Posted on 10/26/2013 11:02:27 AM PDT by RBStealth
How about the counter at the PHARMACY!!!!!
Don’t count on that invitation to the next picnic.
:p
For 25 years I was involved in every activity at Church; every spare moment was spent in volunteer work of every kind. Mrs. Chandler worked at the church for many years also. We've done our part and we've had our fill. So I won't miss the picnic at all.
HAHAHAHA
Like, going to church is a total freak-out?
For many years the Church distributed Communion on the tongue. And while I can only personally recall back to my First Communion in 1945, never once was there ever even so much as a mere mention that there might be some health or sanitary issue with this method of receiving the Sacred Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
Now, notably after the Modernist popes and bishops have foisted the heresies of Vatican II upon us, and after the Modernists trained under those heretical teachings have given us “Communion in the hand” distributed by most any parishioner that senses the urge to do so, we have this hue and cry about the spreading of disease.
Well, as a daily Communicant that only receives on the tongue (and from a priest if at all possible), I would humbly suggest it might be a good idea to go back, exclusively, to that practice once again. And while it may or may not have anything to do with reducing the opportunity for the spreading of disease, it might open some eyes as to the fact that what is taking place at the distribution of Holy Communion, is not simply something “that everybody does”, but those who receive are actually accepting the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ into their own body.
St. Catherine of Siena had begun to question whether her spiritual Communions had any real value compared to sacramental Communion. Suddenly she saw Christ holding two chalices. ‘In this golden chalice I put your sacramental communions. In this silver chalice I put your spiritual communions. Both chalices are quite pleasing to me.’
>I think it really would be best if you make a spiritual communion
thanks for the insult.
Oh and btw, if you had read all my previous posts...not required. You’d find that my wife has a compromised immune system.
I make a spiritual communion myself when I have a bad cold.
You seem to be seeing insult and controversy where there is none intended. Could you please calm down?
I would definetly recommend Spiritual Comm to someone with OCD or other anxiety problems while in Church!
However, recommending it to me, well what can I say.
I’m well read, very knowledgeable(extremely) in the faith. Its posited as an insult, unless the deliverer is just a simple person and I took you for being above average. Perhaps my biggest mistake.
Actually, I should probably be thankful that , so far, no one has accused me of being a hypochondriac or a germophobe also, which is all too common with this kind of discussion.
Although your comment comes close to the mark.
But my discussion here is to present some common sense risk reduction that I have thought about thats more inherent with metropolitan areas(more people touching things, 100,200 on counter tops) and church settings over living in more rural areas where your chance of disease/cold/flu transmission is very much lower.
Have a pleasant day besides you dealings with me, and I’m sorry.
Oh good freaking grief. Just forget about it.
>But my discussion here is to present some common sense risk reduction that I >have thought about thats more inherent with metropolitan areas(more people >touching things, 100,200 on counter tops) and church settings over living in >more rural areas where your chance of disease/cold/flu transmission is very >much lower.
And since living in metropolitan areas, dealing with a larger amount of people in every business establishment that you visit, more people have touched the counter tops, more people have entranced and exited through the doors pushing the door or using the same doorknob. These essentially become problems of large numbers and statistics.
Much higher risk that someone with a trasmittable cold or flu has touched that door or surface before you setting you up to receive the same thing.
If you reduce unwise contact with these surfaces, wash your hands, in the bathroom press the paper dispenser lever before you wash your hands,exit the door pushing with a paper towel if possible. Then you are employing the same strategies that medical personell employ to reduce catching and transmitting these same things.
The same employs for the communion line, receiving on hand or on tongue. Although I accept the risk of hand contact transmission, I find communion on the tongue to be risky or unsanitary. However, “when properly done” is not a guarantee that an old codger might cough unexpectedly on the priest as he is attempting communion, or someone might waggle their tongue unexpectdly, and what if that old codger or tongue waggler is an illegal alien with T.B. or something that is spread through saliva or bodily fluid contact. Then you host has it on it and these things are being transmitted to your tongue. This is by nature, an unsanitary process, that most people wont’ and dont think about in our culture. But these same people would feel uneasy about drinking from anothers cup in someone else’s home, outside of the chalice situation.
But Japanese culture and or Asian/Chinese cultures share these concerns, but ours does not.Those cultures already think about how to avoid uneccessary sickness, ours does not. They wear masks in public, we do not, we snicker and laugh. We accuse others of being hypochondriacs, obsessive, anxiety prone, worry warts and what have you.
Essentially these are problems of large numbers, both statistically and of people. Our cities are large and what was once viewed as a sickness problem resticted to child care and day cares are inevitably problems of living in a huge interconnected world with huge populations. And being educated, degreed and employed in Mathematics & Statistics this is how I think.
Essentially these are problems of large numbers, both statistically and of people.
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