[Catholic Caucus] US bishop says he’ll ban faithful from Mass if they ‘make scene’ to receive Communion on tongue

LifeSite News ^ | May 11, 2020 | Martin Bürger

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Stika wrote. “Immediately before you reach the distribution point you will remove your protective face mask placing it in your pocket and sanitize your hands with 70% alcohol-based sanitizing gel/solution (which will be on a small table directly in front of the distribution point).”

So much for Catholic ladies and young girls wearing dresses or skirts to Stikamasses.

Stika responded, “Actually, the bishops did not. A group made some recommends, actually three for the reception of the Eucharist. But bishops must follow their own conscience.

So much for all that "collegiality" and "universal Church"; francisbishops are each their own little dictators when it comes to breaking canon law.

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Ping

[Persevero]

Ah well I guess there IS something you can do to be banned from Mass.

Not running abortion clinics or passionately defending evil on the floor of Congress though.

[j.havenfarm]

First, “as per” is ungrammatical, Your Excellency. Second, it amazes me the dismissive tone that so many of these cretins dare to take with their flocks who are hungering for the sacrament

[Mrs. Don-o]

On your first point:

• ladies can sew pockets into skirts (I did so for all of mine long ago, just for practical reasons)
• If your dress doesn't have a pocket, you can wear it with a shirt, cardigan or vest that has a pocket
• after removing mask, insert arm through earloops, receive Communion, lick the palm of your hand to remove particles, then pull mask off of arm and put it back on your face
• I'm told there's this thing called a "purse" for a lady can carry small things like a facemask.

Just FYI. There's always a way, IMHO.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

There’s something off about Stika.
Also, his new cathedral is Disneyland-classical - all the trappings, none of the substance.

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...lick the palm of your hand to remove particles,...

Ya gotta lick both paws palms. Like a cat.

[SeektheTruth54]

That is desecration of the Body of Christ.One does not use a pocket. In fact, one is not allowed to do this or leave the Mass without consuming.

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The pocket was in reference to the mandatory face mask, not the Sacred Host.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You statement about the design of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Knoxville is, it seems to me, debatable.

The only criticism I've heard from (some) fellow Knoxville Catholics is that it was expensive. The counter-argument I've heard, is that it was built to last 500 years. Someone said it had "no substance"? I disagree.

To me, it looks like a Catholic Church, which is, I think, what was wanted.

It has an altar --- a real Catholic altar, substantial and of stone, with relics embedded, not a little wooden Cranmer table--- under a baldacchino on which Mass can be celebrated ad oriéntem as well as versus pópulum, a Communion Rail, a respectable pulpit, and traditional sacred art adorning its dome.

Introibo ad altar Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meum.

[!1776!]

“There’s always a way, IMHO.”

Good comments and I agree. Those who want to find obstacles will find obstacles. Those who want to find solutions will find solutions.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Last time I just licked my receiving hand. Like a cat. Or like some Byzantine Catholics do when they receive the antidoron. I don’t think it quite makes sense to lick your other hand that didn’t even touch the Sacred Host. Why would you think so?

[Mrs. Don-o]

The pocket is for the FACE MASK, not for the HOST, God forbid.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Yes all the trappings.
Architecturally it is a plastic banana.
It looks Renaissance but does not feel or sound such.
Authenticity is as important in building as it is in theology. A building pretending to be that which it is not, is in my opinion, scandalous.
I have been to the cathedral several times.

There is some exceptional new classical churches. This is not one of them.

[!1776!]

So it’s pretending to be a cathedral?

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I've never received in the paw; but isn't the proper way is to hold out your less dominant hand to receive the Host and then use your dominant hand to place It in your mouth?

Or do some just palm lick the Holy Eucharist?

[!1776!]

“Or do some just palm lick the Holy Eucharist?”

Picking a fight with a straw an Marty? Come on - you are better than that...

[Mrs. Don-o]

The way it worked here, is that Fr. Dustin, accompanied by an acolyte with a paten, administered to us as we were kneeling. Fr. Dustin just held out the Sacred Host and sort of dropped it into my receiving hand (left), and I brought my receiving hand immediately and directly to my mouth and consumed the Host. And then quietly and unobtrusively licked the palm of my receiving hand without (I think) anyone else noticing.

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As a post-note. In the TLM, the priest’s thumb and forfingers, the only ones that touch the Sacred Host at the Consecration, remain clenched together throughout distribution of Holy Communion to the faithful, except for the administration of the Host to each communicant, in which case the priest’s fingers remain constantly over the ciborium and then the paten under the communicant’ chin.

No palm licking required.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That’s one reason I vastly prefer TLM. Plus, I’m a member of the Schola Cantorum, and I love that to the depths of my tessitura.