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Delaware Bishop Kevin Brown said bishops in his discussion group expressed “a strong reluctance to be going anywhere near virtual Eucharist.” Fond du Lac Bishop Matthew Gunter said he was open to “a really good conversation about virtual Communion” but didn’t think it was appropriate to encourage congregations to experiment.
Such an approach “could quickly get out of control and do some significant damage,” Long Island Bishop Lawrence Provenzano said. “This was feeling like an attempt at a long-term change in sacramental theology for what we are experiencing as the short-term shifts that have had to happen because of the pandemic.”
Not sure that’s the point of this topic.To be fair
I understood everything except “überleben”.Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Augenkommunion zu überleben.
Edit: I realised my little joke was far too obscure. ‘Virtual communion’ is sometimes called ‘ocular communion’, which in German is Augenkommunion. A German friend was relating to me some of the (very!) unusual musings amongst German liturgists on the topic, and he made the above joke. It’s an adaptation of the caption beneath the Berlin Wall mural of Brezhnev and Hoenecker kissing: ‘My God, save me from this deadly attraction’.
You know, honest to God I never understood that idea since I started hearing it in Covid times. If you can just have “spiritual communion”, why do you need physical communion?There already is a “virtual Eucharist”, and it’s entirely orthodox. It’s called “spiritual communion”. I use it all the time.
Actual, corporeal communion is needed because Our Lord mandated it, and because only the actual Eucharist can confer ex opere operato graces. Spiritual communion is the next best thing, and Our Lord can dispense grace however and wherever He will. But, admittedly, it’s not “the real thing”.HomeschoolDad:
You know, honest to God I never understood that idea since I started hearing it in Covid times. If you can just have “spiritual communion”, why do you need physical communion?There already is a “virtual Eucharist”, and it’s entirely orthodox. It’s called “spiritual communion”. I use it all the time.
Ah, so they are not the same in Catholic thinking. I thought they were. Thanks for clarifying.only the actual Eucharist can confer ex opere operato graces. Spiritual communion is the next best thing
Although the topic is Episcopalian, there is a difference between spiritual communion and Real Presence. Spiritual communion is a Christian practice of desiring union in which the full benefit of an increase of sanctifying grace and of sacramental grace, may not be received through it.…
You know, honest to God I never understood that idea since I started hearing it in Covid times. If you can just have “spiritual communion”, why do you need physical communion?
1390 Since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace. …