Cardinal Sarah: return to Communion directly on the tongue while kneeling

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Not everyone is able to kneel.

I do think receiving on the tongue is the correct way. I used to use my hand but i feel so unworthy to hold the Body and Blood of Jesus on my hand.
 
No, Protestants of today are not heretics. Technically or otherwise.
 
They subscribe to heretical beliefs, ergo, they’re heretics.

In the interest of ecumenicalism it’s been decided best not to tout that, but that doesn’t make it untrue.

Now, individuals who have not been exposed to the truth have diminished guilt, but heretical beliefs are still heretical beliefs. Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, the rejection of papal authority, and the denial of the Real Presence in the Eucharist are all heresies.
 
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Exactly my thought
I’m uncomfortable sticking my tongue out. My tongue is private to me, doctor, my dentist and hygienist. 😳
Some can’t get down on knees and up again.
 
This is not what the Church teaches. No one who has been born and raised in the Protestant faith can be a heretic.
 
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The tongue is part of the erogenous zone. Perhaps that is why I like to keep it in my mouth and not expose it.
 
Your tongue is known to God. Why worry about anything else? You are not there to worry about how you look!
 
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I guess if “separated bretheren” makes you feel better you can pretend it doesn’t mean the same thing.
 
JimG said:
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“The liturgy is made up of many small rituals and gestures — each of them is capable of expressing these attitudes filled with love, filial respect and adoration toward God. That is precisely why it is appropriate to promote the beauty, fittingness and pastoral value of a practice which developed during the long life and tradition of the Church, that is, the act of receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and kneeling. The greatness and nobility of man, as well as the highest expression of his love for his Creator, consists in kneeling before God. Jesus himself prayed on his knees in the presence of the Father.”
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Okay, if we are going to model how we ought to receive Holy Communion from what is written in the Holy Gospels, then we ought to model it on how our Lord Jesus gave and distributed Holy Communion the first time during the Last Supper.

Yes, our Lord Jesus prayed to his Father on his knees, but He distributed Holy Communion to his disciples while they were all seated around the table.
 
Don’t patronize me. You are wrong. It is not possible for a Protestant today, who was born and raised in their own faith to be a heretic.

Maybe, you should learn the meaning of words before you throw them around
 
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JanSobieskiIII said:
They subscribe to heretical beliefs, ergo, they’re heretics.
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A lot of beliefs are “heresies” but it doesn’t make the people holding them “heretics”. Islam and shinto and krishna consciousness are all technically heresies too, but we don’t call those folks heretics.

The term “heretic” is usually just reserved for Roman Catholics who hold one heretical belief or another.
 
Augustinian said:
Islam and shinto and krishna consciousness are all technically heresies too, but we don’t call those folks heretics.
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That’s technically apostasy, not heresy, as it is a total departure from the Christian faith.
 
CilladeRoma said:
Don’t patronize me. You are wrong. It is not possible for a Protestant today, who was born and raised in their own faith to be a heretic.
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Why? I’m not trying to be a jerk, I honestly don’t see why not. Some Protestants do not believe in the Trinity. None accept the authority of the Pope.
 
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In order to be a heretic, one must first know the truth, then reject it. Martin Luther was a heretic, as we’re his first followers. A person born into a Lutheran family today is not denying the Catholic faith, therefore cannot be a heretic.
 
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CilladeRoma said:
In order to be a heretic, one must first know the truth, then reject it. Martin Luther was a heretic, as we’re his first followers. A person born into a Lutheran family today is not denying the Catholic faith, therefore cannot be a heretic.
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Thanks.

My aunt is a Lutheran and can’t stand the Catholic faith. But I see where you’re coming from now:

Roman Catholic Church. a baptized Roman Catholic who willfully and persistently rejects any article of faith.

HERETIC Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

HERETIC definition: a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by their church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church. See examples of heretic used in a sentence.
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Mattapoisett64 said:
A Sarah papacy would make me fearful of a return to other past ways, such as Protestants as “heretics,” Jews as “perfidious,” and “mixed marriages” performed in rectory parlors.
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Me, too, and I don’t want that.
 
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