Smitty,
Just because someone asserts that something is so you believe it off the cuff? C’mon!
I’ve seen enough. The fact is that the junk they are decrying is the very same trash that all of us hate. BUT! They make it sound like it’s everywhere and it’s NOT. Does it go on at your church? Doesn’t happen at mine!
Yes, there are some folks out there who have lost their minds (and maybe their souls) by some of the foolishness that they’ve done, but they are small in number compared to the parishes where things are being done right.
I have had so many discussions with one of my friends who is all hung up in that stuff, but like I told him, those abuses are not nearly as widespread as these people make them out to be.
Furthermore, do you want the Mass back in Latin all over the world? Why? Yeah, it’s nice and all, but I grew up with it and frankly I am more deeply moved by the Mass In English. If I want a Latin Mass, I know here to go to find one but it’s just not that important to me. The problems they have with the sacraments, again are not as wide spread as they allege. Do you have a problem with taking communion in your hand? Why? That’s the way the apostles took it as well as the early church. From the
CA Library
Communion may be received either in the hand or on the tongue. Around the year A.D. 390, Cyril of Jerusalem indicated that the early Church practiced Communion in the hand when he instructed his audience: “Approaching, therefore, come not with thy wrists extended, or thy fingers open; but make thy left hand as if a throne for thy right, which is on the eve of receiving the King. And having hallowed thy palm, receive the body of Christ, saying after it, ‘Amen.’ Then after thou hast with carefulness hallowed thine eyes by the touch of the holy body, partake thereof; giving heed lest thou lose any of it; for what thou losest is a loss to thee as it were from one of thine own members. For tell me, if anyone gave thee gold dust, wouldst thou not with all precaution keep it fast, being on thy guard against losing any of it, and suffering loss?” (Catechetical Lectures 23:22).
The Congregation of the Sacraments and Divine Worship permitted the U.S. Bishops’ Conference to authorize reception of Communion in the hand on July 25, 1977, provided the local bishop implements the practice in his diocese. Once implemented, the option to receive Communion either in the hand or on the tongue always remains with the communicant. No priest, deacon, acolyte, or extraordinary minister of Holy Communion may refuse a communicant Communion on the tongue. Likewise, once the local bishop has introduced Communion in the hand, none may refuse a communicant Communion in the hand (except when Communion is being given by intinction, in which case it must be given on the tongue).
Finally, after you have received Communion, it is appropriate to stay after Mass and thank Jesus for coming to you in the Holy Eucharist. The Church mandates that: “The faithful are to be recommended not to omit to make a proper thanksgiving after Communion. They may do this during the celebration with a period of silence, with a hymn, psalm or other song of praise, or also after the celebration, if possible by staying behind to pray for a suitable time” (Inaestimabile Donum 17).
After receiving Jesus into one’s own body and being drawn more closely into his, how could one do any less? Do I want to go back to the Pre Vat II way of doing things? No thank you.
Pax tecum,
BTW, if you are so faithful a Catholic, why does your webpage tell your astrological sign since the church discourages such things?
