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Offline Seraphina

Re: Home - Aloneism
« Reply #30 on: Today at 01:28:34 AM »
What about when it’s the clergy who refuse the Sacraments to the faithful who’d otherwise receive them?  Sure, they probably won’t prohibit them from attending Mass, but if it means they cannot receive the Sacraments, it’s just as if they aren’t Catholic!  
What, too, of those whose life situation prevents them from “driving three hours” or from moving?  Some, cannot drive six hours and hear Mass in one day.  Some do not drive and public transportation in the US is nonexistent outside of a few major cities. 
For others, the finances are prohibitive. For example, if I wanted to hear Mass at my first choice of chapel, between tolls and 1 1/2 tanks of gas, it would cost approximately $130. That’s not including the collection, a pit stop, any incidental expenses. 
There are many who are unwillingly Home Alone, which is what I’d be if I didn’t go where I differ from the official “position.” 
“Don’t ask; don’t tell?” 
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Online Gray2023

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Re: Home - Aloneism
« Reply #31 on: Today at 06:46:13 AM »
Quote from: Seraphina on Today at 01:28:34 AM
What about when it’s the clergy who refuse the Sacraments to the faithful who’d otherwise receive them?  Sure, they probably won’t prohibit them from attending Mass, but if it means they cannot receive the Sacraments, it’s just as if they aren’t Catholic! 
What, too, of those whose life situation prevents them from “driving three hours” or from moving?  Some, cannot drive six hours and hear Mass in one day.  Some do not drive and public transportation in the US is nonexistent outside of a few major cities.
For others, the finances are prohibitive. For example, if I wanted to hear Mass at my first choice of chapel, between tolls and 1 1/2 tanks of gas, it would cost approximately $130. That’s not including the collection, a pit stop, any incidental expenses.
There are many who are unwillingly Home Alone, which is what I’d be if I didn’t go where I differ from the official “position.”
“Don’t ask; don’t tell?”
Priests who refuse the sacraments to people trying there best in this crisis are not being charitable. I understand they want to protect Christ, but they have no instruction from the Church to do this. 
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Offline Seraphina

Re: Home - Aloneism
« Reply #32 on: Today at 08:15:42 AM »
Quote from: Gray2023 on Today at 06:46:13 AM
Priests who refuse the sacraments to people trying there best in this crisis are not being charitable. I understand they want to protect Christ, but they have no instruction from the Church to do this.
True, but there’s nothing most of us can do about it. 
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Offline Ladislaus

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« Reply #33 on: Today at 10:53:14 AM »
Quote from: Gray2023 on Today at 06:46:13 AM
Priests who refuse the sacraments to people trying there best in this crisis are not being charitable. I understand they want to protect Christ, but they have no instruction from the Church to do this.

I think it's more than just uncharitable; they have absolutely no legal or canonical or moral right to withhold the Sacraments based on a controverted theological opinion.  They try to play the scandal game, where it would be tantamount to distributing Holy Communion to a woman who showed up in a bikini at the Commuion rail.  Not even close.

So, it's only the rights of the faithful to receive the Sacraments that legitimize their apostolate in the first place, and so when they set themselves up as judges who can impose their theological opinions on consciences, they ironically also lose any empowerment they might have had from the Church's "Suprema Lex" (aka the salvation of souls).
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