I was looking through the 10/31 issue of the Catholic Virginian and saw the letter to the editor by Deacon Chris Moriah clarifying the diocesan policy of receiving Communion under both kinds. I was very happy to see this clarification after learning about Phoenix Bishop Olmsted's decision to limit the use of the Precious Blood.
Apparently the Bishop took another look and so the other day, I read that he had issued a new set of norms for his diocese which expanded what he had previously written. Some of this info can be found here.
What do you think?
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Why would anyone be worried that they're going to take the saliva cup away? If you're last in line, by the time you get to the cup, most of the Precious Blood is diluted with the gathered assembly's saliva. Don't get me wrong; I'm all in for drinking, I just don't want to drink other people's saliva. As long as the hosts are concecrated into the Body AND Blood of Christ, the host is what I'll receive.
Is it true that A team has been set up, to put a stop to garage style churches, boldly shaped structures that risk denaturing modern places for Catholic worship? I understand that its task is also to promote singing that really helps the celebration of mass. The “Liturgical art and sacred music commission” will be established by the Congregation for Divine Worship over the coming weeks. This will not be just any office, but a true and proper team, whose task will be to collaborate with the commissions in charge of evaluating construction projects for churches of various dioceses. The team will also be responsible for the further study of music and singing that accompany the celebration of mass.
Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Benedict XVI, consider this work as “very urgent”. The reality is staring everyone in the eyes: in recent decades, churches have been substituted by buildings that resemble multi purpose halls. Too often, architects, even the more famous ones, do not use the Catholic liturgy as a starting point and thus end up producing avant-garde constructions that look like anything but a church. These buildings composed of cement cubes, glass boxes, crazy shapes and confused spaces, remind people of anything but the mystery and sacredness of a church. Tabernacles are semi hidden, leading faithful on a real treasure hunt and sacred images are almost inexistent. The new commission’s regulations will be written up over the next few days and will give precise instructions to dioceses. It will only be responsible for liturgical art, not for sacred art in general; and this also goes for liturgical music and singing too. The judicial powers of the Congregation for Divine Worship will have the power to act.
What happened in Suffolk? Anybody know?
I also see that Msgr. Lane is now Vicar General as well as Vicar for Clergy. The Bishop apparently has no one else he thinks he can depend on. Very sad.
This is music to my ears. Everytime we assert ourselves at the table and drink Cup, we celebrate our priestly rights by virtue of our baptism. I grew up in the days of pray, pay and obey and refuse to go back. Sing a New church into being! We Gather! We Celebrate! We Believe!
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