Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
“Father, it has been ___ since my last confession, these are my sins…”
“I’ve knelt at altar rails…”
(I sincerely hope the above is not offensive to the Lord, I’m attempting to call out in humorous way what has-to-be offensive.)
“No one is sure where the impetus for this is originating, but it seems to be picking up a bit of steam.”
I don’t know whether this is an attempt to play dumb or if it is just a case of the ignorant revealing themselves. Neither is flattering.
More punitive BS of V2 origin. I can’t stand these useless apparatchiks at the diocese and no longer support them.
No such nonsense has yet occurred in the Dallas diocese, and our parish has kneelers in front of the sanctuary steps to facilitate receiving in the traditional posture. If and when such a decree is issued here, it will mark the end of my financial contributions to the Diocese.
A Swan Song for the 60’s reformers. Let the King of Kings be adored and kneel before Him.
The rise of TLM and hunger for proper worship of our God can not be halted forever. Just until the hippies move on.
This is their Swan Song, imo.
If we really and truly believe that the Holy Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, God Omnipotent, the Eternal Logos, then we would fall prostrate before His Almighty Majesty and cry as the prophet Isaiah did: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
This whole thing about shuffling up the aisle to receive a “communion cracker” is (I think) deliberately intended to remove belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. These post-Vatican II Novus Ordo priest and bishops simply don’t believe that Jesus is right there. One day, likely at Final Judgment, their eyes will be opened and then it’ll be too late.
BTW orthodox Anglicans – those jurisdictions that use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and have broken away from Canterbury and the Episcopal Church USA – use communion rails and receive the Eucharist in the pre-Vatican II traditional fashion. Say what you want about them still not being in communion with Rome, given the kind of crap Rome allows (even promotes), can you blame them? I know an Archbishop among their ranks who, when Benedict XVI was Pope, was considering going to Rome. When Francis took over with his manifest heresies, that idea got dumped pronto, and I blame him not one iota.
…can we induce a spittle-flecked nutty by requesting Latin?
Good Catholics try to obey and agonize over what may be disobeyed, for fear and love of Him whose Church it is.
Bad Catholics do whatever they want with no fear of the neutered, ever smiling Boss that they have reimagined to suit their wants.
How can such a unmatched set of horses continue to pull the same coach? Heaven help us!
… And just like that Bishops suddenly care what the GIRM says!
O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
~ Psalm 95:6
It’s my understanding that it was back in the ‘80’s, when the ‘General Instruction of the Roman Missal’ was being revised, that we first saw the unfortunate phrase describing receiving Holy Communion standing and in the hand as ‘the norm’.
Liturgical innovators seized upon the phrase, insisting that it meant that it was prescriptive, that is, it implied that receiving in the hand while standing was to be required for all. Rome has since clarified that the phrase was merely intended to be descriptive, that is it was simply describing what was by then the general practice in most parishes.
Rome has repeatedly stated that it is the universal practice to receive Holy Communion on the tongue while kneeling; and that to receive in the hand while standing is a *permitted* variation at the discretion of the national bishops’ conferences. That’s a far cry from Rome somehow declaring kneeling forbidden and standing mandatory. In fact, Rome has also repeatedly declared that it is wrong to deny Communion to those who prefer to receive on the tongue while kneeling.
Liturgical innovators and their enablers are either ignorant of what Rome has said on this matter or (more likely) simply being intellectually dishonest. And I very much doubt that dishonesty has ever served the good of Christ’s Church.
“Don’t kneel to receive the Lord.” And in the next breath, “Why do so few Catholics believe in the Real Presence?”
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The young, under 40, never complain about receiving on the tongue from the hand of a priest and at a communion rail or prie-dieu, kneeler. Only boomers voice concern, sometimes with tears, that others are kneeling to receive the Lord. Also, out of the blue and without directives from me, females under 30 are putting on the veil. I offer the kneeler for communion and let it organically and spiritually grow.