Posted on 10/17/2014 5:34:13 AM PDT by maggief
The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas is taking precautionary action in the wake of recent Ebola cases in Dallas, issuing a “liturgical adaptation” aimed at setting amended standards for worship that could help stem the spread of infectious diseases.
“Due to the upcoming influenza (flu) season and questions regarding communicable diseases, such as Ebola, we will be re-instituting the liturgical adaptations we have used in the past,” reads a document published Wednesday on the diocese’s website. “Please begin utilizing these adaptations immediately.”
The document goes on to outline actions that Catholic priests and congregants should take in an effort to keep themselves and their fellow worshippers protected from the spread of bacteria and illness.
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There's a whole BUNCH'A pastors that snub the fed
Here in FL, I pass on the wine. A little napkin wipe ain’t enough to convince me to swap spit with the last 50 communicants. Ditto shaking hands with ushers etc.
Yes...well.
Just how is it that one might think that Jesus’ words, “for you” might harm the partakers of His sacrament? 1 COR comes to mind.
FAITH, America.
FAITH, American Christians.
Faith
We don’t pass the Precious Blood during flu season. All our EMEs use sanitizer before going on the altar. Other than that, I would risk disease and death to go to Mass and receive the Eucharist.
Maybe they’ll finally do away with the so-called `sign of peace’!! Talk about spreading germs hand to hand, in addition to the insincere symbolism. Yuk!
How about Catholics joining their hands as in prayer & bowing to those next to them like they do in India? Means the same as a handshake but without bodily contact.
I once had an oral herpes outbreak that I believe I acquired from the communion cup. Thank God I only had the one outbreak but I did not take the wine for years and remain reluctant.
Now I am telling my family to take the Host only.
I knew that should have been instituted when I was a little kid. Those guidelines should have been the rule for decades.
There’s no such thing as an EME. see Redemptionis Sacramentum 154.
Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist
in other sacramental churches that believe in the “real presence,” people have the option of dipping the bread in the wine rather than placing their lips on the cup.
Of interest, in over 2000 years there has never been a recorded instance of spreading a communicable disease from the cup, in spite of many studies by critics over the years.
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