Thank you for staying united in prayer with the Church through the TV Mass and receiving Holy Communion when it is offered in your community.
Applicable for many elders.
Holy Communion Ping from Monsignor Pope’s OSV column.
I now, let’s ask God.
This is all that can be expected of elderly people living in retirement communities. It’s what my mom did in the last year of her life. I remember all the ladies crowded around the tv set on Sunday!
One could always contact their local parish and see if any of the members would give them a ride.
Makes me wonder what The Blessed Archbishop Martin Sheen would say about the matter.
Absolutely Beautiful...for those that have not see this, it is amazing...
It seems to me that anyone who truly believes in the Real Presence would long for His nourishment, namely, receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion (Eucharist).
Therefore if they opt to watch Mass on television I have to assume those people have a legitimate reason and have satisfied their Catholic obligations.
I can only speak for myself, but those times I did not receive Communion (sick; other extenuating circumstances) there still is an emptiness inside that is hard to describe. But it is there.
A very good response to a concerned older person.
Salvation is not through our works or the accounting of our church attendance but by believing in the one who God sent.....Jesus. His grace is sufficient for thee!
My brother is a Lutheran Lay Minister. He helps visit the elderly who can’t make it to church and delivers the Sacrament. Maybe the Catholics could try that too. The Pope sits on a trillion dollars that could help.
The Orthodos call such interpretaive statements economia and that is economia at its finest!
Thank you for posting this. I have the same situation. 73 and no longer driving, living independently, pretty much a shut in and no family to help me. Thank God for the internet and EWTN! It is not really the same as being as being at Mass in person but very very happy to have it.