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Abuse. Blasphemy. Communion in the hand?

“’I’m heartbroken to announce that last week, we discovered a crushed consecrated Host beneath one of the kneelers,’ the pastor of a small yet devout Californian parish says. He pauses for a moment before he goes on, his voice choked by just indignation and sadness: ‘This is God, people. God.’ Then he drops the bomb. ‘I’m writing to Pope Francis to do away with the practice of Communion in the hand altogether. I believe most of the abuses and blasphemies that the Eucharist has undergone is because of this practice.’”

St Teresa says that anyone who wishes to give himself to prayer with profit must make “an earnest and most determined resolve not to halt” on the way he has chosen. This means that we must give ourselves to prayer, not for a stated time only, but at all times, every day, all our life; let us not be dissuaded from prayer for any reason whatsoever. “Come what may, happen what will, let those complain who will, tire yourself as you must, but even if you die half-way along the road … tend always toward the goal.” (Way of Perfection, 21).

(Source: catholic-pages.com)

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