"Genuflexion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the right of the tabernacle. Vincent, having set the cruets on the credence, came back and knelt just below the altar step on the left, while the priest, after rendering homage to the Holy Sacrament by a genuflexion, went up to the altar and there spread out the corporal, on the centre of which he placed the chalice. Then, having opened the Missal, he came down again. Another bend of the knee followed, and, after crossing himself and uttering aloud the formula, 'In the name of ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... spirit of genuflexion and wanted to speak to God personally; to appeal to Him by a private petition as to a king whose ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... approaching nearer to it, and then kisses it in token of his love for Him, who died upon it for our salvation[91]. He also empties a purse, containing an offering of 100 scudi d'oro, into a silver basin near the crucifix. When the Pope is about to make the first genuflection, the choir begins to sing the improperii, the sentiments of which, and the chant composed by Palestrina [92], are admirably adapted to the pathetic ceremony. In them God enumerates the unparalleled benefits which he lavished upon the Jews, and the atrocious crimes by which they repaid ...
— The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs |
