Cardinal Arinze: we cannot share Communion with non-Catholics like beer or cake

[mdgspencer]

see http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/new...mmunion-with-non-catholics-like-beer-or-cake/

“Holy Communion is exclusively for Catholics in a state of grace and not something to be shared between friends like beer or cake, said a former senior adviser to two popes.”

The mass is not an ecumenical service, he said. It is a celebration of the faith community, of those “who are communicating in the faith, and in the sacraments, and in ecclesiastical communion… ecclesiastical unity with their pastor, their bishop and the Pope.”

 

[BartholomewB]

There’s already a thread on this subject, started the day before yesterday:

Cdl. Arinze: Stop Intercommunion Catholic News

The Mass “is not an ecumenical service,” it is rather “a celebration of the mysteries of Christ who died for us on the cross, who made bread into [H]is body and wine into [H]is blood and told the apostles ‘do this in memory of me,’” insisted Arinze. “The eucharistic celebration of the Mass is the celebration of the faith community — those who believe in Christ, they are communicating in the [F]aith, and in the sacraments, and in … ecclesiastical unity with their pastor, their bishop and the…