"The Church prescribes the greatest respect before the Blessed Sacrament, especially when it is exposed, for then the silence must be even more absolute and the decorum more reverent. I would prefer that no one sit before the exposed Blessed Sacrament, and although this is permitted, it should not be done without true necessity.
During exposition, what the holy liturgy requires is not a simple genuflection, but a double genuflection, or genuflection on both knees, in imitation of the twenty-four elders before the heavenly Lamb.
Therefore, in acts of worship, everything must be ordered to the expression of the soul's intimate homage, its respectful and profound adoration. Saint Teresa said that she would give her life for the smallest ceremony of the Church, because she knew its value well. Let souls at least give it respect, devotion, and love."
Saint Peter Julian Eymard
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