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The other day the Arch of the Windy City made it clear in his archdiocesan paper that he didn’t want people to kneel to receive Communion, because – get this – it’s against tradition. Yes, that’s his argument. Here it is in a nut shell (and I do mean nut): Communion time involves a procession, processions are traditional, stopping to kneel is contrary to the procession, therefore kneeling is against tradition. You can’t make this stuff up.
In any event, this nonsense has been refuted by Edward Feser HERE
Cardinal Cupich’s concerns are about procedural efficiency and human community. The Eucharist is about communion with God, which infinitely outweighs such considerations – and the awareness that it does is precisely what the practice of kneeling helps inculcate.
and Anthony Esolen HERE.
Even at that, he’s wrong, dead wrong, about the sense of human community. At the Communion rail, you will have an experience you will otherwise never have, and it will be precisely one of community: kneeling beside a stranger, while the Lord approaches, and not having to worry about stepping on his shoes or getting out of his way. You can see people’s faces as they receive. He is dead wrong. I won’t speculate as to how he came to be so insensible to such moments.
Furthermore, the Holy See made it crystal clear that the faithful ALWAYS have the right to kneel to receive, and to receive on the tongue, in Redemptionis Sacramentum.
?Just in: Archaeologists have discovered new evidence of Christianity from the early third century near Frankfurt, Germany.
A scroll was found reading “Saint Titus”: “Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God!” pic.twitter.com/bwXm85pl9q
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Anthony Esolen also added, “Without my saying anything about the particular man in question, the combination you have in mind is dreadful: individualism of the zipper and of those vices that rot out the family; corporatism otherwise.” Is he saying what I think he is saying?
Have any exorcists ever made any comments about some of the left-wing, progressive, pharisaical, princes of the church?
The scroll was an amulet worn around the neck, found in a burial. Very interesting story.
https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/frankfurt-silver-inscription-oldest-christian-testimony-found-north-of-the-alps/
The archeologist, Dr Markus Scholz, in the article linked in the previous comment about the amulet/scroll (thank you PostCatholic!), explains the inscription is written entirely in LATIN, which he said was unusual for the time, 230-270 AD, as normally inscriptions were in Greek or Hebrew.
It was found in 2018 and only very recently they were able to access technology that enabled it to be read and translated and just in time for Christmas:
“In the name?) of Saint Titus.
Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God! …..May this means of salvation(?) protect the man who surrenders himself to the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, since before Jesus Christ bend all knees: the heavenly ones, the earthly and the subterranean , and every tongue confess (to Jesus Christ)”.
Another article that may be of interest:
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-800-year-old-silver-amulet-could-rewrite-history-of-christianity-in-the-early-roman-empire