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Reverend Father, a direct question: since from tomorrow, 18 May, they will be able to resume Holy Masses coram populo, She intends to distribute Holy Communion with disposable gloves?
Nobody can force me to do something like that, so, what cannot be commanded as it is contrary to sacred respect for the Most Holy Eucharist, I won't do it.
Also because the Ecclesiastical Authority should then explain to me and answer this question clearly and precisely: and disposable gloves, after using them, what will happen to them? Maybe they will have to be thrown into the separate waste collection?
Imagine if I would throw gloves used to touch the Most Holy Body of Christ into the separate collection.
Let me be clear: it's not about disobeying, quite the opposite! It's about not sticking to what outrages the Most Holy Eucharist, towards which, of outrages, too many have been brought.
I'll give you another example: once, while I was staying in an Italian diocese, the diocesan bishop told me: «Do not wear the cassock, because my priests, who don't wear it, they are annoyed that someone wears the cassock in public". I replied: «Your Excellency has modified the Code of Canon Law and the provisions given in this regard by Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and the Italian Episcopal Conference?" So: I wear the cassock as expected, therefore, that your priests do not protest and that Your Excellency never again allows himself to suggest to me things contrary to the laws and provisions of the Church"
there, always to clarify what is not disobedience at all.
Reverend Father, thank you. I am heartened by your response. However, in my diocese of belonging (Padova), the bishop's provisions are very clear and certainly not identical to yours. (http://www.diocesipadova.it/ripresa-delle-messe-con-il-popolo-il-decreto-del-vescovo-per-la-diocesi/).
I ask her: if I accept the S. Communion with this modality, I too am somehow guilty of an 'outrage' – if only because I allow it – oppure no? And what does he say about the ban on receiving communion in the mouth? Thanks in advance for your reply
Dear Adriana,
read Father Gabriele's latest article, because inside you will find many answers to your questions.
As far as I'm concerned, I reiterate that no bishop can force me to distribute Holy Communion with latex gloves; gloves which should then be disposed of, I assume in the separate waste collection, because something like this literally horrifies me.
A very important thing, to which you should pay attention, because it is a pitfall into which it is best not to fall, it is the ideological and polemical use of the Most Holy Eucharist.
In fact, we know that there are groups of people, today also accompanied by followed blogs and sites, who fight against Communion given in the hand. To these ideologists – because they are – it couldn't happen “better” of the coronavirus to encourage their own controversies.
As I have often explained to readers: personally, Communion on the hands, I have never given it to anyone, while paying total compliance with the provisions given in this sense at the time by the Italian Episcopal Conference. Indeed, the decree in question, authorizes the ability to administer Holy Communion either on the hands or on the mouth at the choice of the faithful, both at the discretion of the celebrant under both species, that is, dipping the sacred host in the Blood of Christ and placing it on the mouth of the faithful. And so I have always done since I became a priest: I have always given Holy Communion under both kinds.
The battles carried out by certain people, sites and blogs, they are not in heaven or on earth, why receive Holy Communion on the hands with sacred devotion, It's not at all the sacrilege that they are shouting around, almost always clinging to pseudo-theologies or catastrophic visions of some mystic or misunderstood mysticism.
Communion on the hands, by secular, I never received it. The first time I touched the Holy Eucharist was after I became a deacon. I have always preferred to receive it in my mouth, but always reiterating that, receive it devoutly in your hands, It's not the sacrilege that many are saying around.
The faithful have different sensitivities, as I expressed myself, using myself as an example, first as a layman and then as a priest. Therefore you must not feel obliged in any way to receive Holy Communion in a way that could create discomfort for you. In the event to, do what your conscience tells you to do, for example by giving up, in case, to receive Communion.
The discipline of the Church establishes that the faithful must confess at least once a year and receive Holy Communion at Easter (Catechism of the Catholic Church, NN. 2041-2043).
The Church does not establish, nor has he ever established, that it is the duty of the faithful to receive Communion frequently. Far from it, as Father Gabriele always clarifies in his latest article, “frequent Communion” it's a very recent thing, dates back to the time of the Holy Pontiff Pius, to be exact the 1905.
What should not be done, however, is to give rise to protests and attacks against the episcopate, as regards the discipline of the Sacraments, he certainly cannot and must not take directives and orders from bloggers, various sites and elderly journalists who have become theologians, the liturgists, i canonisti … without having it or the preparation, nor sensitivity, nor authority.
Thank you for this powerful testimony. I am very saddened by the current situation, but I continue to cultivate a tenacious hope based on Our Lord who “He will be with us until the end of time”
Commendable decision. Unfortunately, incalculable damage has now been done, and in different ways and measures we are all more or less guilty of it, but with CEIP as the leader (P=Patriotic), that (minimal example) he even passed us off as Devotion in a direct broadcast on May 1st “television event” registered 5 days before.