During the priest's second genuflection, servers release chasuble, make a deep bow and ring the bell once.
Abbots and other senior monastics often received genuflection from their monks and often others.
The genuflection, in place of the previous bow of the head, was introduced only in the fourteenth century.
They amount to little more than a genuflection in the direction of local participation.
There was not even a passing genuflection in that direction.
To date we have had reflection, but no genuflection.
At least last year we had a genuflection in the direction of a value-added tax.
Again, it was a genuflection to party ideology that the investment income surcharge had to start at £1,000.
