Modernists also avoid the term "Holy Communion" and call it "Eucharist" instead, and substitute the word "grave sin" for "mortal sin".
"Reconciliation" instead of "penance" or "confession". Nobody sins anymore, right? Hey, do the N.O. priests order penance anymore after "reconciliation"???
"Holy Spirit", instead of "Holy Ghost", as in "the Spirit of Vatican II". Yeah, we get it, all too well.
MMJ
It's funny that you mention that one. It's always niggled at me since it seems that the word "Eucharist" can mean different things... the Mass or the Body of Christ or a pronoun as in "Eucharistic Gathering" or "Eucharistic sharing". Now I find this somewhat confusing language. And today I read on another thread the little blurb in the Missals about non-Catholics receiving Holy Communion and I find the same confusion is dispensed by the continued multi faceted use of the word "Eucharist".
The guidelines for receiving Communion, which are issued by the U.S. bishops and published in many missalettes, explain, "We welcome our fellow Christians to this celebration of the Eucharist as our brothers and sisters. We pray that our common baptism and the action of the Holy Spirit in this Eucharist will draw us closer to one another and begin to dispel the sad divisions which separate us. We pray that these will lessen and finally disappear, in keeping with Christ's prayer for us "that they may all be one" (John 17:21)."Because Catholics believe that the celebration of the Eucharist is a sign of the reality of the oneness of faith, life, and worship, members of those churches with whom we are not yet fully united are ordinarily not admitted to Communion. Eucharistic sharing in exceptional circumstances by other Christians requires permission according to the directives of the diocesan bishop and the provisions of canon law. . . . "
Read it a couple of times. It is really confusing.
Yes. Of course! Did you really think the answer was "no"?