For centuries the Church restricted the touching of the Eucharist almost entirely to consecrated hands.
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It seems that many in the Church have accepted the notion that all people are going to Heaven. That makes it rather unnecessary to join the Catholic Church, and indeed it doesn’t matter how you behave. We are going to spend some time on this earth, and then we’ll go to our reward, where we’ll meet Napoleon, Pol Pot, Stalin, Ho Chi-minh, Henry VIII and Chairman Mao.
So many of the modern jingles that masquerade for hymns these days assume that we’ll all be OK in the end. And some bishops go as far as to openly propose that we have little to worry about. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column/how-many-are-saved-2383 The Church has power to make commandments for Catholics (Matt 18:18). Bishops may decide on laws for individual cases, but in the English-speaking world there are six Commandments of the Church.
1 To keep the Sundays and Holy Days of obligation holy, by hearing Mass and resting from servile work; 2 To keep the days of fasting and abstinence appointed by the Church; 3 To go to confession at least once a year; 4 To receive the Blessed Sacrament at least once a year and that at Easter or thereabouts; 5 To contribute to the support of our pastors; 6 Not to marry within a certain degree of kindred nor to solemnize marriage at the forbidden times. by St Leonard of Port MauriceThanks be to God, the number of the Redeemer's disciples is not so small that the wickedness of the Scribes and Pharisees is able to triumph over them. Although they strove to calumniate innocence and to deceive the crowd with their treacherous sophistries by discrediting the doctrine and character of Our Lord, finding spots even in the sun, many still recognized Him as the true Messiah, and, unafraid of either chastisements or threats, openly joined His cause. Did all those who followed Christ follow Him even unto glory? Oh, this is where I revere the profound mystery and silently adore the abysses of the divine decrees, rather than rashly deciding on such a great point! The subject I will be treating today is a very grave one; it has caused even the pillars of the Church to tremble, filled the greatest Saints with terror and populated the deserts with anchorites. The point of this instruction is to decide whether the number of Christians who are saved is greater or less than the number of Christians who are damned; it will, I hope, produce in you a salutary fear of the judgments of God.
THE CHURCH’S FORBIDDEN TEACHINGS
What your Catholic teacher should have told you, but was afraid to. These are the teachings once taught from the pulpit and in Catholic schools. Today they have been banished. We have heard teachers in Catholic schools tell us that if they teach them, their jobs are in jeopardy. And of course they cannot admit this publicly. The result is that the number of children graduating from Catholic schools and continuing to attend Mass is down around 2%. Given that Church discipline binds Catholics to Sunday Mass, these children are living in a constant state of sin. St Jerome estimates that the number of such souls saved is pitifully small. That is, Catholic children are overwhelmingly on the way to eternal damnation. These pages go over the teaching banned from the classroom. |