Posted on 05/06/2020 5:32:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
As public Masses start up again, people are sending notes with indications from different dioceses about distribution of Holy Communion.
Under the excuse of being “realistic” and so forth, chanceries are writing for their bishops – I prefer to believe that the bishops themselves are not so awful – that Communion in the hand is obligatory and that people do not have a right to receive on the tongue.
Sed contra, Redemptionis Sacramentum says “Quamvis omnis fidelis ius semper habeat pro libitu suo sacram Communionem ore accipendi,…”
[92.] Although each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, at his choice, if any communicant should wish to receive the Sacrament in the hand, in areas where the Bishops’ Conference with the recognitio of the Apostolic See has given permission, the sacred host is to be administered to him or her. However, special care should be taken to ensure that the host is consumed by the communicant in the presence of the minister, so that no one goes away carrying the Eucharistic species in his hand. If there is a risk of profanation, then Holy Communion should not be given in the hand to the faithful.
NB: “Always” and “right”.
Moreover, if Communion in the hand isn’t bad enough… and it is an abomination… now priests are being told that they are to drop the Host onto people’s hands.
They are to DROP the Host.
DROP. THE. HOST.
One of the sad and ironic advantages to this period of closure of Masses is that there have been millions fewer sacrilegious Communions received each Sunday by un-confessed and tepid or rebellious Catholics. Millions of “Body” blows that the Church didn’t have to absorb. Now priests are being told to drop Hosts onto palms.
Recently, Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, answered a questions about reception of Communion. HERE
There is already a rule in the Church and this must be respected: the faithful are free to receive Communion in the mouth or hand. […] The devil strongly attacks the Eucharist because it is the heart of the life of the Church. But I believe, as I have already written in my books, that the heart of the problem is the crisis of faith in the priesthood. If priests are aware of what the Mass is and what the Eucharist is, certain ways of celebrating or certain hypotheses about Communion would not even come to mind. Jesus cannot be treated like this.
Certain things would not even enter into their minds.
Read the GIRM, General Instructions of the Roman Missal. It never changed.
It was the U. S. bishops who did this.
Honestly, in my humble worthless opinion, you should be sorry.
Accusing fellow Catholics of being monsters for participating in a licit activity that you personally choose not to like or accept is arrogant at best, scandalous at worst.
Your piety is enviable. Your pride comes across as accusatory and obnoxious.
I really think you could be source of inspiration helping people find the truth of our Church without giving up an inch on your approach if you just tried.
All the best.
You know that is not possible without an annulment. Right?
Has the formal teaching of the Church regarding reception of the Eucharist been changed?
Don’t split hairs - yes or no?
Is it licit per the Church?
Of course, I know that! But Bergoglio doesn't think so, and he's made it licit.
Pope okays Argentine doc on Communion for divorced and remarried
In the hands, next drop in the hands , maybe then pass the Eucharist around in a community bowl we can all be our own EM !.....hey that would be even more efficient than the EMs......
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PROGRESS!
I don’t think so, because there is a precedent about that. And just like the Constitution, you follow the precedents.
I think I’m right on this.
Sarc, I hope.
Communion to Adulterers Promulgated as "Authentic Magisterium"
Accept no new rule or guidance issued by the Church since 1960 unless it reaffirms or correctly clarifies earlier canonical jurisprudence.
You're thinking is wrong.
I, myself, have never touched the Body of Christ with my hands, and I never will. I refrain from doing so for my soul.
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Most all Tridentine Catholics believe communion “in the paw” is an heretical abomination. The practice was promulgated by the Satan Council (VC-II, 1962-1965) with the intention of nullifying the sacramental doctrine of the Real Presence for the purpose of conforming to the Protestant belief that communion is only a symbolic commemoration of the Last Supper.
That went to the original article, not anything posted on FR.
Do you still think you're "right" by stating otherwise?
They were doing that at my college Catholic chapel in the ‘70s; passing around consecrated hosts in wicker baskets with students self-communicating.
I complained and the campus priest explained that “St” Paul VI had given college ministers permission to “experiment” with their catholic students.
I thought it was B.S., but years later I found out that Montini had given such permission.
So the gates of hell prevailed in 1960?
Then you should have never been permitted to be a Eucharistic Monster.
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The position of Eucharistic Minister is an abomination specifically promulgated by the Satan Council (1962-1966) to, in effect, de-emphasize the doctrine of the Real Presence in order to conform Catholic practice to Protestant theology.
So you won't accept the facts presented to you and attempt to divert?
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