From CatholicVote:
A number of Catholics on social media are defending the action of receiving the Eucharist on one’s knees, after the Archbishop of Chicago wrote a column discouraging the practice and asserting that everyone should receive standing.
The Council of Vatican II “called for the full, active and conscious participation of all the baptized in the celebration of the Eucharist to reflect our belief that in the sacred liturgy the faithful become the Body of Christ that they receive,” Cardinal Blase Cupich wrote Dec. 11 in the Chicago Archdiocesan online newspaper. “Our ritual for receiving of Holy Communion has special significance in this regard,” the Archbishop wrote. “It reminds us that receiving the Eucharist is not a private action but rather a communal one, as the very word ‘communion’ implies.”