Catholic school girl "pockets" the host

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I stepped through the glass doors feeling slightly queasy. My greatest fear: What if these people insist on saving my poor heathen soul? I soon discovered that ``these people’’ were a figment of my imagination. Instead, I met individuals of various Christian sects that shed some light into thoughts I had failed to previously articulate. To begin with, there was a general consensus among young people that religion and faith are not equal.

Religion is the candle in a red glass used to pray to St. Jude so he can solve your crisis. It’s the holy'' water in little plastic bottles and the sitting, standing and sitting again during Mass. It's the ritual that grows tedious. Indeed, one of the shoppers, 23-year-old Brittany Staffield, pointed out that in terms of religion, the more rigidity, the less appealing and the less accessible.’’

And I agree.

I also discovered that faith attracts many of these young people to Christianity. And I heard from them the resounding phrase: ``Faith is a relationship with God.’’

Tough new questions

So my conversations left me with some new questions: What is God to me? Do I have a relationship? Do I even want a relationship?

Well, . . .

I know what I don’t want: I don’t want a religion. I don’t even want to pray.

But I do believe that life has been too kind to me to completely dismiss the presence of something unfathomable. So for now, I stand in awe at the fact that even as people cry, forests are destroyed, and people stand idle at the reality of global warming, beauty, love and goodness exist somewhere.

Yes, it sounds naive, but I have seen both sides in my life. And I choose to believe in the vividness of my heartbeat after a long uphill run, in the perfection of a freshly plucked persimmon with translucent, vermilion skin, in the tenderness of a first kiss.

I’ll keep these thoughts in mind this fall as I venture into my last year at a Catholic school.

I can’t wait.
*Lisette Arellano, a student at Archbishop Mitty High School, wrote this for Mosaic, a high school journalism program sponsored in part by the Mercury News.*
 
I found the article and have reproduced it above. I contacted the Principal of the school by email stating my profound sadness at what had been reported in the Mercury and asked him to consider his duty of acknowledging this sacrilage and how he may now take steps to let the student know how the Church views such matters.

I suggest if you feel strongly enough about it you may do the same. It is a Catholic school and they need to repond to this shameful act.
 
A lot of the problem is that some of these “Catholic” schools are Catholic in name only. They are being run like a public school, and are not teaching the kids anything about the Church. Until this is stopped, this will be an ongoing problem.
 
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A.Pelliccio:
Assuming she destroyed the most precious body of our Lord Jesus Christ, this woman has already excommunicated herself by desecration of the host. She should be expelled from the school, if she refuses to recant her words and repent.

Now if we just all recieved Christ on our tounge loonies would not be able to walk off the Christ or sell him on Ebay!
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Black Masses involve the desecration of a consecrated host. They most certainly were around when Catholics were only allowed to recieve on the tongue. The priest himself- or a sacristan- could take a host from the tabernacle, someone could break into the tabernacle, or someone could let their mouth dry out before they go to Mass, hold it in their mouth long enough to get outside the church with it still intact.
 
Thank you Fergal and Elizabeth Joy for publishing the article. For anybody else who would like to write to the principal of Archbishop Mitty High School the name of the Principal is Tim Brosnan and the e-mail address is info@mitty.com Fergal, thank you for reminding us all that a “sacrilege” has been committed. Lisette, the school girl has absolutely reached the age of reason and has shown that she is a very talented writer. She could do alot of good for the church if she was directed in the right direction. Obviously, the school did not do a good job of guiding her. But the fact that she commited a sacrilege and bragged about it in a public forum she needs more than our prayers. She needs to be disciplined and I don’t think expelling her from a Catholic school would be too harsh. If I were the principal I would require her to spend two hours a day reading all the articles on Catholic Answers for the rest of the summer. If she then apologises for her sacrilege by writing another letter to the editor of the Mercury telling of her errors then and only then would I allow her back to the Catholic school.
 
The article does not state what she did with the Host?

Did she eventually consume it?

Does she still have it?

What prompted this thing to ever get published? If a Jewish teen or Muslim teen had committed a violation of their faith in such a way, would it had made the news? There is more culpability here than just the girl. How many other people were led down the wrong path with this child as her words were publicly displayed?

Charity and mercy should be first and foremost. She should be taught that even if she does not believe in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, or Christianity, then it is simply immoral and unethical, not to mention uncharitable, to violate something that is sacred to the people of those faiths.

This child has been sucked into the vacuum created by some kind of movement which places everything but God at the center of life.

At the very least, if she refuses to believe in the Real Presence, she needs to be made to understand that it should be respected.

Kindness, mercy, love, and charity showed towards this lost soul will go a long way to eventually bringing her back home be it next month or 50 years from now. There are countless stories of people who wandered, even to the occult, and then later came home. The way each and every Catholic treats this teenager who passes her will have a bearing her coming home. This includes the priests, school officials, and many others.

Jesus is more concerned with her rejection than he is with how she handled his Body in the Eucharist.

But, I would still like to understand what happend to the Host.

Let us all pray for her and for those faced with dealing with her.

Expulsion would be dependent on whether she is considered a threat to the faith of other students. But, if I were the principle, or chaplain of that school, we would be having some serious discussions whether she was to be expelled or not.
 
I just e-mailed the Archbishop Mitty principal and invited him to the Catholic Answers Liturgy forum.
Mr. Tim Brosnan, if you are reading this, there are many of us waiting for your response. Your student has disturbed many of us with her disrespect for the eucharist. We would like to know:
  1. what she did with the host after she “pocketed” it.
  2. how you plan to discipline the student
    3 how could a student who spent 3 years at your school be so anti-Catholic
 
Of course all of the above in my post should read sacrilege!! Not sacrilage. Apologies.
 
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Genesis315:
If she truly thought it was just a wafer, she wouldn’t have made such a big production out of taking it, nor would she have bragged about her scandalous act. If it was just a wafer worshipped by some religious idiots, then who cares?
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Excellent points! Somebody should write a letter to that newspaper pointing this out.
 
See, this is what bugs me about this girl. If she wants to embark on this so-called pilgrimage into finding herself or whatever the heck she’s doing, that’s none of my business. I pray that she comes home to the church someday, and soon. But she comes from a Catholic family and knows what the Eucharist means to us that believe in the Real Prescence. Why in the world would she choose to desecrate it that way. If she didn’t want to recieve communion, she could have stayed in her pew and done her little protest that way, without insulting the Catholic faith and desecrating the host.

(And what caused this break from the faith? Because the church doesn’t take a strong enough stand on environmentalism? Give me a break. Or that we don’t allow gay marriage and women priests? Did she ever look into the history of the reasons behind these doctrines -farther research than “flipping through her religion book”, too).

All in all I certainly hope for the good of her soul that she comes back to the church. I will pray for her. But I wish that she had had more consideration of others when she made this choice. 😦
 
Seatuck, thank you for posting the essay contest website. The same gal who disrespects the body and blood of our saviour and disrespects all the faithful practicing Catholics has the nerve to scold others who disrespect animal life. What she exposed in her award winning essay that you posted needed to be exposed but she does not have her priorities in order if an animal is more important than the saviour of the world.
I hope the school is not allowing this student to write about her disrespect for the teachings of the church just because she is a contest winner and therefore can be listed right up there with the vollyball champs and other champions when promoting their school. If that is the case, this Catholic school should not be considered a Catholic school but a school that allows its students to go through 3 years without learning the basics of Catholicism.
Fergal, if we were required to apologize each time we made a typo or spelling error I would be apologizing after every post. The Irish have alot of different spellings than Americans so use whatever spelling works best for you. I wish we could hear your accent 😃
 
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Fergal:
I found the article and have reproduced it above. I contacted the Principal of the school by email stating my profound sadness at what had been reported in the Mercury and asked him to consider his duty of acknowledging this sacrilage and how he may now take steps to let the student know how the Church views such matters.

I suggest if you feel strongly enough about it you may do the same. It is a Catholic school and they need to repond to this shameful act.
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This too is extra important!! If the School is a PARISH affiliated school and NOT private/independent please NOTIFY as well the PASTOR who is OVER the principal. Also, a letter to the BISHOP with a clip of the article!!
 
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onetruechurch:
I just e-mailed the Archbishop Mitty principal and invited him to the Catholic Answers Liturgy forum.
Mr. Tim Brosnan, if you are reading this, there are many of us waiting for your response. Your student has disturbed many of us with her disrespect for the eucharist. We would like to know:
  1. what she did with the host after she “pocketed” it.
  2. how you plan to discipline the student
    3 how could a student who spent 3 years at your school be so anti-Catholic
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Well put here. That says something about the school when the students, who actually represent the school as well just by attending there do this. ALL PLEASE NOTE THAT IF THIS IS A SCHOOL THAT IS AFFILIATED WITH A PARISH, THE PASTOR MUST BE NOTIFIED: SEND HM A LETTER WITH A CLIP OF THE ARTICLE. VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL TO NOTIFY THE ARCHBISHOP!!! CANON LAW STATES THAT WITH ANY DESECRATION OF THE HOST, THE BISHOP AND THE VATICAN ARE TO BE INFORMED: THE CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS: CARDINAL ARINZE’S OFFICE.
ALSO, WHERE WERE THE TEACHERS AND THE PRIEST WHO ARE TO BE LOOKING AROUND WITH EYES OF EAGLES TO MAKE SURE THIS SACRILEGE AND MOCKERY OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION DOES NOT HAPPEN?
THIS BACKS MY THEORY: THE ONLY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS REALLY CATHOLIC: THE OPUS DEI ONES. OR HOME SCHOOLING.
 
Black Masses involve the desecration of a consecrated host. They most certainly were around when Catholics were only allowed to recieve on the tongue. The priest himself- or a sacristan- could take a host from the tabernacle, someone could break into the tabernacle, or someone could let their mouth dry out before they go to Mass, hold it in their mouth long enough to get outside the church with it still intact.
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In a word ,you’re wrong about the black mass.

In order to have a black mass, you need a priest gone bad. The priest says the black mass and can consecrate his own host(s).

There isnt any need to steal any hosts, what you’ve described is a desecration and sacrilege but not a black mass.
 
She sounds to me like a bright young kid with an attitude who really knows how to pull certain people’s chains. She may half believe the well done drivel she has written, but it fails to exercise my ire. What happened to the host? Reverence and concern is a good thing but I cannot believe that Jesus is the least bit insulted by her actions. After what we did to Him on Good Friday, Him being folded away in a pocket or even being tossed in the garbage is nothing. Maybe Jack Chick can sign her up to continue his misbegotten mission.
 
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rwoehmke:
She sounds to me like a bright young kid with an attitude who really knows how to pull certain people’s chains. She may half believe the well done drivel she has written, but it fails to exercise my ire. What happened to the host? Reverence and concern is a good thing but I cannot believe that Jesus is the least bit insulted by her actions. After what we did to Him on Good Friday, Him being folded away in a pocket or even being tossed in the garbage is nothing. Maybe Jack Chick can sign her up to continue his misbegotten mission.
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Are you saying that because of Good Friday Jesus is not insulted by sacrilege? Are you teaching this to your RCIA classes? :confused: I am very confused by your post…was it supposed to be sarcastic or your honest feelings? When you mentioned Jack Chick I really got confused. Maybe this was an inside joke and I am out of the loop. Does Jack Chick advocate desecrating the host?
 
We should all try to remember to make an act of reparation to Our Blessed Lord in the Sacrament of the Altar when next we’re at church for Mass or adoration, for this offense against His Love and Majesty. We should also pray for this poor girl.
 
I guess it could be done by drying out your mouth, but i find it hard to belive. I dont have water from midnight the day before till I recieve communion in the afternoon on sunday. The Body of christ still disolves in my mouth way before the Priest says " Ite missa est."

I just think its much safer if u see someone consume the body of christ.
 
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rwoehmke:
She sounds to me like a bright young kid with an attitude who really knows how to pull certain people’s chains. She may half believe the well done drivel she has written, but it fails to exercise my ire. What happened to the host? Reverence and concern is a good thing but I cannot believe that Jesus is the least bit insulted by her actions. After what we did to Him on Good Friday, Him being folded away in a pocket or even being tossed in the garbage is nothing. Maybe Jack Chick can sign her up to continue his misbegotten mission.
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I suggest you read the New Code of Canon Law and the New Catechism of the Catholic Church if you think that what she did with the Host is “nothing.”
 
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