Posted on 08/31/2014 6:59:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
Ping
Ann Barnhardt has conjectured that merely turning the priests around so they face the front of the church rather than the congregation would fix many of the problems of the church because it would flush out all the "Look at me - I'm so cool" priests.
I don’t doubt it.
What an excellent bishop! Thanks for the ping.
I wonder how we could have this big split in the Church when it seems no one bothers to attend except on Christmas an Easter.
I never thought of my self as an extremist
http://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/01/31/the-one-about-jesus-religion-the-kennedys-and-d-10-caterpillars/
In short, the priest should face the tabernacle and therefore his (and the congregation's) Lord and Savior. It is preferable that Mass be said in Latin. It seems absolutely correct that "Communion in the hand" is an outright abomination. That does not mean that sound beliefs on such matters makes one his own pope.
Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C. (born Anton Schneider on 7 April 1961) is a Roman Catholic bishop who is the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan and titular bishop of Celerina. He is a member of the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra.
Anton Schneider was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1973, shortly after making his first Holy Communion by the hand of Bl. Oleksa Zaryckyj, priest and martyr, he left with his family for Germany. When he joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross of Coimbra, a Catholic religious order, he was given the religious name Athanasius. He was ordained a priest on 25 March 1990. Starting in 1999, he taught Patristics at Mary, Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda. On 2 June 2006 he was consecrated Bishop at the Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Vatican by Angelo Cardinal Sodano. In 2011 he was transferred to the position of auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Astana.[1] Bishop Athanasius Schneider is the General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of Kazakhstan.[2]
Dominus est[edit]
Bishop Schneider is well known for his defense of the traditional form of receiving Holy Communion (kneeling, on the tongue) in Catholic liturgy.[3] This is the theme of his book Dominus est,[4] published in Italian, and since translated into English, German, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian and Chinese. The book itself contains a foreword written by Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, then the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the current Archbishop of Colombo and Metropolitan head of the church in Sri Lanka.
Bishop Schneider encourages Catholics who truly believe they are receiving Christ in the Blessed Sacrament should kneel and receive Communion on their tongues: “The awareness of the greatness of the eucharistic mystery is demonstrated in a special way by the manner in which the body of the Lord is distributed and received”.[5]
English liturgical scholar and commentator Alcuin Reid wrote a noteworthy review of Dominus est in The Catholic Herald: “Bishop Athanasius Schneider, a patristic scholar, appointed a bishop by Pope Benedict in 2006, has raised his voice in prophetic call for the western Church to recall the importance, if not the necessity, of returning to the previous discipline of the reception of Holy Communion kneeling and on the tongue.”[6]
Bishop Schneider is not SSPX. He is a fully valid and licit auxiliary bishop in Kazakhstan. He conducted a pontifical mass at our fully legitimate, in communion with the Pope and local successor of the apostle, Summorum Pontificum, Tridentine Latin mass community. He is a decent man and prelate.
Again, Bishop Athanasius Schneider must go beyond this idea. The VII documents weren't just "unclear". I do have hope that the Holy Spirit (with the intercession of his namesake) will lead him and give him the courage to go in that direction.
Let's face it. He's the only one in the post VII hierarchy who seems to even notice any problems.
Saint Athanasius, pray for us.
One can only wonder what Francis has in store for *this* bishop.
Good grief, at a time when Christians in the Middle East are fleeing for their lives, we still have debates over the mass/divine liturgy?
Anyone who thinks this thread is merely about liturgy totally misses the boat.
The better answer would be to make the NO a lot more reverent and with that, with the newer priests that are graduating from the seminaries and are getting ordained would be the better way to go.
In other words, clean up the liturgical abuses and problem solved.
It is more than “liturgical abuses”.
And are you now debating about the liturgy?
In short, you agree with all the Bishop says, but not his right to say it?
In short, once again an elk has put a hoof in it’s mouth.
Good questions!
Thanks. Excellent and uplifting post.
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