WHO TAKES AND EATS; WHO TAKES AND DRINKS? THE BISHOP OR PRIEST ALONE, OR THE LAITY?

This is taking Holy Communion:

This is receiving Holy Communion:

Only the Catholic priest in the east or the west should "TAKE and eat" TAKE and drink" to complete the Sacramental aspect of the One Sacrifice celebrated in an unbloody way. Laity must RECEIVE!

On my previous post about Catholic laity using the term "taking Communion" and if that is appropriate or not, since I think the laity "receive" Holy Communion, there was this comment with my astute comment which follows:

Anonymous said...

TAKE this all of you and eat of it....

TAKE this all of you and drink from it....

October 12, 2017 at 6:26 AM

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Dear TAKE! Thanks for this comment because it points out a major deficiency of many Catholics about what Jesus instituted at the Last Supper on Holy Thursday, the night before His one Sacrifice on Good Friday. First He establishes the ordained Priesthood and then secondly gives the manner in which His saving One Sacrifice on Good Friday would be "memorialized" and eventually celebrated by the Church for all ages after the Resurrection, Ascension and Pentecost event!

The Priest, the ordained priest alone, that is, "TAKES" the Sacramental presence of the Body and Blood of our Lord and "EATS and DRINKS" to successfully complete the Sacramental celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of our Lord. Jesus at the Last Supper wan't talking to the laity, but to HIS FIRST PRIESTS AND SUBSEQUENT PRIESTS THROUGHOUT THE AGES! PRIESTS TAKE AND EAT, TAKE AND DRINK TO COMPLETE THE LITURGICAL SACRIFICIAL ASPECT OF THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.

THE LAITY? THEY RECEIVE THE BODY AND BLOOD OF OUR LORD AND NOT NECESSARILY CONSECRATED AT THE MASS THEY ATTEND, BUT MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, CONSECRATED AT A PREVIOUS MASS.

Hasn't this distinction of taking or receiving been intentionally obfuscated in the current Liturgy? Not even you knew this?

October 12, 2017 at 7:52 AM