Pope Francis out-benedicting Pope Benedict!! Hand Communion strongly discouraged at 16 June papal Mass!!!

Yes, Friends!

If you want to read about 'red shoes and mozettas and vestments', please do yourself a favor and click out of this blog! My focus is narrow.  I believe that Reform of the Reform must begin with Eucharistic reverence.  An extraodinary Mass with incense, vestments and even red shoes (!)  but  without kneeling Communion on the tongue will not 'move my dial'.

Today's (June 16, 2013) outdoor papal Mass had great potential to become a Holy Communion free-for-all!   That has been  what generally happens at outdoor papal Masses for the past 40 years or so.  But TODAY  'abrupt reminders', for people who held their hands out, abounded!  More than ever! [Maybe some of the priests who have been ignoring Msgr. M., hoping for his firing, read the blogs about him staying on!]

It seems that the Holy Father has not kept Msgr. G. Marini around just to throw traditionalists a bone!

You 'half-empty-glass' folks will no doubt be happy to remind me that there are still priests at the papal Mass who hand out Holy Communion any-old-way.  Msgr. Marini's remote control does not always work.  There will always be people-pleasers who will undermine Marini and Pope Francis.  Tune in at 1 hour 34 min and start counting the reminders.  Enjoy!!!  There is a new Pope in town!

Kneeling Catholic appeals to Holy Father Pope Francis for clarity!

Crickets have been reigning lately on this blog!

Truth is I was a 'taken aback' when the Holy Father had his first Communion kids stand for Holy Communion with him intincting the Host...but not using a paten.

Dear Pope Francis!

Thank you for not firing your papal master of ceremonies, Msgr.Marini!  I really do believe that some of the Cardinals who elected you did so in order to get rid of Msgr. Marini and thus do away with Pope Benedict's crusade to restore holy reverence to our Worship!  There were many of them who never did accept or respect Benedict's authority to lead Jesus Christ's Church and who seem to want to treat Church matters like a 'fut-bol' match.  They see you as one-of-them, hence their 'side' is winning and now they want to kick the ball for a while.

Such a view, and such behavior--reversing policies--then reversing those-- scandalizes the faithful because it undermines their belief that the Church is something more than a human organization that simply has various factions seizing control from time to time and then wanting us to follow them. The truth is many of those clerics clamoring  to 'lord it' over us and return us to the 1970s  have never followed anyone or anything excepting their own ideological agenda.

Sooner or later, your Holiness, you must answer the following question: Were Pope Benedict's liturgical reforms 'of God'?  How that question is answered will have a direct effect on how the Faithful view your authority as well as that of all the popes which follow you!

very respectfully and totally yours!

kneeling Catholic

Holy Father's Communion reform undermined by cowardly and inattentive priests!

Watching Holy Communion in today's Pentecost 'Lay Ecclesial Movements' Mass would make one think that Kneeling Catholic is making stuff up!..... i.e. this blog has claimed that Francis is trying to eradicate hand Communion.

(at today's Mass) 'Just look at all the priests handing out our Lord like He is popcorn or something!  AND Look at all the 'lay ecclesial people' strolling up and grabbing the Host and walking away without priests bothering to ensure that they consume the Host! (e.g. 1hour27min28sec)  Will no one wake these people up?!

Ah, but then--praise be to God! At 1hour27min46sec and 1hour28min04sec actually [[three times within a few seconds]], the camera catches people people being denied hand Communion.  The Holy Father's desire becomes evident.  How many times have we seen people refused hand Communion at Francis' Masses? (almost at least once within each papal Mass' broadcast [[3, maybe 4 times in this broadcast  (!!!)--also at 1hour26min15sec ).

...How many times were people corrected-on-camera for irreverent reception of the Eucharist under Pope Benedict? ( once during his entire pontificate).  Benedict's desire for reverence before the Holy Eucharist was well known...but he was reluctant to use any admonishment....remember how Queen Sofia of Spain man-handled the Holy Father?  [http://kneelingcatholic.blogspot.com/2010/12/her-highness-gets-little-higher.html]   As I pointed out in last week's post.....'there's a new Pope in town'.

Our new Holy Father is 'big' on the 'acts of Charity', two of which are: 'admonish sinners' and 'instruct the ignorant'.  It is not cruel to expect Catholics to 'wake up a little bit' when approaching the Holy Eucharist.  Rather, it is an act of charity!!  I really believe Eucharistic reverence must be the first step for Catholics who seem to have drifted into no-man's-land.  'Body-English' needs to match what we believe in our hearts....or at least what we SHOULD believe.

Am I being too judgmental --attributing 'cowardice and inattention' to priests who no doubt have been instructed to correct hand communicants but continue to do 'whatever'.?   How do I know this 'instruction' exists?  Deduction!  i.e. no priest would dare go against the crowd clamoring for hand Communion, --as we see happening at almost every papal Mass now-- without the Holy Father's backing.  

Thanks to 'Picasso' of Gloria.tv for this image!!!!

more thanks to anyone who can tell me where this photo came from!!

Pope Francis is eradicating hand Communion

In an earlier post,  yours truly lamented how Pope Francis' outdoor Masses seemed
to be relaxing reverence for the Blessed Sacrament....  not in
comparison with Benedict's and JPII's -whose were quite dreadful per se, but rather with Francis' own high
standard which he himself has set for ' indoor Masses [e.g.  zero hand Communion from
Pope with even the ordained kneeling to receive from the Holy Father,  people  being abruptly reminded to receive on the tongue  ]

I think I spoke too soon!  At the Sunday 12 May canonization
Mass...held outdoors, the Franciscan 'abrupt reminders' were back out in force and caught on camera @ 130min 30sec!!!  There were some priests who still did 'their own thing' and passed out our Lord like Mardi Gras tootsie rolls, one of these distributed to physically and mentally handicapped persons.  (I agree with not embarrassing such people!)   Hand communicants were definitely a very tiny (and shrinking) minority of those caught on camera.

Earlier predictions by traditionalists and progressives, that Francis would...
1) fire Mons. Guido Marini, and replace him with 'dancing-girls-Marini'.
2) roll back Benedict's 'reform of the reform'
3) hold outdoor balloon Masses and (and ordain women and declare sodomy legitimate)
have not materialzed....

As even the pessimistic Rorate Caeli bloggers have stated:  we have little to make predictions from other than from what has already happened  e.g. today we would be blind and irresponsible not to note that we had.....

1) maintenance of the Benedictine altar arrangement
2) Gospel chanted in Latin.
3) The Holy Father reciting the Mass in Latin--(yes, 'pro multis')
4)  The congregation and choir reciting the Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Pater Noster, Agnus Dei in Latin.
5) The Pope's communicants kneeling to receive and an 'abrupt reminder' to one poor lady who apparently forgot  that there's a new pope in town!

People like Seenyor Boffo and others who try to use Cardinal Bergoglio to assure us about what Pope Francis will 'really do', have already earned themselves a place with Dante's buttocks facing hall-of-famers.  My advice to them, and to me, is:  'watch and learn'! (and leave the psychic stuff to real professionals ........