"Passing the Communion Basket"

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Seen in the announcements on the website for St. Frances Cabrini parish in Minneapolis:
**REGARDING COMMUNION, **Mass Coordinators & the Liturgy Committee have been looking at ways to see that any remaining Eucharistic Bread is reverently consumed, as the Communion Rite concludes. In recent months we have tried doing this immediately after the Communion procession, as was the practice at Newman, & suggested by two of our Mass Coordinators. As the basket is passed, you may help with the consuming the Eucharist, or pass it on. No words are needed at this point.

cabrinimn.org/announce.htm
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:bigyikes: Yikes!

The only good thing about this (an even worse thing actually…) is that they use communion bread that is, as they announce at Mass itself, “completely wheat-free” and therefore, according to *Redemptionis Sacramentum #48,*invalid and therefore it isn’t actually Communion that they are being so careless with…

(The reason I looked this place up is that a friend of mine went to Mass there and reported to me that for Communion they used a “loaf of bread that people just ripped hunks off of, and they also said that the bread was completely wheat-free”… Lord have mercy! :banghead: )

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Oh how my heart hurts on reading this great travesty…😦

Fergal
Naas
Ireland
 
Whenever I see something like this I actually slap my forehead and go “No!!!” --I’m not sure if I’m glad it’s not Jesus they are passing around so irreverantly or not! The saddest part about something like this is that most of them have NO IDEA that that isn’t valid matter. They probably don’t even know what valid matter is.

I went on a vacation with my Dad and a priest once, and as we were eating at McDonalds, he told us a “Communion Horror Story”–as he calls them–

A priest trying to keep up with the times and appeal to the youth “consecrated” Chocolate Cake and Coca-Cola.

I really hope, though, that that is a “Catholic Urban Legend”

In Him, through her,
Pio Magnus
 
Wow, that parish looks like it can give a few others I know a run for ‘wackiest parish’ in God’s Creation.

Has Archbishop Flynn been made aware of this ‘announcement’?
 
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PioMagnus:
A priest trying to keep up with the times and appeal to the youth “consecrated” Chocolate Cake and Coca-Cola.

I really hope, though, that that is a “Catholic Urban Legend”

In Him, through her,
Pio Magnus
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Cardinal Arinze mentioned such rumored abuses when he released Redemptionis Sacramentum. He did describe several cases as only rumored. He prayed that was the case.
 
I wrote to them and told them to stop. If you click on the link already provided you can write to them as well. I suggest we do that. Inundate them with e-mail. MAYBE they’ll get the message.
 
**When I went to the site, I found this notice…What a parish!:rolleyes: **
<<<AN ENNEAGRAM WORKSHOP will be presented by Anne Mureé on Sept. 11, 2004, at the home of Marlene Locascio (St. Louis Park). If you missed the follow-up from the retreat earlier this spring, call Marlene by August 25. Time will be 8:30 am-4:30 pm. The cost, which includes lunch, will be $45. All are welcome.>>>
 
A parody of the Mass was held in the newly renovated San Fernando Cathedral - the oldest cathedral in the US - on April 29, 2003 when a ceremony honoring the pagan goddess Sophia was celebrated as part of an ecumenical event for Catholics and representatives of varius Protestant groups sponsored by the Pastoral Summit. Though the chief “celebrant” of this pagan liturgy was a nun, Sr. Martha Ann Kirk, the liturgy was “created” by Fr. Jake Emperereur, S.J., vicar and liturgist at the cathedral.

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A jubilant Sister Martha Ann Kirk bringing the bread to the altar.
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Sr. Kirk holding up the bread. Offertory meal
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Thank you for sharing that link.
I have emailed the office asking for clarification on that announcement, and asking what matter they use for their “wheat free” hosts.
Their response will be most interesting.
 
If I was there I would go up to that nun and say " Getoutof here. This is the House of God!!! Begone Pagans!!! This is the House of God,the God of Jacob,Abraham, and Isaac. This is the House of Jesus Christ,The Incarnate Word,Son of God,was crucified,died, and buried for us!!! Leave Now !! Begone Pagan!! In the Name of the Most Holy Triune God and the Blessed Virgin Mary Leave this place!!!"

Well that is what I would do if I could!!!
 
I looked at the front page of that place.

IO’ve heard of them, or a neighboring “community” before.

They are wacko New Age.
 
Catholic Eagle:
If I was there I would go up to that nun and say " Getoutof here. This is the House of God!!! Begone Pagans!!! This is the House of God,the God of Jacob,Abraham, and Isaac. This is the House of Jesus Christ,The Incarnate Word,Son of God,was crucified,died, and buried for us!!! Leave Now !! Begone Pagan!! In the Name of the Most Holy Triune God and the Blessed Virgin Mary Leave this place!!!"

Well that is what I would do if I could!!!
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A bullwhip would also add a nice Biblical touch. 🙂
 
Well obviously self-communicating is not considered wrong by them either.

Writing to them won’t help probably but maybe writing to the Bishop and sending a copy of that notice along might.

It seems hard to understand how a parish like that can coexist in the same town as St. Agnes, doesn’t it?
 
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Brendan:
Has Archbishop Flynn been made aware of this ‘announcement’?
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:rolleyes: Does it matter?
He’s busy with other important things! :yawn:

Anna
 
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Brendan:
Wow, that parish looks like it can give a few others I know a run for ‘wackiest parish’ in God’s Creation.

Has Archbishop Flynn been made aware of this ‘announcement’?
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 This is the same archdiocese that is home to St. Joan of Arc, the parish that substitutes non-biblical passages for the Bible in the First Reading, among a host of other things. St. Frances Cabrini now makes two parishes there that grossly deviate from the liturgical norms. :crying: 

 With people writing bishops every day about liturgical abuses, I would be surprised if the Archbishop didn't know about both of these places.  What is going on in Minnesota?
St. Joan of Arc, pray for us. St. Frances Cabrini, pray for us.

-Illini
 
I still think it would be a good idea to write the bishop of that diocese and request some clarification.

If we were travelling and had to attend one of these Masses, we’d be devastated. The faithful are being deprived of a True Liturgy.

And it is the duty of the bishop to safeguard the Church’s liturgy in his diocese.

So, probably he does know and has done nothing. But there are steps we can take to put his feet to the fire.

And I think the Church has told us that it is our duty to do so.

So, please, document these things and write him, keeping copies of all correspondence, so that if need be, the papal nuncio be notified. Let’s help clean up our Church.

The pen is mightier than the bullwhip!
 
Here is a start:

I wonder if anyone would be willing to draft a letter that would list the liturgical abuses suggested in the website, and post it here, so that we might copy and paste it, sign and send it to both the pastor and the archbishop?
I do think that they need to be approached by the faithful on this serious matter, no matter where we live! We are all members of the One Body ~ The Mystical Body of Christ.

Letters or emails should be sent to ~

St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Community
1500 Franklin Avenue SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Pastor: Fr. Leo Tibesar

office@cabrinimn.org

Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
226 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55102

Archbishop Harry J. Flynn
communications@archspm.org

(By the way, did y’all notice the heavy emphasis on encouraging the faithful to become active in becoming consciencious objectors? Hello, there is no draft!
Aren’t they instilling a sense of fear and distrust of government in their congregation? The emphasis might better be on trusting God.
This activism seems to go beyond Church Teaching, into political propogandizing based on someone’s opinion.
Surely, there are many Catholics serving in the military ~ including Catholic chaplains. To serve in the military is not a sin.)
 
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