Cardinal Sarah: Widespread Communion in the hand is part of Satan’s attack on

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LifeSiteNews has their…detractors… but I’m a bit anxious and nervous about this.

I confessed to my priest that I have anxiety over Communion in the hand versus on the tongue (I have this fear that the Host will fall to the ground if I awkwardly tried to partake on the tongue - so I receive the Eucharist in the hand - I know, scruples.) . I was assured that the supreme authority of the Church allows Communion in the hand…but now I’m anxious again.

Is it really an attack by Satan to receive in the hand? Have I offended God by receiving improperly? How could the Church Magisterium allow that which is offensive at the highest authority? Is Cardinal Sarah wrong?
 
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Is it really an attack by Satan to receive in the hand? Have I offended God by receiving improperly? How could the Church Magisterium allow that which is offensive at the highest authority? Is Cardinal Sarah wrong?
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With all due respect to Cardinal Sarah – and I do have great respect for him – if he said this, it is his personal opinion.
To say that you have offended God by receiving in a way allowed by the Church is to say that the Church has no authority in this area. Is that what you really think?
 
Whether or not the Church authorities acted prudently in allowing CITH is a separate question from it being licit for the faithful to make use of that permission.

Be at peace.
 
I believe the Holy Spirit would not allow error to be taught with the weight of the Magisterium.
 
Receiving tbe Holy Spirit is the most important thing. On hand, on tongue, does not matter. Dont be fooled by false messages or beliefs
 
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The lack of consistency makes me troubled…
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I’m not sure I understand. Lack of consistency between Cardinal Sarah and Church practice? In that case, we should be following the Church, not someone’s personal opinion.
 
Whatever we can do to increase reverence for the Blessed Sacrament is great in my opinion. I truly hope Cardinal Sarah is the next pope!
 
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Is it really an attack by Satan to receive in the hand? Have I offended God by receiving improperly? How could the Church Magisterium allow that which is offensive at the highest authority? Is Cardinal Sarah wrong?
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Cardinal Sarah is a very knowledgeable and generally spiritual guy, but he is human, and I think he occasionally gets carried away. This is one of those moments I think that.
 
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Maybe I’m thinking too black and white. It’s irreverent/offensive or not. The article mentioned that receiving in the hand discourages belief in the Real Presence. I don’t quite follow that logic… :sigh: I hate confusion…
 
I would like to read Cardinal Sarah’s entire preface to Bortoli’s book. I have a suspicion that short quotations have been selected and misrepresented in order to push the agenda. Each quotation on its own seems plausible, but when put together in the headline, it seems outrageous. Typical LifeSite headline-craft?
 
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Pardon me… At the bottom of the article, there appears “a LifeSiteNews translation of several key extracts from Cardinal Sarah’s text” which may address my concerns.
Update, after reading all of the key extracts provided at the end of the article:
Food for thought. Cardinal Sarah has some good points. However, my suspicion is confirmed that the headline cobbles together phrases in a way that grossly misrepresents what Cardinal Sarah wrote.

It’s click-bait journalism.
 
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Keep speaking the Truth Cardinal Sarah! I have definitely seen an increase in the number of people who receive kneeling and on the tongue. He and Bishop Athanasius Schneider are truly making a difference for the good of the Church. One thing for sure about Cardinal Sarah he ain’t gonna back down from the liberals. He is one tough dude.
 
yankeesouth said:
Keep speaking the Truth Cardinal Sarah! I have definitely seen an increase in the number of people who receive kneeling and on the tongue. He and Bishop Athanasius Schneider are truly making a difference for the good of the Church. One thing for sure about Cardinal Sarah he ain’t gonna back down from the liberals. He is one tough dude.
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"In approaching therefore, come not with your wrists extended, or your fingers spread; but make your left hand a throne for the right, as for that which is to receive a King. And having hollowed your palm, receive the body of Christ, saying over it, “Amen.” So then, after having carefully hallowed your eyes by the touch of the holy body, partake of it; giving heed lest you lose any portion thereof; for whatever you lose, is evidently a loss to you as it were from one of your own members (21). " - Cyril of Jerusalem, 386 AD

Those darn liberals back in 386 AD, what were they thinking? Good thing you’re gonna nip that innovation in the bud. 😌
 
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How did the apostles received their Communion? At the Last Supper, did Jesus give them on the tongue?
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I think the Church is great that it can adjust to the times without compromising on dogma.
At different times throughout history there are different needs.
So obviously there was a time when outward reverence is very important for a time when there are a lot of uneducated people so they need to understand the mysteries of real presence by the actions.
In today’s time are people educated enough to know that just because you are receiving on the hand then somehow that’s less reverent or changes the meaning of communion? If one thinks we really have gone back to those times in the past then perhaps we really should go back to tongue only.
 
I’m with you there. The early Church didn’t seem to have much of a problem with belief in the Real Presence, and yet there is ample evidence that Communion in the hand was the norm. Fr. Robert Taft, in his encyclopedic History of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, has a four-page footnote demonstrating that this form of receiving Communion was the norm.

In general, I wouldn’t trust LifeSite. Far too many times I’ve seen them quote priests, bishops, and even the pope out of context in order to serve their own agenda.__
 
Just to add to the discussion. I was told that the switch was made to receiving communion on the tongue back in the day (not sure when), because people were becoming too extreme in their reverence for the host, and were taking it home and building little adoration chapels for it, rather than consuming it.

It was seriously getting out of hand (no pun intended) so in order to make sure people were following Christ’s command to eat it, the priests started sticking it right in the person’s mouth.

This goes to show you how piety can go off the rails.
 
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