COMMUNION BY GIORGIA MELONI AND THAT CLERICAL IDEOLOGISM ON COMMUNION IN HANDS EVEN IN HIGH RISK SITUATIONS WHICH EXCEEDS THE VERY VALUE OF PROTECTING THE BODY OF CHRIST

It is necessary in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur?

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Ivano Liguori, Ofm. Capp..

 

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Among many, during the funeral celebration of Benedict XVI, the photo of our Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni receiving Holy Communion from the hands of a priest did not go unnoticed. Someone maliciously pointed out that political sympathies risk overshadowing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but we, up here The Island of Patmos we have no political sympathies because we care about people and their souls and we know that for God there are no serial souls “a” or serial “b”, much less souls of the right or of the left but all are called to salvation in Jesus Christ, because this is why God called the Church and a priest should be concerned daily and primarily with the salvation and health of the souls entrusted to him, not of "other", and it is better to spread a pitiful veil and not add anything else on the nature and modality of this "other".

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Given the public case of Communion at Meloni, there would be so much to say and to object from the point of view of the doctrine and teaching of the Catholic Church but I believe that the point now is not this, if not to ignite sterile controversies that are completely useless and to be avoided. In my personal opinion it would certainly be appropriate to give a nice tug of the ear to the national Giorgia - a pastorally dutiful thing for the good of her soul and for the protection of many Christians who voted for her in the last elections - who did not have the slightest hesitation to receive the Eucharist although not being able to do it because still today linked through a cohabitation with Andrea Giambruno. Let us remember that coexistence is an emotional bond not recognized by the Church for two baptized persons, whose only valid bond of union is the sacramental one of marriage, in which Christ Himself unites spouses into one. Unfortunately, a significant aggravating circumstance is added to the specific case of our Prime Minister: either, her and her partner, are totally free from previous constraints. None of them has previously contracted a marriage which would constitute an impediment to their union. Therefore there is precisely the manifest will not to marry and to live in a state of coexistence. A situation that deserves all due respect for the free and unquestionable choices of others, but which however has nothing to do with those of the many people animated by deep Christian sentiments, divorced and later married civilly, that although they want to experience a regular situation they are not able to do it, unless there are elements such as to allow the ecclesiastical court to declare it invalid, therefore null, their previous marriage.

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I hope some brother priest, maybe a friend of Meloni, made her understand the responsibility for her public act, not so much as a civil and lay representative of the Italian State present there to pay homage to a deceased Pontiff, but above all as a person who defines himself as a Catholic Christian and who on more than one occasion has wanted to present himself as a guardian of the traditional values ​​of the faith. Except for giving repeated guarantees during the electoral campaign that no one would touch the abortion law in any way, something further guaranteed by the Catholic Elisabetta Gardini to various television programs in the pre-election period [cf.. See WHO, WHO]

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In the recent past, we have had other politicians who have brandished rosaries and sacred images for propaganda purposes and we have always ended up with farce, with great detriment to the faith of the simple and the unprepared. This is not because a politician is prohibited from testifying his faith and religious affiliation in public, but because when one does so one must keep one's own role as an official of a secular State which has certain obligations as well as that of a person of faith which has others and perhaps more burdensome and binding because they are addressed to God and to the Church which are not they are certainly voters.

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So here is the crux of the matter: but is it ever possible that in the organization of the celebrations of the Holy See there is no provision for limiting these abuses and these outbursts of sentimental transport, especially in the section reserved for politicians and public authorities whose living condition is easy to trace and know their public thinking so as to evaluate whether or not these people should have access to the Sacraments? If this is possible to do it in smaller and less organized contexts, we should perhaps think that the organizational and diplomatic arm of the Holy See has become so short-sighted as to be short-sighted and not see certain situations? We do not want and cannot believe it.

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The most striking reality it is that of a fallacious and dissipated organization of ceremonial. If a reprimand is necessary, it must be done to His Holiness' master of ceremonies and to the other masters of ceremonies in charge of the order and decorum of the celebration, who have not organized themselves to prevent certain offenses that, although they are not to be used to make a derogatory or hurtful judgment about the person, must be absolutely and by all means avoided by virtue of their sacredness which can easily lead to scandal - in the sense of stumbling to the faith - and to the mortification of the mysteries celebrated.

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I remember very well than at the funeral of John Paul II, at the time of Communion, the notice was clearly given - due given the influx of people of different origins from all parts of the world - that the Eucharist was approached only by those who were in the conditions required by the Church to be able to receive it, so as to avoid the equivalence that the Body of the Lord has the same value and importance as a comforting embrace, of a gesture of solidarity in times of need or worse of a sentimental-passionate transport in which I "feel like taking Communion" for an unspecified reason.

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The problem has always been discussed it is also another: it is necessary that in certain great pontifical celebrations and beyond, Holy Communion is administered to thousands of people, more on the hands, where exercising control is impossible and where real sacrileges can occur, which punctually occurred and continue to occur? At certain large and crowded celebrations, would it not be better to select a small group of faithful who receive Holy Communion, for example by the Supreme Pontiff or the Bishop, while thousands more of the faithful join them in spiritual communion? Or do we want to forget when in the 2005, shortly after the death of John Paul II, was auctioned off EBay a Host received by a non-Catholic participant in a Holy Mass celebrated by him in 1988? The problem was solved by the US Diocese of Sioux City who managed to withdraw it. But there is much worse: the so-called Spanish “artist” Abel Azcona subtracted 242 Hosts presenting themselves to receive Holy Communion, obviously given on the hands, then using them to compose the word «pederastia» which in Spanish means paedophilia on the ground. Yet not even cases of this kind have ever dissuaded the clerical ideologues of Communion in hand at all costs, in any situation even at high risk. For intimate knowledge of the subject in question I add: it is reasonable to blame our confrere Ariel S. Levi di Gualdo who has always refused to give communion on the hands to anyone, after running into an attempted abduction during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? There is a video documenting it in which Father Ariel is seen chasing after a woman with the pyx in his hand and taking the Host away from the bag in which he had placed it. Does anyone have an idea of ​​the indelible trauma that it entails for a priest to have given the Eucharist to a person who has tried to take it away, moreover during the celebration of his first Holy Mass? We want to give Communion on the hands? Good, but that at least it imposes itself to check with extreme attention. It is not possible for many priests to place the Most Holy Eucharist in the hands of unknown people without exercising any control. How many people, instead of consuming it before the priest as it should, they turn their backs or leave in the total carelessness of the celebrant, or they consume it while walking through the church without anyone calling them back? These are ordinary scenes. However, it is known how much clerical ideology far exceeds the very value of the Body of Christ and the maximum protection that it should require.

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If these things don't remediate at the source, downstream there will hardly be someone who will keep and appreciate the value so as to enforce them. And between the political fevers that are waiting to catch the foot of the wrong adversary and the assaulting Puritan traditionalists who cry out to sin and threaten hell, there will always be in between the runaway from home which seraphically will remind us: "Who am I to judge?». Maybe we are nobody, but as priests and keepers of the mysteries of God entrusted to us with the laying on of hands, we want with all of ourselves to avoid that holy things are given to dogs, as well as pearls before swine [See. Mt 7,6]. It is not a question of spiritual racism but of pastoral charity which primarily wishes to protect those who still have to grow in the knowledge of God and in the proclamation of salvation within a gradual and mature journey of ecclesial faith. We cannot afford to waste the graces of God, and this also applies to those who are not yet able to appreciate them in order to grow in the right knowledge of Him and not to increase their own narcissistic and pathological religious sense. Perhaps we are wasting time but it is useful to recall the first letter to the Corinthians of the Blessed Apostle Paul [See. 1Color 11,17-34] in which the correct modality with which the faithful are called to approach the Body of the Lord is underlined, not only understood in its sacramental but ecclesial component, because it is the Eucharist that makes the Church, Body of the Lord. In a few lines «Paul educates us to have this look of responsibility on both of these "Bodies" by communicating to the rite established by Christ, ecclesial communion is also given shape and cohesion" [See. B. Standard, Letters of St. Paul, introduction, translation and commentary, St. Paul, 2021].

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We don't expect that in the Vatican understand this Pauline theological concept but at least it would not hurt to have a little respectful decency towards all those brothers who due to their irregular condition cannot yet fully receive Holy Communion and who respectfully observe fasting towards the sacred species of the Lord thus manifesting a heroic testimony of love for the Church, the Body of Christ.

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These Communions not made, more so than any done through deceit or the occasional sentimental carried away, today more than ever they are like a finger pointed at us priests who have long since abdicated the role of fathers in the faith to become friends who allow everything, they apologize and concede. We priests too, that we communicate at every Holy Mass, someone should make us think, know if we are truly in a state of grace to be able to receive that sacramental body that we consecrate daily when perhaps we are still totally unable to keep, to grow and defend that ecclesial body which is equally a sign of Christ in the world and communion with him.

Laconi, 8 January 2023

 

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