Posted on 01/12/2022 8:35:04 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
NEWSFLASH: Bishop Schneider Calls on Pope Francis to Rescind Ban on Latin Mass & Sacraments!
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Secondly, St. Sixtus confirmed what was already the church's position in 115 A.D.: "The Sacred Vessels are not to be handled by others than those consecrated to the Lord."
Third, The Sixth Ecumenical Council at Constantinople (680-681) forbade the faithful to take the Sacred Host in their hand, threatening transgressors with excommunication.
The 19th Ecumenical Council of Trent (1545-1563), which declared the Latin Mass cannot be abrogated, also declared "The fact that only the priest gives Holy Communion with his consecrated hands is an Apostolic Tradition".
The laity not receiving in the hand cannot be overturned as it would overturn Apostolic Tradition. Undo Apostolic Tradition and you unravel the church.
Fourth, from the Council of Trent, Session 7 Canon 13, the mass was to remain unchanged for all time declaring no one was to change it, with the popes of this council and subsequent popes perpetually in agreement until Vatican II.
Fifth, Pope Paul VI on Jan 12, 1966 declared that Vat II does not possess notes of infallibility and John XXIII and Benedict XVI both said Vatican II was not a dogmatic council whereas the 6th and 19th Ecumenical Councils are infallible.
Francis the Merciful.
Obviously the Council of Trent didn't write something as lame as "The fact that," so you're misrepresenting them when you put this in quotation marks.
What I believe you're referring to is the following:
As regards the reception of the sacrament, it has always been the custom in the Church of God that laics receive communion from priests, but that priests when celebrating communicate themselves, which custom ought with justice and reason to be retained as coming down from Apostolic tradition.
People aren't allowed to self-communicate, even in the Novus Ordo. (I know it happens in places, but it's still an abuse. So is self-intinction of the Host in the Precious Blood.) Unless you're a priest, you have to be given the sacrament by the minister.
This comment was at least in part occasioned by someone's objection to priests communicating themselves (not laity communicating themselves), because the contrary idea is specifically condemned in one of the canons.
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