Pope uses Communion Rail

[I_Believe]

. I think the Holy Father knows exactly what he is doing. Maybe the new spring time is finally arriving. It has been a long cold winter.

Bank on it brother !

Don’t forget what he asked of us at his inaugural Mass…

“Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.”

vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20050424_inizio-pontificato_en.html

 

[Timothysis]

It is not the same. When you use a communion rail you are humbling yourself before God. If “every knee should bend at the name of Jesus” don’t you think we should **kneel **in his presence?

It may be “pomp and circumstance” to you but not to traditional Catholics.

This reminds me of the thread about Latin. The guy there is absolutely certain that everyone should speak and pray in Latin, regardless of other opinions. You? You are absolutely certain that everyone should receive communion kneeling. It’s an opinion and everyone has one.

BTW, the little “traditional Catholics” comment gives you away.

 

[ethelzguy]

I can only imagine utter terror sweeping through the more progressive of our posters here at the thought of kneeling to receive rather than standing. And on the tongue as well:bigyikes:

Of course there will be some rationalization by them, perhaps the people weren’t really kneeling or perhaps it was a special group that had applied for and received permission from the Holy See for this or maybe the whole thing is a fabrication. Thats it a fabrication by the traditionalists to try to make a point.

Of course there is the homily as well, but maybe that was a fabrication as well.

But I don’t think so. I think the Holy Father knows exactly what he is doing. Maybe the new spring time is finally arriving. It has been a long cold winter.

Or, just another example of folks overscrutinizing every little thing the Pope does, so as to extrapolate some agenda from said movement.

 

[I_Believe]

Or, just another example of folks overscrutinizing every little thing the Pope does, so as to extrapolate some agenda from said movement.

You can’t stop the wind from pushing our sails. Not when it is the breath of the Holy Ghost.

You are persistent, I’ll give you that. Your continual poo pooing of the hope this Pope brings to traditionalists reminds me of a quote.

“The media have no idea what a real Catholic is. If they did, they would scream for his martyrdom, they would scream for his skin.”
-H.E. Bishop Williamson, 2005

Just substitute the word “liberals” for the word “media”…

 

[I_Believe]

As I’ve said time and time again, those who fear the return of traditional catholicism, dare not attack the traditionalists in the Curia. But they waste no time attacking those who follow their lead. Makes sense. Easy, user friendly catholicism. Easy targets.

It’s blatantly obvious.

You know, it’s funny how before Pope BXVI was elected, trads didn’t have a lot to draw on from Rome. So it was easy to see how trads may be wrong, scrupulous, disobedient. Schismatic was an arguably proper term in some cases.

But now that there is obvious indication that our Holy Father shares some of the trad’s concerns, as do some in the Curia, perhaps we are seeing a new breed of “schismatics”.

Thoughts ?

 

[ethelzguy]

You can’t stop the wind from pushing our sails. Not when it is the breath of the Holy Ghost.

.

And, you are qualified to say that, implying that the breath of the Holy Spirit was not pushing the sails of Vatican II?

What are your credentials to make such a determination?

 

[ethelzguy]

You are persistent, I’ll give you that. Your continual poo pooing of the hope this Pope brings

I’m not poo pooing the hope of the Pope…what I am poo pooing is this constant obsession with watching his every move and action, as if it implies some change in the Order of the Church.

 

[Our_Refuge]

=Timothysis;3726664]This reminds me of the thread about Latin. The guy there is absolutely certain that everyone should speak and pray in Latin, regardless of other opinions. You?

You are absolutely certain that everyone should receive communion kneeling

. It’s an opinion and everyone has one.

Yes, I am absolutely certain.

BTW, the little “traditional Catholics” comment gives you away.

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And you are what? A " progressive "’ Catholic?

 

[I_Believe]

And, you are qualified to say that, implying that the breath of the Holy Spirit was not pushing the sails of Vatican II?

What are your credentials to make such a determination?

I don’t need credentials to embrace what I hear from the pulpit or what I read from a Catholic news agency that Members of the Curia gladly release statements to.

I heard a Redemptorist Missionary speak on the crisis we are in. He began with the introduction of the NO, and spoke of how many Catholics rejected it. He touched on other issues as well. IHO, the crisis is a test of our Faith as Catholics. So that is how I view the RESULT of VII. If I am a Catholic, I must accept that the Holy Ghost was indeed presiding over the Council.

The homily I heard yesterday by a priest I consider a Saint, could have been written by a sede, a SSPX priest, an Independent priest, or even a Feeneyite. But it came from a priest in full communion with Rome, and was delivered from the pulpit of a diocean parish.

Both the Redemptorist and the Holy Priest I mention, spoke their words in the same church. A diocean church.

I’m getting all of this food for my soul from Rome and those in communion with it. I’m ok with that. Why aren’t you ?

 

[ethelzguy]

I don’t need credentials to embrace what I hear from the pulpit or what I read from a Catholic news agency that Members of the Curia gladly release statements to.

I heard a Redemptorist Missionary speak on the crisis we are in. He began with the introduction of the NO, and spoke of how many Catholics rejected it. He touched on other issues as well. IHO, the crisis is a test of our Faith as Catholics. So that is how I view the RESULT of VII. If I am a Catholic, I must accept that the Holy Ghost was indeed presiding over the Council.

The homily I heard yesterday by a priest I consider a Saint, could have been written by a sede, a SSPX priest, an Independent priest, or even a Feeneyite. But it came from a priest in full communion with Rome, and was delivered from the pulpit of a diocean parish.

Both the Redemptorist and the Holy Priest I mention, spoke their words in the same church. A diocean church.

I’m getting all of this food for my soul from Rome and those in communion with it. I’m ok with that. Why aren’t you ?

What seems to get lost here, is that those of us who are content and happy in the post-Vatican II Church get our “food for our souls” from Rome as well. Spiritual guidance from Rome isn’t the exclusive domain of the pre-V2 crowd.

 

[Timothysis]

Yes, I am absolutely certain.
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And you are what? A " progressive "’ Catholic?

No sir. I am a Catholic. Not a “traditionalist,” not a “progressive,” not a “liberal,” but a Catholic.

Once again we see the arrogance of the “traditional”-minded Catholics who think they know better, pray better and understand better than anyone else.

 

[ProVobis]

I tried not to post here but it now looks like the progressives have managed to derail another thread that sounded for a while to be a friendly discussion, this time on communion rails. So I guess the conflict continues…

 

[Timothysis]

I tried not to post here but it now looks like the progressives have managed to derail another thread that sounded for a while to be a friendly discussion, this time on communion rails. So I guess the conflict continues…

Oh yes, and as always, the “traditionalists” are the victims…

 

[TMGallyon85]

Well it is called “traditional catholicism”

 

[Timothysis]

Well it is called “traditional catholicism”

You modernist, you!

 

[SJP]

I tried not to post here but it now looks like the progressives have managed to derail another thread that sounded for a while to be a friendly discussion, this time on communion rails. So I guess the conflict continues…

I’m glad that I’m not the only one who has noticed this.

 

[Walking_Home]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ProVobis View Post
I tried not to post here but it now looks like the progressives have managed to derail another thread that sounded for a while to be a friendly discussion, this time on communion rails. So I guess the conflict continues…

I’m glad that I’m not the only one who has noticed this.

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I second that.