"I can not forget those moving scenes since the persecution of the Church, when in very small rooms filled with the faithful during the Holy Mass, children, elderly and sick kneels reverently receive edifying the body of the Lord. Among the liturgical innovations introduced in the Western world, especially two of them emerge in a way that obscures the visible aspect of the Eucharist on its centrality and sacredness, and these are: the removal of the tabernacle from the center and the distribution of Communion in the hand. When you remove the Eucharistic Lord, "the Lamb slain, and live," from and when the central place. distribution of Communion in the hand is undeniably increases the risk of dispersion of fragments, of profanation of the Eucharistic bread and equivalency practice with ordinary bread, you create unfavorable conditions for growth in the depth of faith and devotion. Communion in the hand is spreading and even more necessary as something more comfortable, as a kind of fashion. Are not primarily academic specialists, but the pure soul of children and simple people who could teach us how we should deal with the Eucharistic Lord. I would like to humbly then the following concrete propositions: that the Holy See establish a universal norm reasoned according to which the official way of receiving Communion in the mouth and both his knees ; Communion in the hand is reserved for the clergy instead. That the bishops of the places where it was introduced Communion in the hand, with pastoral prudence will strive to gradually faithful to the official rite of Communion, valid for all local churches. "
[Excerpt from speech 4-10.2005 by the Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga, MIC, Archbishop of Karaganda (Kazakhstan) to the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist]
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