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[StSteverino]

Spatulate!:

Um, which part??

Most of what you mention **is **verboten, but I leave the specifics to a poster more knowledgeable than I.

Run, don’t walk, to a real Catholic Church, and consider a letter to the bishop about the liturgical abuses taking place at the liberal church you describe.

I regularly attend a very conservative Catholic Church which fosters a culture of Adoration and prays the Angelus before Mass. The priest uses homilies to fearlessly present the church’s teaching. The Catechism is cherished and there is a great apologetics library with St Joseph Communications greatest hits, starting with Scott Hahn and company.

Still I do not want to be judgemental. But my heart tells me when I go to mass there, on rare occassions, that something is more than just a little liberal. Its nearly protestant.

I just came out of 20 yrs rebellion and if I wanted to be a protestant with catholic lite affectations, the Methodist Church I belonged to would have been fine.

A lot of faithful Catholics here feel hurt by this church. One who attempted to recieve the sacrament kneeling was publicly rebuked and told they were a pious show off.

**But still they are our brothers and sisters. **

**I won’t complain to the bishop because others have and I have my own issues to correct. **

I will just kneel when I am supposed to, kneelers or not, pray for the pastor, dip my hands in the fishbowl and bless myself and remember, God loves fools and Catholics, which is why he made so many of us.

Steve

 

[StSteverino]

bear06:

Wow! It sounds like they took RS and said let’s see if we can do everything in here listed as an abuse. There are a couple of things that don’t qualify but you’ve definitely got a rebellious pastor there. Does he actually say “This is my body”?

Actually, the pastor is a Cannon Lawyer, who in public has said that the point of Cannon Law is to find a loop hole to do what you want, so your point may be closer to the truth than you know.

I do not know why no one reads RS or takes it seriously, but every one who wants to deface a Catholic Church and rip its altars and statuary out, acts like Vatican II mandated desacralization and iconoclasm along ultra John Knox presbyterian sensiblities.

 

[StSteverino]

MeaCulpa:

I do not mean to be nit picking but this is an incorrect term - only priests and Bishops are Eucharistic Ministers because only they can confect the Eucharist. This was recently addressed in Redemptionis Sacramentum and emphasis made that this term was not to be used to describe lay persons.

Priests, Bishops, and Deacons who distribute communion are referred to as Ordinary Ministers of Holy Communion.

Thank you. Slip on my part. I knew better. See how quickly error seeps into the weak and impressionable.

 

[StSteverino]

JimG:

Is the crockpot intended to take the place of a ciborium, or heaven forbid, the tabernacle?

It took the place of the chalice. They seem to have this agape feast idea in mind and the idea of feeding is cute, keep it homey. No one respects the tabernacle, except visitors who get upset with the way kids run around and act out in front of it with out any instruction on its specialness. Few members make the sign of the cross and only visitors genuflect.

And what does he do with the part of the consecrated Host that remains after Mass?

I do not know, but others have noticed this and wondered whats up. I do not want to engage in tawdry speculation, but it is not normal and I feel troubled. Beyond that, I can’t say and I can not even be certain anything improper is going on.

 

[George2]

To my knowledge only priests and deacons may give homilies at the mass.

If that is true, I would write to your bishop. If he does not answer, I would request an audience. If he does not respond to that request, I would write to Rome.

I have no idea how a non-Catholic may be a eucharistic minister. That sounds like a clear liturgical abuse.