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Schneider: Coronavirus Is Punishment for Communion in the Hand

For the first time in Church history, public Mass was prohibited worldwide, Bishop Athanasius Schneider noticed during the live-streamed Rome Life Forum (May 22). He calls the coronavirus only a “…More
For the first time in Church history, public Mass was prohibited worldwide, Bishop Athanasius Schneider noticed during the live-streamed Rome Life Forum (May 22).
He calls the coronavirus only a “pretext” for infringing the rights of Christians. This created an "atmosphere of the catacombs" with priests celebrating Mass in secrecy for their faithful.
For Schneider it is "unbelievable" how bishops have converted into "rigid public officials” by banning public worship even before their government did.
The current situation could be understood as a “divine rebuke for the past fifty years of Eucharistic desecration and trivialisation” through Communion in the hand (1969) and the radical reform of the rite of Mass (1969/1970), Schneider analyses.
He gives many arguments against Communion in the hand:
• particles of the consecrated hosts are trampled upon by clergy and laity
• consecrated hosts are being stolen
• Communion in the hand is like taking common food • Communion in the hand turned …More
DrMaria
Thank you, Bishop Schneider, for your willingness to tell the truth about what is going on! How grateful we are for your leadership at this time - when most shepherds are cowering in the corner - afraid to go against the party-line, even though it is the party-line that has been devastating the Church since Vatican II! May Our Lady continue to strengthen and protect you! You are a great blessing! …More
Thank you, Bishop Schneider, for your willingness to tell the truth about what is going on! How grateful we are for your leadership at this time - when most shepherds are cowering in the corner - afraid to go against the party-line, even though it is the party-line that has been devastating the Church since Vatican II! May Our Lady continue to strengthen and protect you! You are a great blessing! Speaking personally, I was so encouraged by your talk at the Rome Life Forum today!
frawley
I think that it is the irreverence of todays communion that is the problem. Communion in the hand can be very reverent. The priest when he consumes the Euchrist uses his hands but in a very different way. He cleanses his hands, holds the Euchrist very carefully, has the patten underneath to catch any particles and is at all times attentive and reverent.
DrMaria
Frawley, see my longer post above -- the hands of lay people are not consecrated to touch the Blessed Sacrament. This change should never have happened - it is, in itself, a desecration of the Blessed Sacrament, not to mention all the abuses that have occurred in the wake of this sacrilegious practice since Vatican II, as discussed by Bishop Schneider.
Dr Bobus
@DrMaria
It's a given that the change should not have happened, but it naturally followed from vernacular liturgy (also versus populum).
Let them continue to introduce more and more liberal Protestant gimmicks (cf Newton's third law).More
@DrMaria

It's a given that the change should not have happened, but it naturally followed from vernacular liturgy (also versus populum).

Let them continue to introduce more and more liberal Protestant gimmicks (cf Newton's third law).