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St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us, with respect to Communion in the hand, that reverence demands that only what has been consecrated should touch the Blessed Sacrament. He writes:

The dispensing of Christ's body belongs to the priest for three reasons. First, because . . . he consecrates in the person of Christ . . . Secondly, because the priest is the appointed intermediary between God and the people, hence as it belongs to him to offer the people's gifts to God, so it belongs to him to deliver the consecrated gifts to the people. Thirdly, because out of reverence toward this sacrament nothing touches it but what is consecrated, hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament. Hence it is not lawful for anyone else to touch it, except from necessity — for instance, if it were to fall upon the ground, or else in some other case of urgency.16

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St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us, with respect to Communion in the hand, that reverence demands that only what has been consecrated should touch the Blessed Sacrament. He writes:

The dispensing of Christ's body belongs to the priest for three reasons. First, because . . . he consecrates in the person of Christ . . .
Secondly, because the priest is the appointed intermediary between God and the people, hence as it belongs to him to offer the people's gifts to God, so it belongs to him to deliver the consecrated gifts to the people.

And what religion is Aquinas involved with??? It's certainly not the church of the Bible...

1Ti_2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

So there you go...There is only one intermediary between God and man, and it certainly isn't a Catholic priest...

Heb 7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Heb 7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.

Here's the one man/priest who replaced ALL priests for all time...

Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Unto God by HIM, not some Catholic priest...

Heb 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Heb 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

There it is, across the plate, waist high...

There is no such thing as a Eucharistic sacrifice...There is no re-presentation of the Cross...

Aquinas and the Catholic religion is foreign to the Bible...It is foreign to the one, high priest and only mediator between God and man...Aquinas admits that as does your entire religion...

"...hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament. I may be mistaken; but I always believed it was NOT the priests hands that were consecrated, but rather his fingers? [index and thumb]