Catholic Church in England works fast to combat the common chalice
The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has advised Catholics with cold or flu symptoms to refrain from receiving Communion from the Chalice in order to help contain the spread of the coronavirus.Church of England urged to change Holy Communion over coronavirus fears
The Church of England has been urged to introduce measures to stop the spread of coronavirus at its services.
“People will probably remember the advice that came out back in 2009,
where it was possible for the sharing of the chalice to be suspended or
holy communion to be received in only one kind.
6 comments:
"I WAS RIGHT, THE COMMON CHALICE SPREADS DISEASE AND POSSIBLY A PANDEMIC, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ENGLAND FORBID THE COMMON CHALICE BECAUSE IT SPREADS CONTAGION!"
Nah, you weren't right.
“We are monitoring the situation very closely,” the Bishop of Carlisle said. “We are taking advice from the relevant medical authorities."
“But we are looking at the possibility of extreme circumstances and if there is a real danger, the legal advisory commission has said that good sense could mediate the necessity for a priest to celebrate Holy Communion on Sundays and major feast days. I sincerely hope we won’t be in that position.”
One word: INTINCTION.
Meanwhile, in reaction to coronavirus fears, coupled with a very active flue season with poorly performing vaccine selected for innoculation for this year, the USCCB is urging Catholics nationwide to curtail kissing strangers "in a pastoral abundance of caution".
The common chalice does spread the contagion...the contagion of ubiquitous and unnecessary Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion...the contagion of laypeople invading the sanctuary...the contagion of laicizing the priesthood...the contagion of bad catechesis by ignoring that both the Body AND the Blood of Christ are in the Host.
This disease is so widespread one hardly knows where to begin. Perhaps we can sing three more verses of "Here I am Lord" and He will reveal to us what we seem to have forgotten since about 1972 or so.
Strictly speaking, the Church of England does not have the option of offering HC in the species of bread alone. However, it is not obliged to celebrate the Eucharist on every Sunday, so the Bishop of Carlisle is talking about suspending the service of Holy Communion altogether.
Vatican Zero is spot on. The common chalice was never intended as routine by Vatican II and the Anglophone bishops exploited a loophole in order to encourage it, for reasons of their own, which were obvious at the time and are still so.
Allan, better batten down the hatches. A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN virus has been described in Brazil.
A mysterious 80 nm amoeba virus with a near-complete “ORFan genome” challenges the classification of DNA viruses
Here we report the discovery of Yaravirus, a new lineage of amoebal virus with a puzzling origin and phylogeny. Yaravirus presents 80 nm-sized particles and a 44,924 bp dsDNA genome encoding for 74 predicted proteins. More than 90% (68) of Yaravirus predicted genes have never been described before, representing ORFans. Only six genes had distant homologs in public databases: an exonuclease/recombinase, a packaging-ATPase, a bifunctional DNA primase/polymerase and three hypothetical proteins. Furthermore, we were not able to retrieve viral genomes closely related to Yaravirus in 8,535 publicly available metagenomes spanning diverse habitats around the globe. The Yaravirus genome also contained six types of tRNAs that did not match commonly used codons. Proteomics revealed that Yaravirus particles contain 26 viral proteins, one of which potentially representing a novel capsid protein with no significant homology with NCLDV major capsid proteins but with a predicted double-jelly roll domain. Yaravirus expands our knowledge of the diversity of DNA viruses. The phylogenetic distance between Yaravirus and all other viruses highlights our still preliminary assessment of the genomic diversity of eukaryotic viruses, reinforcing the need for the isolation of new viruses of protists.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.28.923185v1
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