Priest leading the faithful toward Our Lord, as it should be.
What’s “Ad Orientum Worship”?
Couldn’t determine from the excerpt.
Priest leading the faithful toward Our Lord, as it should be.
Ping.
Hear about this, ET?
Not only that, but...
St. Sixtus 1 (c. 115): “The Sacred Vessels are not to be handled by others than those consecrated to the Lord.”
Pope St. Eutychian (275-283)
Forbade the faithful from taking the Sacred Host in their hand.
St. Basil the Great, Doctor of the Church (330-379): “The right to receive Holy Communion in the hand is permitted only in times of persecution.”
St. Basil the Great considered communion in the hand so irregular that he did not hesitate to consider it a grave fault.
The Council of Saragossa (380): Excommunicated anyone who dared continue *receiving Holy Communion by hand.*
This was *confirmed* by the Synod of Toledo.
Saint Leo the Great read the sixth chapter of Saint John’s Gospel as referring to the Eucharist (as all the Church Fathers did).
Pope St. Leo the Great (440-461) energetically defended and required faithful obedience to the practice of administering Holy Communion on the tongue of the faithful.
The Synod of Rouen (650)
Condemned Communion in the hand to halt widespread abuses that occurred from this practice, and as a safeguard against sacrilege.
Rouen (650): “Do not put the Eucharist in the hands of any layman or laywoman but *only in their mouths.”
The Sixth Ecumenical Council, at Constantinople (680-681)
*Forbade the faithful to take the Sacred Host in their hand,* threatening transgressors with excommunication.
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) “Out of reverence towards this sacrament [the Holy Eucharist], nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest’s hands, for touching this sacrament.” (Summa Theologica, Part III, Q. 82, Art. 3, Rep. Obj. 8).
The Council of Trent (1545-1565) “The fact that only the priest gives Holy Communion with his consecrated hands *is an Apostolic Tradition.”*