tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post6094019631227207863..comments2024-01-18T22:58:49.172-06:00Comments on Dust of the Time: Distribution of Communion to the SickDust I Amhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17214613587456861583noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-19785710835956573422009-04-24T12:46:00.000-05:002009-04-24T12:46:00.000-05:00Dust, maybe you can volunteer to give Holy Communi...Dust, maybe you can volunteer to give Holy Communion to the sick in the future since you would do it properly and without fault.<br /><br />Remember you will be judged by the same measure you are judging others. Why not be hands and feet for Christ instead of just being a mouth piece for the rule book.<br /><br />You might bring about more positive change with prayer verses pointing out the flaws of the faithful. The Jews weren't saved by "the law" and Catholics won't be either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-32402475815860423522009-04-09T01:10:00.000-05:002009-04-09T01:10:00.000-05:00You can simply contact your priest at your parish,...You can simply contact your priest at your parish, and tell him that you want him to bring your mother the Holy Eucharist. If he can not do so, call another parish and ask the priests there to bring her the Eucharist. And when they do so, they can hear your mother's confession before they give her the consecrated Host.<BR/><BR/>That should be it. If you still cannot find a priest to bring her the Eucharist, call the diocese directly and ask for the Bishop, and respectfully ask him to send a priest or deacon to your hospital for this reason.<BR/><BR/>If, however, there is no priest who has the time to visit your hospital then your mother will have to accept the Eucharist from an EM, and schedule a time with a priest to have her confession heard. You see, if no priest is able to get away from other duties in his parish and diocese, then the conditions described by 'Immensae caritatis', 'Dominicae coenae', and other Papal documents must truly exist -- that every priest and deacon in your diocese are too busy to provide the Holy Eucharist for all of their parishioners, and that your mother will have to accept an EM's service in this regard.<BR/><BR/><BR/>- KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-84686654735298387102009-04-08T17:10:00.000-05:002009-04-08T17:10:00.000-05:00In our local "Catholic" hospital the EMs bring Hol...In our local "Catholic" hospital the EMs bring Holy Communion regularly but one cannot go to confession. <BR/><BR/>My dad walked into my (extremely ill)mother's hospital room and found a consecrated Host in her lap one morning. What would have happened if he had not come in the room?<BR/><BR/>A day later I was in her room talking on the telephone when I pivoted around and beheld Our Precious Lord right in front of my face! The EM holding up the Host did not even know me! There was NO preparation! NONE! And I was ON THE PHONE! I dropped to my knees and whispered something about not being prepared. She seemed disappointed. <BR/><BR/>I wrote the bishop every detail. I am unsatisfied with the response but have done all I can do, save Holy Communions of reparation. If you read this, please help me with one or more of your own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30096810.post-63613317871593909572009-04-07T17:48:00.000-05:002009-04-07T17:48:00.000-05:00Thank you for this article. It is highly importan...Thank you for this article. It is highly important that Catholics continue writing about the typical use of EMs in parishes, and about 'Communion in the hand', because it is extremely important that these abuses and practices end.<BR/><BR/>It is clear that 'Fidei custos', 'Immensae caritatis', 'Dominicae coenae', and 'Inaestimabile donum' do not allow for the use of EMs in almost any Mass that is commonly held anywhere throughout the world. And since this is true, it is the responsibility of Roman Catholic priests everywhere to end this abuse in their parishes.<BR/><BR/>When we enter a Catholic Church, one must have a sense that the world has been left behind. All the politics, all the problems, all the gender-agendas, attitudes, banalities, bigotries, acts of shallowness, pridefulness, and other shameful behaviors must be left behind.<BR/><BR/>Many of us are capable of acting better than we frequently do while we are all worshiping together at Mass. However, far too many of us it seems, see their parish merely as one more stage on which to perform -- one more career path for one to conquer and to beat-down whatever opposition that arises. And so, I think it is important for priests to keep all this in mind, and to stop such behaviors when they see it has become necessary. Without such leadership, parishes fall apart. Those who doubt such things would do well to thoughtfully peruse Chapter 32 of the Book of Exodus.<BR/><BR/>Even Latin Masses are now having this problem. I attended an ICRSP Mass in California recently, where I watched an elderly women going in and out of the sacristy before Mass. Every now and then she would step out, look at everyone carefully, and then go back inside (in a rather obvious effort to convey the idea that she was some sort of leader in charge of something important). I could hear her talking inside, and it appeared that there was some sort of business she was engaged in. Then the bell was rung indicating that the Mass had begun, and out walked the server and priest. Guess who chose this precise moment to exit the sacristy -- *right* *behind* *the* *priest*?<BR/><BR/>The Catholic Church has been richly blessed in America. It has encountered little real opposition -- few Churches have been destroyed, mobs with torches have rarely appeared at the front doors of our parishes. But unless I'm greatly mistaken, it is becoming rather clear that a great age in America is coming to an end. Catholic priests are now widely-regarded with suspicion for no reason whatsoever. Many towns and municipalities count the number of parishioners that enter our Churches, in order to look for a reason to withdraw a parish's tax-exempt status. Laws have now been put forward in Connecticut in order to strip the Catholic Church's authority to manage its own finances. The times are changing markedly, and yet we continue to tear ourselves apart from the inside.<BR/><BR/>And so, it is high time that we start acting differently. We've had it so good for so long, many of us have forgotten that a significant amount of time has already passed us by. Future generations will, for the most part, learn only from what they can see. Tens of millions of Catholics in the United States alone are now almost completely ignorant of true Catholic tradition and reverent Catholic worship practices.<BR/><BR/><BR/>- KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com