Posted on 05/16/2020 5:34:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
Alberta’s guidelines make it clear that reopening churches can't distribute communion or sing
EDMONTON, Alberta, May 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Alberta Catholic churches are banned from distributing Communion when they reopen today under Premier Jason Kenney’s partial lifting of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
According to the province’s Guidance for Places of Worship, religious services “must not include sharing food or beverages,” and “must not include any contact between congregants such as handshaking or the sharing of communal items (e.g. communion chalice).”
The guidance also states that “congregational singing is a high-risk activity and is not allowed.”
Kenney, who is a Catholic and voted pro-life during his years as a federal Member of Parliament, announced Phase 1 of Alberta’s regional economic relaunch on Wednesday.
The plan keeps current shutdown in place in Calgary and Brooks, hardest hit by the Wuhan virus, but allows a number of businesses — retail stores, hair salons, museums, daycares, day camps, restaurants and cafes — to reopen with restrictions elsewhere in the province on May 14, reported the CBC.
Churches, mosques, synagogues and “any other place of worship” are also allowed to reopen Thursday with restrictions, said Tom McMillan, assistant director of communications for the ministry of health.
“When stage 1 begins, places of worship will be able to hold services, provided they follow the guidelines provided by the Alberta government,” he told LifeSiteNews in an email.
“All worship leaders are still encouraged to hold services remotely and to use creative mechanisms whenever possible,” added McMillan.
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Maybe they can Hum
Singing?! Just try and stop me.
They can get individual cups and pour from a central jug, like they do in my church.
The hymnal law is stupid.
Maybe some priest can comment about whether it would be possible to placean unconsecrated host could be placed on a clean paper napkin in front of those who want to go to Communion and consecrate them all from the altar?????
Ping
And I thought Alberta was one of the not crazy provinces.
Robert Lowry (1860)
My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the sweet though far off hymn
That hails a new creation:
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?
Sorry,Canada...you don’t have a 1st Amendment so...deal with it.
There is no room for Alberta in the US if they act like that. Stay in Canada and complain and suffer, we don’t need that here.
I’m not a priest, but I don’t think that is possible. It would also be highly inadvisable. Too much risk for sacrilige, among other problems.
There is risk of sacrilege with Communion in hand too. I am grasping for a solution.
There’s also a doctrinal issue. Catholic teaching is that the Eucharist is not only Communion, but also sacrifice. The main part of Mass is the one Sacrifice of Christ made present on the altar in an unbloody manner and re-presented to the Father as a perfect act of worship. That’s why the priest consecrates on an altar. The laity are only required to receive Communion once a year during the Easter season, but are required to attend Mass - to be present for the Sacrifice of the altar, every Sunday and Holy Day.
In addition, I know that Catholics are not permitted to self-communicate, which is what the idea sounds like. I don’t know how to explain why this, I only know that it is so.
Wow.
Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place;
they set up their own signs for signs.
They were like those who swing axes
in a forest of trees.
And all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
They set your sanctuary on fire;
they profaned the dwelling place of your name,
bringing it down to the ground.
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
—Psalm 74
Not written to us today, per se, but same spirit operating behind the scenes!
They forgot to ban prayer.
Do you also snap your fingers while you sing, like Sinatra?
I,myself only do it when Count Basie accompanies me.
No finger snapping. Clapping.
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