Quote from: Nadir

Quote from: JMacQ

... communion on Sunday was given before and after the mass.

Why so? I've never heard the like before.

The priest used give St Catherine Emerich communion every day outside of mass while she was in the convent so that the other sisters sould not remark on it.

JMacQ meant "before and after the Mass in the Church". Priests bring Holy Communion to the sick at home as well. That is not what we are discussing.

In The Little Story of my Long Life by Archbishop Lefebvre, he mentions how, when he was a child, the priest in his local parish distributed Communion every 15 minutes from 5.15am until 9am for those who had to go to work and didn't have time to get to Mass. His parents could usually get to Mass, but if not, they still received Communion. The midnight fast would, of course, have been the practice back then.

I've long advocated this practice to Traditional priests, but if falls on deaf ears.  Priests just have their 9AM Mass (when people need to be at work by then) and then don't care about people who can't make it.  It's sad when even Traditional priests have such little solicitude for souls.  I would do the same thing, offer Holy Communion regularly and then even in the evening have an hour of adoration with benediction, confessions, and Holy Communion at the end.  But priests don't want to be bothered.

I've always adhered to the traditional Eucharistic Fast from midnight since I was a child in Catholic school, even in the the early days of the N.O. in the seventies before all hell really broke loose. The "traditional" priests used to demand no food or drink after midnight if you were going to Communion at Mass the next day. And, oh, you were going to Mass, no excuses need apply.

So usually on average, I'm done eating by 5 oclock in the afternoon on Saturday because we usually eat an early dinner and maybe a snack once in a while around seven at night, but rarely, Then nothing until after 12 noon TLM Mass if I'm going to recieve, which is usually. It's my family schedule that gets in the way once in a while more than anything, but fasting is not an issue.

I think twelve to fifteen hrs on avaerage when half that is sleeping is not  much to ask for the average communicant who is generally healthy and stable. The problem is we live in a very undisciplined and pampered culture used to instant self-gratification with almost no conception of sacrifice and self-denial.


For what it's worth, the muzzies fast from sun-up to sundown for thirty days straight , while abstaining from not only food or drink, but cigarettes and sex as well, some will not even engage in backbiting, disagreements or swearing as to break the fast And that's just during Ramadan, when during the summer months, can be a long day without anything.

We shouldn't let infidels like that show us what devotion is all about.