ONLY IN THE SPIRITUAL LAND OF MORDOR - THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

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Catholics in the Palmerston North Diocese are being denied their God-given right to receive their Lord in Holy Communion on the tongue. 

It is only in the Wellington Archdiocese that Communion on the tongue has been banned. 

In the rest of New Zealand, as in Wellington, the chalice and touching at the Sign of Peace are banned, but Communion on the tongue is retained as an absolute right which cannot be proscribed by any priest or bishop.

In the United States, coronavirus-related measures are the same as those for New Zealand as stated by the NZ Bishops last Wednesday. In the US, as Father Aquinas Guilbeau O P explains, 

"The Church does not fail, whatever the trials of the day, to offer the whole Christ to all of the faithful."

These measures (in the States) include significant changes to liturgical practice, namely the suspension of exchanging the sign of peace and receiving communion under both species (the body and blood).

https://aleteia.org/2020/03/08/mass-in-the-time-of-covid-19/?utm_campaign=Web_Notifications&utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=notifications

Note that the "significant changes to liturgical practice" in the US  do not include suspension of Communion on the tongue.

In the absence of a bishop - our bishop, Charles Drennan, having been removed from his post because of sex abuse and with no other shepherd appointed yet to lead his erstwhile flock - Palmerston North now seems to have been subsumed temporarily into the Wellington Archdiocese, under its bishop, Cardinal John Dew.

It seems it's only in the spiritual land of Mordor - Wellington Archdiocese - that the whole Christ is denied to those who believe as the Church taught for two thousand years, that only the consecrated hands of the priest may come in contact with the Sacred Species, as prescribed by the GIRM and the Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum.

The ban on Communion on the tongue was was defended by my parish priest at Holy Mass last Sunday morning.

Father explained that it's all because the PN Diocese has been a Diocese for 40 years. Apparently that makes it okay to persecute faithful Catholics who receive Our Lord on the tongue, as faithful Catholics have done for more than two thousand years.

Oh, and it's also because in giving Communion on the tongue, Father's fingers come in contact with saliva. Saliva has been proven to have fewer germs than are carried on the hands, which makes sense: we open and close toilet doors, for example, with our hands, not our teeth.

And was Father not trained in the seminary, back in the day when everyone received on the tongue, how to give Communion on the tongue? Has he forgotten how? 

If he and the rest of the Archdiocesan priests are still so worried about saliva, why don’t they ask Google, who'll surely show them a how-to video? 

Or better still, why don't they attend an SSPX Mass and receive Communion from an SSPX priest, and watch how he does it?