Continuing where I left off...
Communion in the Hand
Communion in the hand contradicts the Church teaching enunciated by St. Thomas Aquinas, viz., "Out of reverence towards this Sacrament, nothing touches it but what is consecrated." Only the hands of a priest are consecrated. Communion in the hand was condemned in the 7th century to halt widespread abuses, and as a safeguard against sacrilege. However, Protestants adopted this practice "to manifest their belief that there is no such thing as Transubstantiation and Holy Orders, and the bread is just ordinary bread and the minister an ordinary man with no God-given power to consecrate."
Communion in the hand has given rise to various sacrileges and heresies. First it's the
justification for lay eucharistic ministers, including nuns. If a lay person could
receive Communion in his unconsecrated hands, then he could
distribute It to others. This immediately decreased reverence towards the Blessed Sacrament and other sacrileges followed: Consecrated Hosts left on pews, sometimes in pieces; carried in pockets; passed around the classroom; dropped on streets; sold on e-Bay; and easily procured for the ultimate profanation in Black Masses.
The second result of Communion in the hand is that once lay eucharistic ministers became the norm, the floodgates were opened to a torrent of other liturgical "ministries" that have contributed to the downgrading of the priesthood and to other heresies. These "ministries" are the back door to women's ordination.
The all-male priesthood is an affront the feminist concept of "equality," a concept derived from Communism and Masonry, and an error of Russia, about which Our Lady of Fatima warned. The feminist strategy is to involve females in other liturgical roles to prepare a climate of acceptance for priestesses, as congregations get used to seeing women around the altar.
(next up, the Feminist Agenda...)
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