The Answer to Pachamama Is to Kneel and Receive Communion on the Tongue.
The Answer to Pachamama Is to Kneel and Receive Communion on the Tongue
There is one effective means to contrast the paganization of the Church: A return to receiving communion kneeling and on the tongue. Cardinal Robert Sarah writes about this in his preface to Father Frederico Bortoli’s book: The distribution of Communion in the Hand. It was recently released in French.
Sarah does not recommend receiving Communion in the hand because this involves a great dispersion of fragments while attention to the smallest particles professes faith in the real presence of Christ. If Jesus is the substance of the Eucharistic bread then it does not matter whether a piece of the host is large or small, Sarah writes.
The Cardinal stresses cultivating reverence and a sense of the sacred. Thus, receiving Holy Communion on the tongue and on one's knees, must be promoted. He recalls how John Paul II, destroyed by his disease, always …More