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Gregorio Sarto

Posted: Nov 2 2009, 06:20 PM

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QUOTE (MrsPogle @ Oct 31 2009, 12:43 PM)

[...] The lady who takes me to Latin Mass only goes to that Mass, and feels God understands her predicament. But I cannot imagine only receiving Christ in the Eucharist once a month! [...]

Why? Regular and frequent communion is very much a 20th century developement anyway...

I remember Michael Davies said a similar thing when Westminster Cathedral started refusing Holy Communion to people if they knelt down: - so be it, go without. Look on it as one of the necessary sacrifices one must make in order to stay truly faithful to Our Lord.

If the state passed a law that one were to be allowed to attend Mass only if one committed a vlie act odf blaspmemy (for example) or worship a false god (to use another from Ancient Rome), then one would hope that very few Catholics would end up getting to Mass, or none at all!

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I also have a problem being a EMHC. I'm not sure I should be, because that doesn't feel right either.

Quite an understatement, Mrs P - you emphatically shouldn't be!

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But should I be making decisions on what feels right?

No, ideally you shold decide based on what you know to be right. But one has to educate one's conscience before one can use it properly, and in the absence of knowing right from wrong, one can follow one's feeling. Provided it is a genuine instinct, a Sensus Fidei, and not just some Hollywood emotionalism, for example...

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I don't understand why, if extraordinary ministers are extraordinary, why are they used all the time?

Because in this abominable age into which we have had the misfortune to be born, the "corridors of power" in the Church are infested with a lot of very unscrupulous men whose agenda is not that of serving Our Lord, but another quite different...

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QUOTE (MrsPogle @ Oct 31 2009, 12:43 PM)

[...] The lady who takes me to Latin Mass only goes to that Mass, and feels God understands her predicament. But I cannot imagine only receiving Christ in the Eucharist once a month! [...]

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I also have a problem being a EMHC. I'm not sure I should be, because that doesn't feel right either.

Quite an understatement, Mrs P - you emphatically shouldn't be!

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But should I be making decisions on what feels right?

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I don't understand why, if extraordinary ministers are extraordinary, why are they used all the time?

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I also resigned from being an EMHC and felt a great weight fall from my shoulders.

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I also have a problem being a EMHC. I'm not sure I should be, because that doesn't feel right either.

Quite an understatement, Mrs P - you emphatically shouldn't be!

You'll be pleased to know that MrsP resigned. She said so a few posts back:

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I also resigned from being an EMHC and felt a great weight fall from my shoulders.

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QUOTE (MrsPogle @ Oct 31 2009, 10:19 AM)

Thanks for your helpful reply, Berengaria
Could anyone direct me as to where I could obtain a dvd of the Latin Mass?

Log on to "Youtube", address below for a selection of Latin Masses

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...=traditional+la

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QUOTE (MrsPogle @ Oct 31 2009, 07:43 AM)

Since I have been going to the Traditional Latin Mass, I find it harder to attend a N.O. Mass

It's just not the same, made worse by the fact that in my Parish Church there is very little reverence shown before Mass and the chatter is of a level that makes it sound like Costa Coffee on a Saturday afternoon!

The problem is, there is only a Latin Mass that I can get to once a month. So what do I do to fulfil my obligation on the other 3 Sundays? The lady who takes me to Latin Mass only goes to that Mass, and feels God understands her predicament. But I cannot imagine only receiving Christ in the Eucharist once a month! I do sometimes go to another N.O. Mass during the week at a Church not in my town, and that is better, as there is an attitude of quiet reverence and prayerfulness ~ but it's still not the same.

I also have a problem being a EMHC. I'm not sure I should be, because that doesn't feel right either. But should I be making decisions on what feels right? Rather, I would like to know what is right. I don't understand why, if extraordinary ministers are extraordinary, why are they used all the time? Should a layperson offer Christ's holy blood to others? More often than not, at an N.O. Mass I receive the host only (and on the tongue). My priest has already asked me not to genuflect in front of him before receiving

so I do it in the aisle before proceeding to the front of the line.

I am on the list to be an EMHC tonight, but don't know whether to phone someone and ask them to replace me. I feel torn. If anyone can answer these 2 questions for me, or at least point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful.

Mrs.P x

Well, you can form a carpool with someone who drives all the way to the closest weekly Mass on Sundays.

I go with a friend every Sunday and the trip takes around an hour to get there. Pitch in for gas if necessary.

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QUOTE (MrsPogle @ Oct 31 2009, 10:19 AM)

Thanks for your helpful reply, Berengaria
Could anyone direct me as to where I could obtain a dvd of the Latin Mass?

Log on to "Youtube", address below for a selection of Latin Masses

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...=traditional+la

Log onto Rorate Caeli for new post on: The PCED "Official" Guide to the Mass: Some Videos now on Youtube

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/

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