Posted on 06/17/2020 1:51:31 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
Last year, I wrote a column arguing that if priests and bishops refuse to stand up for the Sacrament of Matrimony, they will eventually grow reluctant to stand up for the other sacraments as well. ... [T]hat’s a prediction that has come true in ways far worse than I could have imagined.
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The end-of-life sacramental issues have been the most newsworthy.
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There have also been beginning-of-life sacramental issues, as infant baptisms have been postponed indefinitely. (Presumably, some Catholic parents have baptized their own babies during this time. But with catechetics as it is in America, many Catholic parents are unaware ... . ... ... some Catholics might start thinking that if God does not truly require the sacraments, then why bother receiving them at all? ... How many have come to doubt the essential nature of the sacraments, or even of the Mass?
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In watching livestream Masses during the COVID-19 situation, it is not the case that we have been fulfilling our liturgical obligation; it is that the obligation has been abrogated.
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...watching Mass at home ... does not constitute “assisting” at Mass.
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As Pope Pius XII explains in Mediator Dei: "The worship rendered by the Church to God must be, in its entirety, interior as well as exterior. ... Exterior worship ... reveals and emphasizes the unity of the mystical Body, feeds new fuel to its holy zeal, fortifies its energy, intensifies its action day by day…” (emphasis added)
Most immediately, the faithful must understand the central importance of the Eucharist.
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There are those who will insist that they feel like they can attend Mass at home — that they “feel more spiritual” in their own living rooms. It is going to prove difficult to put that genie back in the bottle.
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(Excerpt) Read more at m.ncregister.com ...
I think it’s the bishops that need to be reminded.
Yet you have to deel with the home bound or shut ins.
Quite right. Salvation by faith alone does nullify the sacraments. Romans 11:6.
Paul doesn’t have the authority to nullify something instituted by Christ. He would be the first to tell you that.
Ping
I enjoy watching the mass from home. I can mute the music, fast fwd the homily and avoid holding hands!
I'll bet you do.
Why would you fast forward through the homily? Maybe there’s a message for you in it.
I listen to the beginning to see how it goes, then when the priest asks people in the assembly to speak up with their own opinions, it devolves into a discussion group, usually not edifying, and I tend to skip thru it. A real homily I will always listen to with open mind, which I can do at another parish I attend non-covid.
As he fills up arena after arena with white people across the country, it shows that either there are a vast number of racist white supremacists or the Democrats, media and the left are lying.
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Here’s a historical reminder: The “desacralization” of the Holy Sacraments was the inevitable outcome of the anti-Catholic “ecumenical” changes wrought by the Satan Council, i.e, the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Those changes triggered rejection of the Council’s changes, primarily its replacement of the traditional Tridentine Mass with the Protestant inspired Novus Ordo Mass, by large numbers of traditional Catholics.
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