tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post4721977288082522198..comments2023-10-23T14:02:52.339-06:00Comments on Dominican Idaho: The 1960s generation: Getting Knickers in a Knot over Devotion.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-73666624695973157192011-05-27T14:58:12.216-06:002011-05-27T14:58:12.216-06:00My thoughts: the elderly priest doesn't like g...My thoughts: the elderly priest doesn't like getting his fingers wet. Let me tell you what's going on in my parish church. My pastor has asked that we all receive in the hand because in his entire 30 years as a priest, only three people have approached him correctly, to receive on the tongue. He doesn't like getting his fingers slobbered over--unintentionally, but that's the result. In his defense, not everyone has gotten the message and he doesn't make a big deal of it. He gives communion on the tongue to those who come up. He has never put out his message in the bulletin, or web site. It's just his preference.<br /> I bet your dying to know why. When everyone received on the tongue, we were kneeling at the communion rail. Father was standing. We had to tip our heads back, and stick out our tongues. But the pastor is 5'5" at the most. How does a 5'5" priest give out communion to someone over 6'. Kneeling to receive is impractical--too many people would fall over you. I've almost fallen over someone pausing just to bow before receiving. But that's not an issue; a few do kneel and receive on the tongue and no one begrudges them that option. <br /> But I found it interesting--the short priest angle.Faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13945662015612932618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-56193827775354065982011-05-23T15:05:28.297-06:002011-05-23T15:05:28.297-06:00Don't know the cause here other than illberali...Don't know the cause here other than illberality; but reason governs your situation. Thank God. Not here; at least on that day.John Keenan, OPLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07514688769709402691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-37377427496981995042011-05-19T18:59:05.642-06:002011-05-19T18:59:05.642-06:00This is something I just don't get. I kneel f...This is something I just don't get. I kneel for communion every Sunday in a church without altar rails or the Latin Mass. I've knelt before liberal, progressive priests who celebrate the Mass in a scandalous fashion. But I have NEVER had any of them confront me about my form in receiving communion, and I have never been denied communion. I wonder if this same priest in your account ever called a gum-chewer in for a dressing down--is he just a bit of a controlling personality, for instance--or could he really be so deficient in charity toward others?Legobelthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661584370259376523noreply@blogger.com