Communion in Hand Great Wound

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Auxiliary Bishop Schneider 
on der Homepage of the
Shrine of Maria Vesperbild.
 


(kreuz.net)  “The more committees, the more proceedings, the more fear of public opinion and the politically correct, the less there will be real reforms in the Church.”

This is what Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider from Astana in Kazakhstan said on Pentecost Sunday at the Swabian pilgrimage Maria Vesperbild.

For Msgr Schneider it is “more than clear that the Church has experienced a great crisis.”

Communion is Handed out Like Bread

The crisis  shows itself in its most gripping in the declining Liturgy, for the prelate:  “Today’s manner of receiving Communion spread throughout the world is a great wound.”

The body of Christ has been received “without recognizable sacral gestures of worship”.

Hand communion leaves one with the impression as if one is taking a regular meal, which “one puts in ones’ own mouth”.

 

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