Eucharist

[OraLabora]

Open your eyes.

They are wide open. The ordinary of where I attend Mass on Sunday, the very orthodox abbot of a Benedictine monastery, specifies communion on the hand while standing for his community, and allows it for the faithful in attendance, while at the same time accommodating those who want to kneel and/or receive on the tongue. All in accordance with accepted practice from Rome, and all within his authority to decide such matters within his community and his conventual church.

Any preference within an area that allows the choice is a matter of personal opinion, and to debate the choice here almost always results in people talking past each other and reducing to insults. This does not serve Christ and His Church.

Should Rome dictate otherwise, I will be the first to line up in obedience as per my oblate promise. Until then I’ll gladly exercise my personal choice without debating it nor insulting others who do not see it my way.

With that said, I’m out before this thread goes off the rails.

 

[Sirach2]

I doubt Rome was given much choice in the matter of communion in the hand, as well as many others. Rome puts up with it but that’s about it. In fact the US Bishops tried to do away with anything BUT the reception of communion in the hand while standing which Rome rejected; their website even states that the order came from Rome.
All one needs to is look at Papal Masses offered as a guide. Roma loctua est indeed. Open your eyes.

You are conveying an erroneous version, most probably based on your own personal preference. Do you suggest that Rome “caved?” And do you want us to believe that the USCCB strove to enforce CITH - ONLY- with standing? Not so, and I do not find any such reference on their website, other than to link to the GIRM, which allows for both.

While your profile avatar portrays an allegiance to BXVI who preferred to distribute the Eucharist kneeling with COTH, that is not the case with Pope Francis. You need to be careful about those inaccurate statements here. Each Pope, as is also true of the laity, is entitled to his own preference of celebrating. I never agreed with BXVI going counter to the permissions in the GIRM, for it gave rise to traditionalists to say, See there?!! (As you have done with “Roma loctua est”) It was, IMO, a poor example of not aligning himself with the mind of the Church, but preferring his own bias.

 

[Sirach2]

While your profile avatar portrays an allegiance to BXVI who preferred to distribute the Eucharist kneeling with COTH, that is not the case with Pope Francis.

My mistake. I meant kneeling with COTT. Communion on the tongue.