Received communion from a girl wearing ripped tights

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These are not abuses. Everything that you don’t like is not an abuse.
Th priest/pastor and or Bishop het to dwcide on the use of EMHC, not the laity.

If you have issues, please take them up with your Pastor, but do not accuse him or anyone who is an EMHC of abuse.
 
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I agree with that. My parish has strict dress code (no shorts, t-shirts, jeans for men; no low cut skirts, t-shirts, etc for women; men can’t wear hats and women typically wear veils), but the bulletin explicitly states parishioners must not approach anyone and tell them they’re outside the dress code (especially visitors) and instead that is role of parish priest.
 
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Saw that…after reading further down. I don’t disagree with gentleness.
 
Someone did it to me and it helped me. I’m not sure whats so shocking.

Wow. Has it really come to this? That we are SHOCKED that an older woman, as Titus put it , wants to instruct with gentleness a younger one. SO SHOCKING WOW
 
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I did indeed. No one is saying they need to be grabbed by the ear and dragged out of church and upbraided. What you are saying though makes it out to be something nigh on impossible without risking the fires of hell just to tell someone that their clothing is immodest when the person in immodest clothing is already risking the fires of hell due to scandal.
 
ok. The lady who did it to me had no idea either of what I was going through and yet Im grateful. It helped. We didn’t have to have coffee together (for goodness sakes) for me to respect what she was saying and with the spirit in which she said it. It was cause for contemplation, she felt prompted to instruct as scripture dictates and I’m all the better for it.
 
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LumineDiei said:
You don’t know where people are in the faith and how fragile things might be for them.
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Good thing Jesus didn’t have that approach.

John 6
53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?
He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
 
Doesn’t work coming from a lay person. The priest should address it.
 
i don’t know if you read my previous response in light of how this reads.
 
it worked for me, coming from a lay person.
 
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What is so hard to understand about getting to know this young woman before admonishing her? Do you people routinely go up to strangers and tell them what is wrong with them?
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The irony is nuclear given that this post is telling strangers what is wrong with them.

I do agree that I wouldn’t approach a stranger and tell her her outfit doesn’t meet dress code. But I would tell priest so he could tell her.
 
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I hope people will know that this version of the Catholic Encyclopedia is from 1917 ?
 
I guess you’re purposefully ignoring that, in the spirit of gentleness, and, AS INSTRUCTED IN SCRIPTURE, this actually can work as it did with me.
 
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Thank you Lord for allowing this post before it shuts down. Lol. Amen!
 
It might not take screaming. Any criticism can tip a fragile person over the edge. Praise God you were not fragile when youwere admonished.
 
Interesting thread…last Sunday I noticed a young girl with the trendy tight fitting jeans and carefully positioned rips distributing the host…

Yeah, it bothers me…not because of her attire but because it is diminishing the solemnity and majesty of what we are really doing…especially with the Eucharist.

But I gave the mind the ol’ mental bull whip and closed my eyes and got back to concentrating on the task at hand…

Then Tuesday at my weekly hour of adoration I read this passage…

1186 Finally, the church has an eschatological significance. To enter into the house of God, we must cross a threshold , which symbolizes passing from the world wounded by sin to the world of the new Life to which all men are called. The visible church is a symbol of the Father’s house toward which the People of God is journeying and where the Father "will wipe every tear from their eyes."65 Also for this reason, the Church is the house of all God’s children, open and welcoming.

…more here…

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s1c2a1.htm

Makes ya wonder, no?

Are “we” really embracing what it means to cross that threshold?

I know it made me stop and think…
 
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