“Stop desecrating” Christ by receiving the Eucharist in the hand! Start receiving on your tongue, on your knees!"
"That is the humbler way to receive."
Dan Burke, former president of EWTN News, and author of Spiritual Warfare and Discernment of Spirits, has just been discharged from hospital after nearly losing his life to the coronavirus.
“I've come out of this with a resolute resoluteness,” Burke has told John Henry Westen of LifesiteNews.
"And that is, to cry out to the laity to repent and to stop desecrating Christ. Stop receiving him in a manner that is destructive, that allows for the stealing of the host, that allows for the dropping of particles, and the trampling of the Lord under our feet!”
Burke explained that what struck him the most during his illness was that Catholics have to repent and stop offending God with liturgical irreverence.
“There are no issues of irreverence in the Latin Mass…there might be internally, but certainly not externally, as a norm.
"In the Ordinary Form of the Mass, every single day the Lord is desecrated — every single day, grave irreverence. Every single day we commit the most grave sins … against God himself in the realm of worship.”
“90 percent of the time, priests are unfaithful to their vows in the way that they provide the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they're making stuff up,” Burke continued.
The laity too “need to repent for usurping the role of the priest” at Mass. They also need to repent for “receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin.”
The laity too “need to repent for usurping the role of the priest” at Mass. They also need to repent for “receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin.”
“I believe that the highest order of demons are concerned with the disruption of worship, the proper worship of God,” he said.
Asked what he would do if a priest refused to administer the Eucharist to him while kneeling, Burke said, “I would stay kneeling and see what happens...you have to take a spiritual stand.” (An unfortunate metaphor, perhaps?)
If he were in a diocese where he couldn’t reverently receive the Lord, Burke said he would “leave the diocese.”
Westen referred to 1 Corinthians 11: 27, which warns against receiving Communion unworthily. Burke responded by saying, “I think it's a demonic reality that that passage never appears in the Ordinary Form lectionary.”
He adds that Cardinal Francis Arinze once told him that Communion in the hand “has been a disaster.”
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| 'Noli me Tangere' Corregio |
"Noli me tangere" - "Touch Me not", those words spoken by Christ to Mary Magdalen when he appeared to her after the Resurrection, have stayed with me for a
week and having "assisted" at the Latin Mass every day,
and enviously observed the acolyte receiving Holy Communion on the tongue, kneeling, I've seen that famous phrase in a new light.
week and having "assisted" at the Latin Mass every day,
and enviously observed the acolyte receiving Holy Communion on the tongue, kneeling, I've seen that famous phrase in a new light.
Our Lord spoke those words, said either Fr Laisney or Fr Johnson - I forget who - to raise the love of Mary, a woman of profound emotions, from the level of the
senses to that of the spirit.
Does that not relate also to the reception of Christ in Holy Communion? Our Lord wishes to raise us from the physical sphere to "the things that are above" (Col 3;2). That's one thing.
The other is that Christ is God, and as God He is beyond our grasp. We, like the Magdalen, are not to touch Him. Not in this life.
The courage of these SSPX priests in speaking out against the "covert
persecution" of this Government derives from their supernatural
point of view, a perspective offered by the Church to all the faithful, and which these priests have gained by celebrating the traditional Latin Mass and by its manner of receiving Communion.
Taking Communion in the hand in the context of the Latin Mass would be - to use
a fairly crass analogy - like introducing a bull into a china shop. It's terrible at the NO Mass, but simply impossible at the Latin Mass.
And incidentally, in the context of Covid-19, in a video interview with Dr Taylor Marshall, EWTN's past president Dan Burke maintains the rationale for receiving in the hand to reduce the risk of infection is, well, irrational. Radically irrational, he says.
"Ask any priest who's experienced in both the Latin Mass and the NO and they'll tell you it's way harder to avoid contact giving Communion in the hand. It's the way people hold their hand out, it's natural for it to be cupped.
"It's the demonic spirit of the age. It's cultural, it's Modernism."
It's scary to make the change, from standing to receive in the hand, to kneeling to receive on the tongue. Especially in parishes which are now the norm in the Church of Nice, where Father has been conditioned by years of the Novus Ordo, and by handing out the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ Our Lord like potato chips.
He has had his faith in the Eucharist so gradually eroded, Sunday by Sunday, that he hasn't even noticed it's gone.
The change to kneeling and receiving on the tongue is all very well for
certain types - no names, no pack drill - who are already looked at
sideways for being 'different', but in NZ there aren't a lot of them
about.
certain types - no names, no pack drill - who are already looked at
sideways for being 'different', but in NZ there aren't a lot of them
about.
In NZ, conditioned perhaps by those woolly creatures which
surround us and are once again, given Lockdown's
kiss of death to tourism, our nation's biggest
kiss of death to tourism, our nation's biggest
earner, we follow one another like - well, like sheep - up to
the shepherd at Communion time.
And we all copy one another in our manner of receiving, all
doing the same thing, just as sheep follow one another into a
smother and die.
And that's exactly what Dan Burke, following his own near-
death Covid-19 experience, suggests we're doing: that by picking up
Our Lord and Saviour, our Almighty God - with unwashed fingers! -
spiritually speaking we're taking our own eternal life.
So I shouldn't be flippant on this. Specially not when Burke calls the
sins." He calls the removal of the Sacraments from us "right and just",
since we have breathed the air of "sacrilege" and "irreverence",
especially at Mass, especially by taking Communion in the hand.
"Communion on the tongue is still the norm!" he
expostulates. And as author of nine books on spirituality and
as something of an expert in exorcism, he says there is a
demonic element in our "attachment" to receiving in the
hand.
Which makes sense, completely. Satan wouldn't want us to stop
taking Our Lord and God into our own hands. So to break the habit,
that attachment, more than anything else we need prayer. We
need to pray ourselves, and ask others to pray for us and since the
Government and bishops have cancelled public Masses, we should
pray the second most powerful prayer: the Rosary.
We can ask someone else to join us in the Communion
queue. Even better, ask several people. Present yourselves
for Communion as a group, one behind the other. Safety in
numbers!
Let's get ready for the day this MsGovernment tells us we can go back
to Mass.
(And when will that be? Tonight TvOne's Government propaganda
machine told us that on 'Level Three', if we're good, we'll be allowed
to have funerals. Where will they happen? Not in churches; they'll still
be locked. Faithful Catholics, don't die! Either you'll be popped in the
fridge or cremated, or your obsequies will be held in some dreadful
funeral parlour.)
to Mass.
(And when will that be? Tonight TvOne's Government propaganda
machine told us that on 'Level Three', if we're good, we'll be allowed
to have funerals. Where will they happen? Not in churches; they'll still
be locked. Faithful Catholics, don't die! Either you'll be popped in the
fridge or cremated, or your obsequies will be held in some dreadful
funeral parlour.)
Communicants who go down on their knees en masse (get
it?) might come as a shock to Father. Even the brave
reverend in Palmerston North who jerked a
communicant to her feet will be unnerved by group
action.
it?) might come as a shock to Father. Even the brave
reverend in Palmerston North who jerked a
communicant to her feet will be unnerved by group
action.
"Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our
death."
Go on, be a hero.
Let's do this!
Bob Gill says:
ReplyDeleteRe "Communion on the tongue is still the norm!" I don’t think many Catholics realise that Communion on the tongue is the norm and that most NZ Catholics, like those in some other countries, receive in the hand only because the country has been granted a indult - which can be withdrawn at any time and thus force all Catholics to revert to the aforementioned norm.
As I understand it, should Communion in the hand appear to encourage irreverence towards the Blessed Sacrament and lead to lack of belief in the Real Presence then grounds would exist to remove the indult.
There is sufficient evidence these days, I believe, that warrants removal of the indult, after observing the manner of how some receive. We must consider too the scientific evidence of particles of the Host being left on the hand after partaking.
On seeing local school children receiving in the hand only, it must surely mean that’s the only way schools are teaching them to receive. I suppose teachers receive instruction from the Palmerston North diocese to teach that way, but I’m just guessing. In any case, I don’t see our children receiving reverently.
I think the teachers at St Joseph's Dannevirke - like teachers at 'Catholic' schools around the country - wouldn't dream of teaching children to receive on the tongue. If the norm ever even occurred to them, they'd think it unhygienic and 'too hard', as a DRS once told me it was 'too hard' for small children to go down on both knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament exposed.
ReplyDeleteSo from the start, what children learn in 'Catholic' schools is not to make any special effort to adore their Almighty God in the Eucharist.