Just to add to what Richard has said:
Monsignor Guido
Marini and/or Monsignor Mark Miles are the two people you always see assisting
the Holy Father at all his Masses. Monsignor Guido
Marini does everything
from guiding the Holy Father through the crowds to
holding the Sacramentary or Lectionary as the Holy
Father celebrates Holy Mass. Monsignor Mark Miles is Pope Francis' personal translator.
Monsignor Marini is also the one that decides who will and will
not be able to receive Holy Communion from the Pope.
Dave sent me his newsletter where he quoted part
of an interview with Monsignor Guido Marini and L'Osservatore
Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, on June 26,
2008. It said:
According to Vatican liturgist, Monsignor Guido
Marini, the pope wants Catholics to kneel for Communion
because it:
"highlights
the truth of the real presence in the Eucharist,
helps the devotion of the faithful, and introduces
the sense of mystery more easily."
(L'Osservatore
Romano, June 26, 2008)
He said It
is urgent to highlight and recover these
aspects of the sacredness and mystery of the Eucharist
in modern times.
Marini who is master of papal liturgical ceremonies
also told L'Osservatore Romano that receiving the
Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling before the
pope will become the norm at papal liturgies. |
Richard send me a similar posting from the blog Rorate
Coeli where it said:
In today's edition of Italian daily Il Giornale,
religious journalist Andrea Tornielli brings the
news that several propositions [have
been] approved by the plenary of the Congregation
for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
(reserved session held on March 12, 2009) regarding
several reforms of the new Mass of Paul VI. Full
translation below:
ROME — The document was delivered to the
hands of Benedict XVI in the morning of last April
4 by Spanish Cardinal Antonio Cañizares
Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine
Worship. It is the result of a reserved vote, which
took place on March 12, in the course of a "plenary" session
of the dicastery responsible for the liturgy, and
it represents the first concrete step towards that "reform
of the reform" often desired by Pope Ratzinger.
The Cardinals and Bishops members of the Congregation
voted almost unanimously in favor of:
- a greater [sacrality|sacralization] of the rite
- the recovery of the sense of eucharistic worship
- the recovery of the Latin language in the celebration,
and
- the remaking of the introductory parts of the
Missal in order to put a stop to abuses, wild
experimentations, and inappropriate creativity.
They have also declared themselves favorable to
reaffirm that the usual way of receiving Communion
according to the norms is
not on the hand, but in the mouth.
There
is, it is true, an indult which, on request of
the [local] episcopates, allows for the distribution
of the host [sic] also on the palm of the hand,
but this must remain an extraordinary fact. |
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I thought our visitors would be interested in both
the e-mails Dave and Richard sent me.
Kudos to both of you : )
Quotes from His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI:
"Kneeling in adoration before the Eucharist
is the most valid and radical remedy against the
idolatries of yesterday and today."
"We Christians kneel before the Blessed Sacrament
because, therein, we know and believe to be the
presence of the One True God." (May 22, 2008) |
Mike
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