Posted By: Rick H
Pope returns to old way of distributing Communion... - 06/26/08 05:57 PM
Pope returns to old way of distributing Communion
"...A papal aide says Pope Benedict XVI intends to return to the old way of distributing Communion at Masses.
Benedict's master of liturgical ceremonies said in an interview Wednesday in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the pontiff will place the Communion host in the mouths of the faithful who kneel before him.
That's how Roman Catholics received Communion in the years before the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The reforms made it possible for faithful to take the host in their hands while standing....The aide, Monsignor Guido Marini, says that distributing Communion the old way helps faithful be devout...."
Looks like they will have to again worship the pontiff literally on their knees...
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf...t=international
"...A papal aide says Pope Benedict XVI intends to return to the old way of distributing Communion at Masses.
Benedict's master of liturgical ceremonies said in an interview Wednesday in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the pontiff will place the Communion host in the mouths of the faithful who kneel before him.
That's how Roman Catholics received Communion in the years before the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The reforms made it possible for faithful to take the host in their hands while standing....The aide, Monsignor Guido Marini, says that distributing Communion the old way helps faithful be devout...."
Looks like they will have to again worship the pontiff literally on their knees...
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf...t=international