To receive Holy Communion in the hand is a grave sacrilege. The Council of Saragossa (380): Excommunicated anyone who dared continue receiving Holy Communion by hand. This was confirmed by the Synod of Toledo. “Do not put the Eucharist in the hands of any layman or laywoman but only in their mouths.” - The Council of Rouen (650) The Synod of Rouen (650): Condemned Communion in the hand to halt widespread abuses that occurred from this practice, and as a safeguard against sacrilege. 6th Ecumenical Council, at Constantinople (680-681): Forbade the faithful to take the Sacred Host in their hand,threatening transgressors with excommunication. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Out of reverence towards this Sacrament [the Holy Eucharist], nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priests hands, for touching this Sacrament. (Summa Theologica, Part III, Q. 82, Art. 3, Rep. Obj. 8.) The Council of Trent (1545-1565): The fact that only the priest gives Holy Communion with his consecrated hands is an Apostolic Tradition. “Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.” - St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 11:27 “Behind communion-in-the-hand – I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can – is a weakening, a conscious, a deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence.” - Father John Hardon, S.J “Communion in the hand is a major spike through which the Lord today is being re-crucified in His Church.” - David Martin, Our Lady’s Workers of Southern California “It is the sign of adoration that needs to be recovered. I think the entire Church needs to receive Communion while kneeling.” - Cardinal Llovera “Communion in the hand is a built-in sacrilege that destroys the faith - and it has worked its evil everywhere.” - Rev. Anthony Cekada
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 02:02:58 +0000
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