The next one is, he says, in our new confraternity prayer, His Excellency refers to the Protestant shaping of the Holy Mass.
Could you explain or elaborate a little bit more on that part of the prayer?
Well, this is a wound in the Church, exactly the Protestant shaping of our liturgy.
This is evident. So in the vast majority of the Catholic parishes and churches all over the world
and in the monasteries
the Holy Mass, I mean the Novus Ordo, is celebrated facing the people. So like a Protestant meeting,
like
a meal, like a conference, a talk.
from the exterior form, the shape, I mean, it's already,
it's contrary to the entire Catholic tradition,
because all the apostolic tradition from the first centuries
and the fathers of the church,
always transmitted the prayers, the liturgy,
the priest and the people were facing the same direction,
to the Lord, to the East, or to the cross.
in the Church. And this changed radically. The Protestants introduced this because they
denied the sacrificial character of the Mass, and this form...
to around the table or facing one another like in a meal or like in a
conference is really Protestantizing. And then also the simplification of the
literary
and the, for example, that in the churches there is no more the visible division of science where is the priesthood, this is the sanctuary.
and with the communion rail and then the nave of the church which is the common priesthood and so
in so many churches the communion rail was destroyed and so even the new churches were
built in a way that there is almost no difference between the sanctuary sanctuary and the the nave
And this is a confusion in a Protestant style where there is only one priesthood,
no substantial difference between the ministerial priesthood
and the common priesthood of the faithful.
This is another example.
And
So, we have to return and to heal this wound.
Also
Great, thank you. One final question regarding the new prayer. A lot of people are
The forced or not forced but confronted with communion on the hand
And so when they get to the port where talks about the sacrilegious against the most holy Eucharist
Especially through the practice of communion on the hand
Could you speak to them?
some of them feel like they're sinning by receiving communion on the hand or they feel like conflicted like
This may be a new idea for them.
They've never heard from you,
even though you've repeated over and over again
about how it is sacrilegious to receive communion on hand.
Can you just speak to them and then praying this prayer?
In itself, the communion in hand is not sacrilegious, so one can receive in this much devotion
and face our Lord in the hand.
In this general scale, and this is promoted since 50 years in Catholic churches, it is truly exposing our Lord to a mass desecration,
because the small fragments of the Holy Host are falling down.
or sticking on the two fingers when people take the host, or on the palm of the hand,
or falling down and then trampled by feet.
This is a reality which nobody can deny. This is true. And this is horrible.
And therefore, if you have faith that there is our Lord in this little host,
is His, that the fullness of His divinity, and you believe this, and you love Him,
You could not take him with this form which is so unsure, which is so exposing to the
dangers.
And this is the first fundamental.
You will not do this, you will do all that you can to be more sure to take care and then
also.
The form is less relevant, objectively, than to kneel and to receive the tongue.
this form you take with your balls fingers
from your palm of your hand and put yourself in your mouth like a common
food yeah like you take a cake or something and from the table from your
hand and put in your mouth so this is more it's more approaching to a common
food taking
and less sacrality and sublimity, but when you kneel down as an adult person, when you
open your mouth like a little child, even like a baby.
This is not common.
This is not common food. This is extraordinary. It is sacred.
Here, in the hand of the priest, is Christ, who is feeding you, like your God, your Savior,
is feeding you like a little child, with all his love.
Our Lord said, if you will not become and convert like a little child and receive soul,
Kingdom of God, you will not enter.
And here we are receiving more than the Kingdom of God.
We are receiving the Lord Himself.
of the divinity in this little host, and so it is so logic, it is so natural to kneel
down and to open the mouth in humility of
child of, yes, and to receive it and not to expose our lot to such a danger is the communion
in hand.