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To: ebb tide

Perhaps he considers Summorum Pontificum distastefully “medieval”.


Diocese Curtails Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

The Diocese of St. Petersburg. Florida issued new guidelines that severely restrict the practice of exposition of the Eucharist. The directive permits extended exposition (one or more days) only once a year and brief periods of exposition at other times.

The guidelines, which were promulgated by Bishop Robert Lynch in a June 12 letter, maintain that “eucharistic reservation and adoration as we know it today began in the thirteenth century” and implies that they were started because medieval Christians’ understanding of the Eucharist was deficient. One reason, among others, given for this supposed deficiency is that medieval Christianity suffered “a lost connection to the Church’s roots.”

The document goes on claim that the Second Vatican Council “recovered the early Church’s understanding” of Christ’s presence in the minister, the Word proclaimed, other sacraments, and in the participation of the faithful.

The guidelines state that those who want to inaugurate Eucharistic adoration in their parishes should reflect on “their commitment of time and money to social services.” They should also ask themselves, among other things, if they are “as respectful and reverent toward Christ’s presence in the gathered Body, the Church, as they are to the presence of Christ in the Sacrament.”

The diocese had no chapels with permanent exposition. But at least two parishes had to discontinue regular exposition because of the new guidelines.

http://www.perpetualadoration.org/sf2000.htm


11 posted on 05/15/2015 12:52:10 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: BlatherNaut
The document goes on claim that the Second Vatican Council “recovered the early Church’s understanding”

This is better known as "false antiquity". It is often used to promote the new liturgy.

12 posted on 05/15/2015 1:21:09 PM PDT by piusv
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To: BlatherNaut

Absolutey disgraceful. Lynch is evil incarnate.


14 posted on 05/15/2015 4:35:54 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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