I know. I don’t get out of class until 6:30 pm on every other Sunday. Saturday is out too, as I’m in class until 6:30 pm also. I just found out last night though that the college in my town (Cortland) has a chapel that our priest holds Mass at 8:00 pm on Sundays - I think I will try to make it to that one.
The Precious Blood is the term most proper to use.
Yes, it is LeMoyne college. Been there?
There are many reasons why a parish might chose intinction and it doesn’t mean the reasons are financial.
I used to attend daily Mass at a parish where intinction was the normal way of distributing Communion. The priest used an intinction set and no EMHCs.
Using intinction requires a smaller amount of wine be consecrated. This may be desirable when the number of communicants varies greatly or is unpredictable.
Also, not every country has the indult for Communion in the hand. Intinction is a very effficient manner of disributing Communion under both species when everyone is already receiving on the tongue anyway.
And some priests and others just like the idea of consuming both species at the same time rather than sequencially.
Yes, I’m coming into the thread kinda late, but I would like to point out that the church has asked that you not receive a blessing instead of receiving communion. Rather, you should stay in your pew and pray.
If it’s what the Church officially teachings, then it’s not difficult to accept (but obviously it’s hard to tell what this is in practice from seeing various different things). I will bring it past my RCIA teacher who instructed me that it was okay for me to walk up to the priest or deacon as a non-Catholic candidate, cross my arms on my chest, receive a blessing and walk back to my pew. None of them have had any difficulty blessing me.
I’m sorry. I can practically feel your frustration myself when reading about it. I can’t fix it. I know that it is even worse for you when someone who is not committed to becoming Catholic sees it, because you tend to feel at the same time responsible for it in some confused way, but also of course you have no power to change it. (At least that is how I have felt on similar occasions.)
Actually, that’s the same college I was (obliquely) referring to in my post.
Sorry.It has been my experience that Jesuit colleges are not very orthodox.
Your RCIA leader is probably just misinformed, as many people are on this issue (including myself, until a couple months ago). Honestly, I can’t blame people for not knowing, because this isn’t really well known. The problem is when people know and ignore it (I’m not saying your RCIA leader is doing this, just that some people sometimes do after hearing it).
My heart is to be faithful. Thanks for the (name removed by moderator)ut. I will certainly print it and bring it to him.
There is a liberalism in the Jesuit line, unfortunately. I have no idea where it arose but I see the result in the Jesuit college preparatory my sons have attended. I would not be shocked to see any of these things, except the woman doing the homily, as it is an all-boys’ school.
Your OP made me wince - and I hope to goodness you find a church that doesn’t include these violations.
I heard this before from an old Catholic friend, but aren’t half the priests in the world Jesuits? Isn’t it one of the most popular orders after Franciscans? When listening to Fr. Mitch Pacwa on EWTN, he doesn’t seem liberal at all and he’s Jesuit.
There has to be. What about Steubenville?
I do know that LeMoyne is loyal in the fact that they have a stance against abortion.
Well, no, the concelebration hosts are not ‘perforated’ they are scored before baking so that they are easier to break. The lines would be invisible to someone in the pews – they’re not really visible from a few feet away.
I trust you. I’m at the current moment a little frustrated with the confusion, especially with the liturgy since this is the most foreign aspect about Catholicism to me coming from a charismatic baptist protestant background, even though the Mass is the most biblical church service I’ve ever been to. But like I said in another forum, the only beef I have against the Catholic Church is myself - a sinner. If you had seen my whole life, you would probably do more than just wince. Lord have mercy.Your OP made me wince - and I hope to goodness you find a church that doesn’t include these violations.
Trust me, the Church in general is faithful and knows better than this.
No, it didn’t look like these. It looked more like a big round matza. worldofjudaica.com/oyvey/jewish-food/matzah-history/