WHY IS THE BISHOP VIOLATING EUCHARISTIC PRAYER NORMS?
By Anne Knight At This Year’s Diocesan ordination Mass May 29, the congregation stood throughout the Eucharistic Prayer. So said Mary Ann Simard, a member of St. John the Evangelist church in Encinitas, where the Mass was held. She said Bishop Brom, always the main celebrant at ordinations, did not orally instruct the congregation on whether to stand or kneel. However, the Mass booklet for the occasion contains the following instruction: “Please remain standing during the remainder of the Eucharistic Prayer.” This was not the first time Simard had witnessed the congregation standing during the Eucharistic Prayer at San Diego diocesan ordinations. She has attended them for seven consecutive years and, as far as she recalled, the same thing occurred each year since 1995, when the ordination Mass was held at St. Michael church in Poway. Simard provided 1995 and 1998 ordination Mass booklets to News Notes. Both contain the same instruction to stand during the Eucharistic Prayer. Two years
