VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The reverence and awe of Catholics who truly believe they are receiving Jesus in the Eucharist should lead them to kneel and receive Communion on their tongues, said a bishop writing in the Vatican newspaper.
"If some nonbeliever arrived and observed such an act of adoration perhaps he, too, would 'fall down and worship God, declaring, God is really in your midst,'" wrote Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, quoting from the First Letter to the Corinthians.
I totally agree!
In addition to demonstrating true adoration by kneeling, he said, receiving Communion on the tongue also avoids concerns about people receiving the body of Christ with dirty hands or of losing particles of the Eucharist, concerns that make sense if people truly believe in the sacrament.
But do most people
really believe anymore? I'm not so sure that they do based upon my observations over the past few decades...
In 1969 the Vatican published an instruction allowing bishops to permit the distribution of Communion in the hand.
Conveniently left out of the article is the fact that widespread novelty and disobedience had already taken placed and the practice was encouraged by wayward clergy and others...I'm certain that the day will return when Catholics will again get down on their knees to receive our Lord.
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