Former SSPX Community Granted Formal Status in Catholic Church

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Traditionalism said:
More anti-tradition. Next you’re probably going to tell us that …, communion in the hand, etc…
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I am not exactly sure what you mean here…the Church has declared that there is nothing wrong with receiving communion in the hand, and it is an accepted, in fact, common practice done in MANY parts of the world with regularity.
 
Big_Feet said:
I am not exactly sure what you mean here…the Church has declared that there is nothing wrong with receiving communion in the hand, and it is an accepted, in fact, common practice done in MANY parts of the world with regularity.
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The normative manner is on the tongue, kneeling (barring any physical reason, such as age and creaky knees). CITH is an exception which has become a common practice erroneously.

I find it amazing that people go hoarse yelling about the Ordinary part of the OF, but then resort to the Extraordinary indult aspect of Communion in the hand within the Ordinary Form. Keep it normative across the board. Holy Father distributes kneeling on the tongue.
Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, has noted that kneeling is "an expression of Christian culture, which transforms the existing culture through a new and deeper knowledge and experience of God."13 He reminds us that "the word proskynein alone occurs fifty-nine times in the New Testament, twenty-four of which are in the Apocalypse, the book of the heavenly liturgy, which is presented to the Church as the standard for her own liturgy."14
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In his book The Spirit of the Liturgy, the Pope speaks of a “story that comes from the sayings of the Desert Fathers, according to which the devil was compelled by God to show himself to a certain Abba Apollo. He looked black and ugly, with frightening thin limbs, but, most strikingly, he had no knees. The inability to kneel is seen as the very essence of the diabolical.”
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In his apostolic letter Dominicae Cenae, Pope John Paul II also states: "How eloquent, therefore, even if not of ancient custom, is the rite of the anointing of the hands in our Latin ordination, as though precisely for these hands a special grace and power of the Holy Spirit is necessary. To touch the sacred species, and to distribute them with their own hands, is a privilege of the ordained, one which indicates an active participation in the ministry of the Eucharist."17
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Father John Hardon, S.J. also proclaimed, "Behind Communion in the hand — I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can — is a weakening, a conscious, deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence . . . Whatever you can do to stop Communion in the hand will be blessed by God."21 Even the great Pope John Paul II reportedly said: "There is an apostolic letter on the existence of a special valid permission for this [Communion in the hand]. But I tell you that I am not in favor of this practice, nor do I recommend it."22
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Source for above quoted portions:
catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8616
 
ringil said:
That’s unfortunate.
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Rest assured the great majority of FSSP priests dont admire Bishop Williamson. At my FSSP church, Maternal Heart of Mary, Lewisham, the laity think a lot more of Fr Rizzo than they do of Bp Williamson. (Fr Rizzos with us at the moment. 👍)
Traditionalism said:
More anti-tradition. Next you’re probably going to tell us that altar dogs are good, along with dancing, guitars, communion in the hand, etc…
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No point in lashing out and going to extremes.
Consider life expectancy.
 
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