Our daily bread for our future life
Our daily bread for our future life By: Laurence Gonzaga This past Thursday was the traditional Corpus Christi Feast, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday ( New Advent ). It was a beautiful liturgy in the extraordinary form. My friends who have formed a beautiful choir sung the propers and ordinary for the Mass. I even joined in choir for the ordinary chants. Father’s homily was very much the same as today’s sermon for the “Second Sunday After Pentecost”. In summary, Father made the following points: 1) Communion in the hand is not the universal norm. It was originally granted as an indult in the 70’s. 2) The majority of bishops in the 70’s said that communion in the hand was not advisable and that it would lead to a loss of faith in the real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. (Father was referring to the document Memoriale Domini , 1969, and can be read here . The bishops never wanted communion ...