PRIESTS IN PN DIOCESE DENY THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE CHRIST

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“Our priests are denying us the right to receive Christ in Holy Communion.” 

Above is the intro to a statement I released today, describing the parlous state of the Church of Palmerston North and the Archdiocese of Wellington, to the Manawatu Evening Standard. Similar stories were sent to HB Today and The Dominion Post.

The story continued:

"Last Saturday Walton, a parishioner at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, rebuked Monsignor Brian Walsh, Vicar-General of Palmerston North Catholic Diocese, in public for refusing Holy Communion to a man at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit who was kneeling in front of him waiting to receive.

“I don’t think it’s right for you to refuse Communion to him just because he’s kneeling,” Walton told Monsignor Walsh. The kneeling man went without Communion rather than receive in the hand.

Both Monsignor Walsh and Cathedral Parish Priest Fr Joe Grayland have refused to give parishioners Communion on the tongue for some months, but it was not until Friday that it was banned by NZ’s Catholic Bishops. In an update to previous advice on March 4, Catholics throughout New Zealand were told they must now receive in the hand. 

“We are concerned there is a significant degree of fear (of Covid-19) among parishioners.“ says Fr John O’Connor, Acting Director of the National Liturgy Office.

Communion on the tongue is a universal norm of the Catholic Church which cannot be denied by any priest or bishop anywhere in the world. The Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum #92 states that: “… each of the faithful always has the right to receive communion on the tongue, at his choice.”

Now denied Communion on the tongue by the NZ Bishops, many Catholics will go without receiving the host, preferring the centuries-old practice of spiritual Communion to Communion in the hand, which involves frequent hand-to-hand contact and has been shown in scientific studies to result in fragmentation, with particles of the host falling to the floor."

Because it would be incomprehensible to the vast majority of newspaper readers, I refrained from explaining the article of the Catholic faith - which all must believe if they are to attain eternal life - that each fragment or particle of the Host is in fact the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, whole and entire, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

Every time a fragment of the Host falls to the floor unnoticed, He lies there to be trodden underfoot by the 'faithful'.

I frequently see priests distributing Holy Communion as segments of one large Host broken apart at the altar, wafting those precious Hosts towards communicants held well away from the paten/ciborium, greatly increasing the chance of this sin of sacrilege. 

The Catechism of the Catholic Church aticle 2120 defines sacrilege as profaning or treating unworthily the sacraments and other liturgical action, as well as things, places or persons consecrated to God.

In this instance of sacrilege - Communion in the hand - it is God Himself Who is profaned.

That truth seems lost on New Zealand's bishops. The Latin Mass, where Communion on the tongue is sacrosanct and beyond any profaning notifications, now offers a safe haven for Catholics who recognising the sacrilege implicit Communion in the hand will continue to refuse it, preferring to make Spiritual Communion if the Latin Mass is not made available to them. 

This sin of sacrilege, repeated for the past fifty years - ad nauseam to God - must have contributed to the spiritual blindness of our bishops and those priests, seemingly the vast majority, who persist in the utterly unfounded canard that Communion in the hand is more sanitary than on the tongue.

We must assume that there is a more sinister motive than sanitation involved here. It smacks of persecution of traditional Catholics for their centuries-old practice of Communion in the hand. 

We find it highly ironic that the front-page headline of the latest issue of Welcom runs thus: Cardinal (John Dew) urges New Zealanders to reaffirm protection of religious beliefs. 

What is belief in Communion on the tongue, if not a 'religious belief'? Why is the Cardinal not protecting it? 

We must also wonder why the NZ Bishops' Conference - of which Cardinal John Dew of Wellington Archdiocese is vice-president - has now belatedly crossed the border into the Land of Mordor (Wellington) by complying with the former's 'guidance from the World Health Organisation' (and you know WHO advances an abortion agenda.) 

For those who now have a very bad taste in their mouths, I reproduce the following precis of a Sermon pronounced on Saturday 7 March 2020 by Fr. Denis Puga, SSPX, at the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet for the votive mass “in times of epidemic”. 

I highly recommend the sermons of SSPX priests in New Zealand: I heard another cracker yesterday at the SSPX Mass in Napier (in Dunstall's Funeral Chapel, for heaven's sake), from another Frenchman, Fr Francois Laisney.

"In the Church, fear has entered, as well as lack of faith. It is not the time to empty the holy water fonts, it is not the time to close the churches, it is not the time to refuse communion to the faithful, or even the sacraments to the sick. 

It is a time to come closer to God, to understand the meaning of these calamities. From time immemorial the Church, on the occasion of plagues and epidemics, has made public processions with manifestations of faith, this has been the occasion for the Church to preach penance. Penance, penance!

God punishes as a father can punish his children. The punishment for this pride (of King David) was a terrible plague, but as soon as God saw that hearts were turning towards Him, God made the angel of sickness stop taking revenge.

All of us must do penance. God does not always punish, and events, calamities, are not always caused directly by God, it can happen in exceptional cases, it is the laws of nature such as earthquakes, epidemics. These are the consequences of original sin. Man is no longer master of everything. 

The problem is that we are saying to God “leave us alone, let us control this”. But the only one who has the situation “under control” is the good Lord. So, what does God do? God says, “you don't want my help? Well, you're on your own”, and that is the worst thing, the worst thing.

Spanish flu at the end of the First World War caused more than fifty million deaths, I mean deaths! The Church was in the front line. See the photographic archives of the time, see those nuns who were going to take care of the sick.

During this terrible epidemic of the Spanish flu, the Church continued to celebrate worship, using the sacraments, sacramentals, recourse to the intercession of the saints, a great tradition of the Church. 

We must do the same, my dear brethren, let us not be, and it is for us priests that I am speaking, let us not be like those bad shepherds who, when they see the wolf - or the virus - appear in the distance, run away! 

Jacinta and Francisco Marto, the two children of Fatima, died in quite terrible conditions, and they offered their lives for the conversion of sinners. This is a law that will last until the end of the world. The good Lord needs victims, victims who atone in union with the one who is the Victim par excellence, Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Public calamities are often the consequence of the sins of public authorities. Today we can be worried because evil laws are multiplying, violations of natural law, apostasy - even in the Church - that cannot leave the good God indifferent. 

Calamities must make us think that if we do not do penance, we will all perish. God is good, He does not want the death of the sinner but He wants him to convert and live. Public calamities are often the consequence of the sins of public authorities, that is so. 

Today we can be worried because all the evil laws that are multiplying, all the violations of natural law, the apostasy - even in the Church - that we see today, cannot leave the good God indifferent. In the Old Testament we even saw the Jews who protested to God when he did not punish them, because they said, “But do you no longer love us?” They preferred God's punishment to God's silence, and God’s silence is perhaps the worst thing. 

In Belgium, in one year three thousand people were euthanized - that is the official figure - and among them children as well were euthanized. And I am not talking about the number of abortions today. These are all sins crying out to heaven.

There are people coming here perhaps for the first time. People who have been refused communion in the churches because they asked for it in the traditional way in the mouth, and they come here because they want to receive communion. We see here the weakness, to say the least, of the leaders in the Church, not all of them, fortunately. There is no greater risk of spreading the virus by communion in the mouth than by communion in the hand.

Recalled by the Holy See a few years ago is the right for the faithful to receive communion on the tongue. One does not deprive those who are in calamity of the sacraments. 

So, I say to them: you are at home, here, because here you will always find the Church's usual, traditional way of dealing with epidemics. Let us also entrust ourselves to the miraculous medal, wear it, let it be worn, it is a bulwark against all the temptations of the devil. 

The peculiarity of this disease (coronavirus) is that it doesn't seem to affect children, or at least not seriously. Perhaps this is a sign from God because in the Gospel Jesus Christ tells us: “unless you become as children again, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”. 

Not to enter the kingdom of heaven is to be damned, that is the worst of perils, that is the worst of calamities.

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