Plead with the Holy Father to ban Communion in the hand throughout the world

Plead with the Holy Father to ban Communion in the hand throughout the world!

"Communion in the hand has not been, and will not be accepted by Heaven. This is a sacrilege in the eyes of the Eternal Father, and must not be continued, for you only add to your punishment when you continue on in the ways that have been found to be unpleasing to the Eternal Father." - Our Lady, June 30, 1984

Pope John Paul II is writing a new encyclical on the Holy Eucharist, and many hope that the Holy Father will take this opportunity to ban Communion in the hand throughout the world. Truly, there has been a catastrophic loss of faith in the Real Presence worldwide, in large part due to the practice of Communion in the hand.

We are attempting to bring to the Holy Father a dossier of reported cases of sacrilegious acts that have occurred against the Holy Eucharist as a result of Communion in the hand. Children playing with the Host in the pews, Hosts in water fonts, sacred Particles falling to the ground, people stealing the Host, loss of faith in the Real Presence, and many more sacrilegious acts have occurred through the occasion of Communion in the hand.

Please, take time and write to us telling of incidents that you have witnessed, and we will bring this information to the Holy Father’s attention. If enough people defend Our Eucharistic Lord, and enough people sacrifice and pray, by God’s grace Pope John Paul II will ban this abusive and irreverent practice of Communion in the hand. Please click on the link following this paragraph, where we ask that you give us as many incidents as you can recall, that should be brought to the Holy Father’s attention. Please give us the city and state, approximate date, and your name (or initials, at least). As Fr. John Hardon has said, “Whatever you can do to stop Communion in the hand will be blessed by God.”

Click here to send a message to the Holy Father, to stop Communion in the hand…

Pope Paul VI: "It [Communion in the hand] carries certain dangers with it which may arise from the new manner of administering holy Communion: the danger of a loss of reverence for the August sacrament of the altar, of profanation, of adulterating the true doctrine."

Consilium, 1965: “The Holy Father [Pope Paul VI] … does not consider it opportune that the sacred Particle be distributed in the hand and later consumed in different manners by the faithful, and therefore, he vehemently exhorts [that] the Conference offer the opportune resolutions so that the traditional manner of communicating be restored throughout the world.” (October 12, 1965 letter of the “Consilium” to Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands)

Bishop Juan Rodolfo Laise (San Luis, Argentina): “With Communion in the hand, a miracle would be required during each distribution of Communion to avoid some Particles from falling to the ground or remaining in the hand of the faithful…. Let us speak clearly: whoever receives Communion in the mouth not only follows exactly the tradition handed down but also the wish expressed by the last Popes and thus avoids placing himself in the occasion of committing a sin by negligently dropping a fragment of the Body of Christ.”

Bishop Bernard D. Steward (Sandurst, Australia): “Children are known to have fiddled with the Sacred Host placed into their hands at Holy Communion; adults have been seen to pass the Blessed Sacrament from one to the other in a queue. Rightly does the Sacred Congregation ask whether such people who act like this really believe in the Real Presence of Christ. One must pass over in appalled silence the unspeakable abominations of demonism when the Sacred Host is sacrilegiously carried off to the satanic rituals of black masses. Sacrileges have occurred in the past and will occur in the future. But today the Holy See testifies that they are numerous and widespread; it also says that Communion in the traditional manner [on the tongue] is a better safeguard against adulteration of doctrine and profanation.”

Cardinal Carberry: “We are facing again another struggle in our Bishops’ Conference in May [1977]. It has been decided, for the third time now, that we have to talk about Communion in the hand…. So I would be grateful beyond words for any way that you could possibly help by prayer. I’m thinking, I know I can use a great deal of canonical reasons and law and the rest of it, but you don’t get very far with these. People don’t seem to want to listen to this kind of reasoning. But some kind of reasoning that would reach into the hearts of the Bishops, and to place it, I hope, on the basis of danger of irreverence to the Most Blessed Sacrament which is growing and growing and growing throughout our country. And if any of you have any reading matter on this, or any thoughts on how it could be presented; ways that it could be presented; ways that it could be presented before us, I would be so grateful to hear and receive any suggestions. And I pray most earnestly to our Most Blessed Mother that the beautiful prayer, ‘O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine’ might be an ejaculation of all of us who want to preserve the reverence and devotion by the traditional way of receiving Communion, which has the blessing of our Holy Father, the Pope.” (Cardinal Carberry, St. Louis, Missouri, March 12, 1977)

St. Thomas Aquinas: “… because out of reverence towards this sacrament [the Blessed Sacrament], nothing touches it but what is consecrated, hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament. Hence it is not lawful for anyone to touch it, except from necessity, for instance if it were to fall upon the ground, or else in some other case of urgency" (SummaTheologica, III, Q. 82, Art. 13).

Mother Teresa of Calcutta: “Wherever I go in the whole world, the thing that makes me the saddest is watching people receive Communion in the hand."

Dietrich von Hildebrand: "Is it believable that instead of applying the most scrupulous care to protect the most sacred consecrated host, which is truly the Body of Christ, the God-man, from all such possible abuses, there are those who wish to expose it to this possibility? Have we forgotten the existence of the devil who wanders about seeking whom he may devour'? Is his work in the world and in the Church not all too visible today? What entitles us to assume that abuses to the consecrated host will not take place?" The Holy Eucharist

Fr. John Hardon, SJ: “Behind Communion in the hand—I wish to repeat and make as plain as I can—is a weakening, a conscious, deliberate weakening of faith in the Real Presence.”

O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine!

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