Here is a direct link to the original online article at The Remnant through which Bishop Schneider released his statement and prayer:
Author Diane Montagna adds the following from Rome:
Bishop Athanasius Schneider is calling on Catholic clergy and laity around the world to unite in a crusade of reparation for sins against Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.
The call comes as instances of profanation and sacrilege against the Most Blessed Sacrament have skyrocketed due to responses to the coronavirus, and after five decades of what the bishop terms unprecedented abuse against the Eucharistic Lord.
In [his] statement ..., Bishop Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, says such abuse includes the widespread practice of “Communion in the hand,” reception of the Eucharist “by those who have not received the sacrament of Penance for many years,” and “the admittance to Holy Communion of couples who are living in a public and objective state of adultery,” i.e. divorced and remarried Catholics.
“In the current so-called ‘COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency,’ horrible abuses of the Most Blessed Sacrament have increased still more,” he adds. “Many dioceses around the world mandated Communion in the hand, and in those places the clergy, in an often-humiliating manner, deny the faithful the possibility to receive the Lord kneeling and on the tongue, thus demonstrating a deplorable clericalism and exhibiting the behavior of rigid neo-Pelagians.”
In his statement, Bishop Schneider also denounces the practice — decreed by the Italian government in consultation with the Italian Bishops Conference — of priests wearing disposable gloves to distribute the Sacred Host. “The adorable Eucharistic Body of Christ is distributed by the clergy and received by the faithful with household or disposable gloves. The treating of the Blessed Sacrament with gloves suitable for treating garbage is an unspeakable Eucharistic abuse.”
Drawing on the wisdom of the Church’s great Eucharistic saints, as well as the writings of Pope John Paul II on the Holy Eucharist, Bishop Schneider explains that Jesus “is affected and touched in His Sacred Heart by the abuses and outrages against the Divine majesty and the immensity of His Love in the Blessed Sacrament.”
“Jesus Christ continues in a mysterious way his Passion in Gethsemane throughout the ages in the mystery of His Church and also in the Eucharistic mystery,” he writes.
Bishop Schneider is therefore urging Catholics to imitate the example of the children of Fatima and to “console the Hidden Jesus,” i.e. the Eucharistic Lord.
“No true Catholic bishop, priest or lay faithful can remain indifferent and simply stand by and watch,” he writes. “There must be initiated a world-wide crusade of reparation to and consolation of the Eucharistic Lord.”
Concretely, Bishop Schneider suggests that each Catholic “promise to offer monthly at least one full hour of Eucharistic adoration, either before the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle or before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in the monstrance.” He has also composed a reparation prayer (see below) that may be offered to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
He also said it would be “pastorally urgent” and spiritually fruitful” for the Church to establish an annual “Day of Reparation for the crimes against the Most Holy Eucharist.”
In comments to the Remnant, Bishop Schneider expounded on the initiative, saying: “I think it should be a crusade of reparation open to all Catholics of the world, especially simple the Catholics, who are despised and marginalized by the clergy because of their love and reverence for the Eucharistic Lord.”
He particularly invited priests and seminarians to participate in and promote the crusade, adding that it will “also appeal to cloistered nuns in a special way.”
“It should be a living, adoring and expiating chain all around the world, before the largest number of the tabernacles possible,” he said.
Bishop Schneider, who devoted a chapter of the book Christus Vincit to the holy angels, ended by saying: “We should invite the Holy Angels to accompany us in this crusade.”
In all this minutia about the Sacrament and the tabernacle, let’s not forget what it’s all about: the Cross.