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Diocese mandating Communion in hand due to epidemic Traditional Catholicism
Excerpt from the new guidelines:
Article 2.11
The clergy and extraordinary ministers of the Holy Communion will distribute Communion to the faithful before taking Communion for themselves, lest their saliva be passed to the faithful.
Article 2.12
The clergy and extraordinary ministers of the Holy Communion should wear surgical masks when distributing Communion. They may also omit the reminder of “Corpus Christi”, and the receiver of Holy Communion may omit the response of “Amen”.
I’ve never heard before, that “Corpus Christi” and “Amen” were meant to be mere “reminders and responses”. I’ve been taught that it was a confession of faith to the real presence before receiving Jesus. We have already gone from “Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam æternam” to “Corpus Christi” in 1969; and now we’re going from “Corpus Christi” to nothing at all. How effective would that be in preventing disease spreading? I am afraid there lies hidden agenda behind this “anti-epidemic pastoral guidelines”.
They have not even asked for an indult from the Holy See before making these changes that deviate from the requirements in the IGRM and reminders in the Redemtpionis Sacramentum. Now I feel like in the Diocese, the Apostolic Administrator is being his own Pope Francis, and the President of the Liturgy Comittee is being his own Cardinal Sarah.
For Chinese version of the updated pastoral guidelines, refer to this website:
I have emailed the Apostolic Administrator and the President of the Diocesan Liturgy Committee over my concern. Yet before they have likely read my mail, a set of updated pastoral guidelines was posted, pushing more ridiculous rules, after the government has raised the 3-tier response level from Level 2 to Level 3.
Excerpt from the new guidelines:
Article 2.11
The clergy and extraordinary ministers of the Holy Communion will distribute Communion to the faithful before taking Communion for themselves, lest their saliva be passed to the faithful.
Article 2.12
The clergy and extraordinary ministers of the Holy Communion should wear surgical masks when distributing Communion. They may also omit the reminder of “Corpus Christi”, and the receiver of Holy Communion may omit the response of “Amen”.
I’ve never heard before, that “Corpus Christi” and “Amen” were meant to be mere “reminders and responses”. I’ve been taught that it was a confession of faith to the real presence before receiving Jesus. We have already gone from “Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam æternam” to “Corpus Christi” in 1969; and now we’re going from “Corpus Christi” to nothing at all. How effective would that be in preventing disease spreading? I am afraid there lies hidden agenda behind this “anti-epidemic pastoral guidelines”.
They have not even asked for an indult from the Holy See before making these changes that deviate from the requirements in the IGRM and reminders in the Redemtpionis Sacramentum. Now I feel like in the Diocese, the Apostolic Administrator is being his own Pope Francis, and the President of the Liturgy Comittee is being his own Cardinal Sarah.
For Chinese version of the updated pastoral guidelines, refer to this website: