Quote from: Ladislaus 9/15/2023, 9:51:24 AM
But we're also disputing the allegation made by Sean that Communion in the hand was the "norm" and was almost universally practice in the "early Church". There's no evidence whatsoever for this. It's based almost exclusively on a single, disputed quote from St. Cyril, disputed both in terms of its authenticity and also its meaning (since he's speaking in mystical terms, about the eyes touching the Blessed Sacrament, which probably means looking at the Blessed Sacrament). Even Catholic Answers states that this is no evidence that the practice was in any way "widespread", as Sean has alleged. This narrative that Communion in the hand was widespread, the "norm", was developed by the Modernists in the spirit of Antiquarianism to push the practice.
You live in a fantasy world which CRIMESTOPS all thoughts which threaten the alternate reality you’ve created.
I’ve provided evidence several times, and take the opportunity to do so again, that CITH was widespread, both during and long after the persecution ended:
From the Catholic Encyclopedia (see the article on "Genuflexion"):
"That, in the early Church, the faithful stood when receiving into their hands the
consecrated particle can hardly be questioned.
Cardinal Bona indeed (Rer. Liturg., H, xvii, 8) hesitates somewhat as to Roman usage; but declares that in regard to the East there can be no
doubt whatever. He inclines moreover to the view that at the outset the same practice obtained in the West (cf. Bingham, XVI, v).
St. Dionysius of Alexandria, writing to one of the
popes of his time, speaks emphatically of "one who has stood by the table and has extended his hand to receive the Holy Food" (
Eusebius,
Church History VII.9). The custom of placing the Sacred Particle in the mouth, rather than in the hand of the communicant, dates in
Romefrom the sixth, and in Gaul from the ninth century (Van der Stappen, IV, 227; cf.
St. Gregory, Dial., I, III, c. iii)."
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06423a.htm