monsignor James Margason, pastor of Corpus Christi, who posted the information for parishioners, BND.com reports.
But at the 91-year-old wood frame Shiloh church, about 50 of the approximately 90 to 150 people who attend any of four Masses on the weekend sit in an annex, where there are rows of seats that have no kneelers, the paper says.
For years, many parishioners at Corpus Christi, including those in pews with kneelers and those without, have remained standing during the Eucharistic Prayer.
Margason said that Braxton's Dec. 7 letter to him was posted prominently in the church and that parishioners in the main section equipped with kneelers now kneel during the reading of the Eucharistic Prayer.
However in the annex, the people stand, Margason said. He declined further comment.
The letter did not state whether there would be consequences for continued standing, even in the annex where there are no kneelers.
Dave Spotanski, the diocesan chancellor of administration, said he could not comment because the letter was a private communication between a bishop and a priest, even though it was posted publicly at Corpus Christi Church.
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