Fatima Cardinal Imposes Communion in Hand - Makes Fool Out of Himself

en.news6 years ago

Fatima Cardinal Imposes Communion in Hand - Makes Fool Out of Himself

Mercilessly, Fatima Cardinal António Marto, 73, Portugal, refused the petition of 500 people asking to receive Communion properly [on the tongue] despite the coronavirus.

Marto made a fool out of himself by telling PontoSJ.pt (May 29) that “Jesus said ‘take and eat’ - take it; he didn’t say ‘open your mouth’.” However, Jesus said this to his apostles, not to the faithful, who receive the Holy Sacrament from them.

For Marto, 500 convinced Catholics don't represent a “very significant” reality in the Church and in his secularised country. He regrets that faithful question the “bishops’ own faith,” although this faith all too often questionable.

In his aversion against the proper reception of Communion Marto also comes up with the self-defeating argument that there is “so much dirt in the mouths” - while overlooking that this is likewise an "argument" against Communion in the hand which eventually also ends up in the mouth.

The petition argues that the illegal prohibition of Communion on the tongue “seriously undermines the norms of the Catholic Church [which have become a paper tiger] and goes against the reverence due to the Eucharist.”

Picture: António Marto, © wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsIevyfcvyls

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Jmy19756 years ago

There were and are many horrible bishops and priests who worked against the Church and received communion on the tongue. They followed the custom, but didn't it make them holier? Christ fed his disciples when hungry on the Sabbath.
I will consume Christ by the hand and not throw a fit if I can't do it by tongue. It's the intent of the repository of Christ, the soul, that matters.
You can be extremely reverent and receive by the hand, and live your life like a degenerate and receive it on the tongue.
I'd rather go receive Jesus in Novus Ordo than not receive Him at all.

Scapular6 years ago

Thank you and I can see you have real concern. You love and understand the Blessed Sacrament must be guarded.
Our Lord places Himself precariously at the total control of man.
This Brother is the problem. How many Sacred Fragments are caused and dropped—even when the Host is given as reverently as possible?
The Roman Catechism, p.233 “that in this Sacrament are contained not only the true body of Christ and all the constituents of a true body, such as bones and sinews, but also Christ, whole and entire” and further that, page 239 “the body of our Lord is contained whole and entire under the least particle of the bread.”
Can you knowingly partake condone a practice that drops Our Lord on the carpet destined to end up helplessly in the vacuum bag for months until final destruction?
We care about Our Lord but not that much?
Gal 2:11 But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
If something is wrong I wouldn’t even obey the Pope that is not the mind of the Church. When the Pope is in conformity with the continuous mind of the Church then we obey.
When in 1960’s communion in the hand was identified as an abuse for all the above reasons and more how can an abuse ever become worthy? Judge things by worldly standards. How would the world take Holy Communion? My ways are not your ways.

Rafał_Ovile6 years ago

Jmy1975 1. normative distribution of Communion kneeling and on the tongue is logical and practical consequence of Eucharistic Doctrine on the Real Presence formulated in five canons in the Council of Trent. 2. Human being is composition of flesh and soul. Therefore these natures always accord and never contradict. Disposition should be prerequisite as reverence in the heart and in the form of the body. 3. Layman is forbidden to touch Holy Communion as consecrated Hosts should touch the consecrated matter in harmony of supernatural nature. The hands of the priest are consecrated. Only in real extra ordinary situation, i.e. death a layman could be potentially allowed to touch Holy Host. 4. One may find potentially good and bad person in any circumstances, Novus Ordo or LTM, which is irrelevant to the real act of reverence of God in the Holy Communion in the perfect form genuflecting and receiving on the tongue.

DrMaria6 years ago

Pray that this cleric is removed from Fatima, by the Lord HimSelf - Marto has overseen the destruction of so much of the Sacred at Our Lady's Holy Shrine in Fatima - volumes could be written on this!

DEFENSA DE LA FE6 years ago

Bergoglio should be ousted.

Rafał_Ovile6 years ago

Ousted from Casa Santa Marta? ps Pope Benedict XVI apartment is not occupied.

rhemes15826 years ago

"500 Catholics don't represent a very significant reality"?
Numbers determine reality for this man?
Jesus and 12 Apostles only add up to 13.
Catholics understand reality is not based on numbers.
I Love You Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of The Altar.
It becomes more clear every day why Heaven had the Angel of Fatima teach the 3 children the prayer of reparation for sins against The Most Blessed Sacrament

foward6 years ago

The 500 must know that the hierarchy in the Church has been usurped at its highest levels. If you ask Judas for the Catholic faith, you already know the answer.