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Just received this today from the Fatima Center:
**Sacrilege: Consecrated Host **
Sold on EBAY
Fatima Center Urges Reparation and Protest
April 19, 2005
Fort Erie: Catholics throughout North America are stunned and outraged at the news that a consecrated Host from a 1998 Papal Mass in Rome was sold on EBAY.
The Host was posted for sale on Saturday, April 9, with a minimum bid of $100.00. The seller was a non-Catholic who reportedly lives in Sloan, Iowa.
Father Nicholas Gruner, the Director of the Fatima Center, said the modern abuse of Communion in the hand in Catholic churches made the incident possible. “Communion in the hand has always been forbidden in the Catholic Church precisely to prevent sacrilege,” Father Gruner said.
For years, Father Gruner has been in the forefront opposing Communion in the hand, and lay “Eucharistic Ministers” in his writings, speeches, and radio and television appearances.
“By the widespread practice of Communion in the hand,” says Father Gruner, “today’s Catholic churchmen give the impression that the Blessed Sacrament is merely something blessed that can be handled by anyone. It is sacrilegious, and makes it easy for corrupt persons to confiscate the Sacred Host for an evil purpose…”