Friends!
I wish I had good news to relate, but :-( , :-( , :-( !!!
Pope Francis and his MC still do apparently have a 'no hand Communion' regulation functioning,
@ 1hour15min00sec shows. A young lady is corrected to receive on the tongue. As I have pointed out before, this is captured on camera at almost all of Francis' Masses, (and only in one of Pope Benedict's in all eight years of his pontificate) and no minister would go-out-on-a-limb, and being a 'meanie', if the Holy Father had said he did not care how Communion is received.
However the Pope's desire is undermined big-time by....
1) no paten being used by his ministers
2) abundant instances of ministers succumbing to communicants' appeals to take the Holy Eucharist in their hands.
Perhaps it needs to be re-iterated. Hand Communion and casual posture during reception weaken people's faith in the Real Presence. Period.
This is a battle worth fighting. and winning.
I wish I had good news to relate, but :-( , :-( , :-( !!!
Pope Francis and his MC still do apparently have a 'no hand Communion' regulation functioning,
@ 1hour15min00sec shows. A young lady is corrected to receive on the tongue. As I have pointed out before, this is captured on camera at almost all of Francis' Masses, (and only in one of Pope Benedict's in all eight years of his pontificate) and no minister would go-out-on-a-limb, and being a 'meanie', if the Holy Father had said he did not care how Communion is received.
However the Pope's desire is undermined big-time by....
1) no paten being used by his ministers
2) abundant instances of ministers succumbing to communicants' appeals to take the Holy Eucharist in their hands.
Perhaps it needs to be re-iterated. Hand Communion and casual posture during reception weaken people's faith in the Real Presence. Period.
This is a battle worth fighting. and winning.
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