[Pio]

My parish solved the communion in the hand thing by adopting a CCD programme that teaches that communion in the hand is taught by Vatican II. (Blest Are We)

By doing this, they take any opposition to communion in the hand and equate it to opposition to Vatican II and by extension to being schismatic (as seen on freepnet by well-honed modernists.)

So they figure that since they cannot get you, they will get your children.

[Stubborn]

As I recall, communion in the hand's introduction was a gradual process that began with the priest saying "Body of Christ" instead of "Corpus Domini nostri...", then every one stood instead of knelt for communion, then before long plunk, into the hand the host went.

I can still recall my reaction the very first time I ever saw communion in the hand. I recall being completely stunned - not knowing whether to think the priest was a devil or something, or those who received the host on their hands were. Back then, for those of us who were taught over and over again that the whole idea was a sacriledge, it was a shocking experience to say the least.

We've come a long way baby, the practice of communion in the hand, sign of peace and the other novelties were supposed to more closely unite us with Christ - strange how it has accomplished the exact opposite right under of the noses of everyone.