To: ultima ratio
Other reasons will be given by bishops for these changes--but the real reason is to undermine the dogma of the Real Presence.The real reason is to undermine the dogma of the Real Presence? Have you bugged the chanceries where this is discussed? Have you some kind of inside information to support this conspiratorial conjecture of yours? I suppose the encouragement of Eucharistic Adoration is some kind smoke screen. When I see my bishop kneeling in front of the Blessed Sacrament am I, like you, to think to myself, it is only a ruse.
26 posted on
04/04/2004 5:18:27 AM PDT by
St.Chuck
To: St.Chuck
No, I don't read minds--but I have read reports from Rome which warn that these changes in the rubrics would undermine the dogma of the Real Presence. The bishops went ahead anyway--first by removing tabernacles from church sanctuaries, then by eliminating devotions to the Blessed Sacrament, then by reducing genuflections in the Mass, then by Communion in the hands, then by ripping out communion rails, then by officially commanding everybody to stand to receive, then by eliminating kneelers in the pews--always in the opposite direction to what really made any Catholic sense. They always give excuses--convenience, traffic control, etc.--but it all adds up to the same thing and has the same effect--frustration of the Catholic desire to adore and destruction of belief in the dogma of the Real Presence, especially among the young. In just a few decades most Catholics now believe what Protestants believe, that Communion with Jesus is symbolic and no big deal. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on.
To: St.Chuck
Have you some kind of inside information to support this conspiratorial conjecture of yours?Williamson, Pope of SSPX is the source.
73 posted on
04/04/2004 2:41:34 PM PDT by
ninenot
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