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The Diocese of Charleston has advised priests to be vigilant about the distribution of the Host at Holy Communion time so that no one steals the Host or leaves without having placed the Host in their mouth.
While I am sure that in the days in which Catholics were required to kneel and receive Holy Communion on the tongue, one could, presumably, take the Host out of their mouth once they got up for nefarious purposes.
Holy Communion standing, on the run and receiving on the hand has made taking the Host elsewhere quite common and easier to do.
Every priest I know has found consecrated Hosts on the floor, in hymnals/missalettes and we know that people take the Host home. I have seen parishioners with small children break a piece of the Host off to give to their toddler.
I have had an altar server notice someone take a Host back to the pew and he went with a deacon to the person, who opened her purse and gave the Host to the deacon!
Wake up bishops of the USA and around the world. The problem with the desecration of the Host, either intentional or not, is the manner in which Holy Communion is distributed which contributes to the possibility of this desecration as it has contributed to the decline in reverence for the Lord's Eucharistic presence.
Like the Atlanta area, Augusta where I was pastor of The Church of Most Holy Trinity for 13 years, had/has Satanic and Wiccan cults. We found a cat which was sacrificed on the Church's property by the office entrance adjacent to the Church. It had been dismembered.
We had people snatch the Host form Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and bolt from the Church immediately.
In light of the Atlanta black Mass, Friday, October 25, the Diocese of Charleston sent this to all their priests:
Increased vigilance in communion distributionTo: All priests We have been informed by our colleagues in the Archdiocese of Atlanta that an act of satanic worship (a so-called black “mass”) may take place in the Atlanta area on Oct. 25, which involves the desecration of a sacred Host stolen by someone who attended Mass, received Holy Communion, and walked out of the church with the Blessed Sacrament for this sacrilegious purpose. As priests in persona Christi, there is nothing more disturbing than the desecration of the Holy Body of our brother, savior and king. Let us renew an increased vigilance in every parish. Please instruct any extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion to ensure that receiving parishioners and visitors consume the host prior to returning to their seats. Please encourage your parish to continue to pray the rosary during this Month of the Holy Rosary to beg for assistance from the Mother of Sorrows and Queen of Peace. I encourage you to pray that this blasphemous event will not proceed and for the conversion of all hearts. I invite you to consider fasting in reparation for all offenses against the holy Eucharist. At Masses this week, as we elevate the body of Christ, let us look upon him and remember the perfect duty and supreme honor placed on us to safeguard the body, blood, soul and divinity of all that we cherish and adore. May we never tire of proclaiming, defending and upholding Jesus, the Christ. My Lord and my God, have mercy! |
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Father McDonald, thank you for your important post.
From: Our Sunday Visitor: One hour ago:
-- Atlanta archbishop calls for prayers of reparation in face of satanic temple’s ‘black mass’
ATLANTA (OSV News) — Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Atlanta has called on all Catholics to counter — with prayers of reparation and penance — the sacrilege of a so-called “black mass” being organized by the satanic temple of Atlanta and scheduled to take place Oct. 25.
He called on all Catholics of the Archdiocese of Atlanta “to face this attack to our faith through prayer, penance and prayers of reparation. I am asking that each parish conduct a Eucharistic Holy Hour with Benediction to honor the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, ideally on Friday, October 25, at 9 p.m., or between now and October 25 as an act of reparation to this proposed sacrilege.”
“We commend our efforts to the Lord through the loving intercession of Mary, the Mother of God,” he concluded.
On its website, the archdiocese posted suggested prayers of reparation in English and Spanish: “An Act of Reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament” and a “Litany of Reparation in Honor of the Blessed Sacrament.”
“Jesus, my God, my Savior, true God and true Man, with that most profound homage with which the faith itself inspires me,” the reparation prayer says, “I adore and love you with my whole heart, enclosed in the most august Sacrament of the Altar, in reparation for all the acts of irreverence, profanation, and sacrilege committed."
"Jesus, my God, my all , I adore you, I love you, and I praise you every moment, in the most holy and divine Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. I adore you every moment, O living Bread of Heaven, Great Sacrament!”
Pax.
Mark Thomas
-- UPDATE: Satanic Temple denies it intends to desecrate the Eucharist during planned ‘black mass’
By Jonah McKeown
CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2024 / 17:20 pm
The so-called Satanic Temple on Thursday denied that it intends to use a consecrated host during a sacrilegious “black mass” event scheduled for this evening.
The Archdiocese of Atlanta has since confirmed that “a representative for The Satanic Temple of Atlanta has now provided us with their assurances that they do not have, and will not be using at their event tonight, a consecrated host.”
Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer of Atlanta in a Friday statement said that archdiocesan legal representatives reached out to the venue and organizers of the event to “demand that, if they had any consecrated hosts in their possession, they return them and not use them in their black mass.”
“We were prepared to seek a court order if such a host was determined to be in the hands of the satanic group. The Satanic Temple of Atlanta, through their attorney, responded saying they had no such consecrated host and no such consecrated host would be used in their black mass,” Hartmayer reported.
“While their letter continued to mock the Eucharist and our beliefs, it also demonstrated an understanding of how seriously we have taken this threat to our core belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. They called their event entertainment and defended their right to express their beliefs by mocking ours.”
Pax.
Mark Thomas
They will try anything to stop the desecration except the one thing that would be most effective. Our "leaders"!
They may be a atheist group that is mocking Christians but could they be Useful Idiots being used by Satan to actually perform a black mass?
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