“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
Four times, my accounts were suspended from Twitter First, @voxcantoris and then @realvoxcantoris. I went back on under a different name, @canadiancatholicpatriot and was banned and now, @antoiusroman. I was able to re-register under multiple emails and cell phones. Not anymore. I have had enough of it. I am nowon Parler @voxcantoris. Twitter is evil and all of the people behind it. Get off of Twitter. I feel freer already.
Well, I don't know how I missed this? Oh, yes I do. I read nothing of some guy named Michael Coren. This was sent to me by a friend. It was published in something called the Narwal or something like that which has fewer readers than this blog. She insisted I read it as this blog and my good friends at Toronto Catholic Witness were mentioned as Coren testified that both blogs make a "heavy mark." It Well, Michael Coren doesn't.
St. Patrick's parish in Markham, a suburb north of Toronto, has had statues defaced. Priests of Toronto. Wake up. Get your security cameras and get them focused. Are there any "men" left in your parish? Get them at the doors during Mass. Trained to lock and load? Why not? Is your Mass kit ready for house Masses? They are coming for us.
If you have a blog, please re-post this. Please TWEET and RETWEET. Please put on FACEBOOK, etc. The link: https://wdtprs.com/?p=114749
A canonist contacted me asking for help in a worthy endeavor. He is collecting some information for defense of Communion on the tongue.
He has a deadline with the Vatican: Tomorrow, 7 JULY – NOON Rome time (= UTC+2 London UTC+1), NYC UTC -4, Tokyo UTC+9)
This is for everyone in the world, not just these USA.
Has your local DIOCESAN BISHOP or PRIEST issued any decree, statement, or announcement in which - for any reason whatsoever - he has forbidden distribution and/or reception of Holy Communion on the tongue?
You do not need to give your name. Additional message is optional.
As some of you may know, Twitter has twice permanently suspended @VoxCantoris. The first time seemed to be a tweet to @pontifex and @fatherrosica - my old friend called in his friends to silence me. Well, who's silenced now? https://twitter.com/voxcantoris The second time is unknown. https://twitter.com/realvoxcantoris What Twitter does not realise is that I am back there, another email address, another cell phone number, it is just not under the @VoxCantoris handle. I am toying with the idea of changing the handle and if it results in the removal again, so be it. Make no mistake, it is a war on Catholics and Christians in general, and conservatives. At the time of my first suspension, there were nearly 4,000 followers of @VoxCantoris on Twitter. It is a long haul to build a new platform such as Parler and to restore the reach that one had before. See you there.
The posts below deal with the reaction of priest, bishops and cardinals to the current China Virus calamity and the government's emergency orders. Cardinal Collins and the bishops of Ontario have banned Holy Communion on the tongue - they hint that they have been bullied by public health officials but they don't come out and say it directly. They also have not fought back or come up with a strategy to work within the Law and provide for the faithful. Yet, they are not being totally forthcoming. The Archdiocese of Kingston in eastern Ontario has not banned Holy Communion on the tongue. There may be others, please advise me. Kingston's request is simply to come at the end of you wish to receive on the tongue and to a priest not an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. We know that the Society of St. Pius X in Toronto, New Hamburg, St. Catharines and Orillia and elsewhere in their missions are following the occupancy guidelines but are giving Holy Communion on the tongue. It is after Mass with the priest having washed and wearing a mask, distributes. I have today watched a video from St. Aloysius the FSSP parish in the Diocese of St. Catharines from the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and the priest distributes Holy Communion on the tongue. So what is the deal here? Is it banned by the government or isn't it? My view is simple. If the China Virus is as bad and transmissible as we are led to believe than Holy Communion by either hand or tongue is a risk of transmission. As someone who is 63 and with some conditions such as asthma, I understand the matter quite directly. For me, I will not attempt to receive Holy Communion during Mass. That is my choice. My right to decide. The problem here is the alleged and subtle diktat of the bureaucracy and the acquiescence of our spineless episcopal leaders. If they did this the bishops should have said either, "we will not comply" or "we will get back to you with a plan of how we are going to do this safely." Holy Communion does not need to be received at Mass. The Mass is not dependent on the laity nor is Holy Communion to the laity necessary for the Mass. The Sacrifice is complete upon the consumption of the Elements by the priest - just as in the ancient Temple. If this was the diktat, Holy Communion in general should have been suspended at Mass and an alternative implemented. The bishops should have simply told the Government how it was going to be, not the other way around and challenged them to a court battle. Since I advised on this blog in the middle of March that Mass should continue with a limit on building capacity and a ticket system and that has not been accepted by My Eminence, then allow me to again place done my lay mitre. No communion during Mass on hand or tongue. People are encouraged to make a spiritual communion which the Bishop shall order read by the priest after the Our Father in both forms, OF and EF. Holy Communion is distributed on hand or tongue in the OF (given current Church provision) and only tongue in the EF, after Mass using the following practice.
The Priest or Deacon only, no EMHC, shall wash their hands using soap and water and put on a mask.
They shall then wash their hands again.
They return to the sanctuary with the Sacrament and beside them have two pedestals or tables. On the right to hold the ciborium and on the left, an ablution cup, linen towel and bottle of hand sanitizer.
A family comes up together and individual alone with proper distancing.
The priest uses sanitzer and then provides Holy Conmmunion to each family/individual.
He then washes his fingers in the ablutions cup and dries them to protect the integrity of the Sacrament. Once done, he then uses hand sanitizer again and repeats the above.
The ablutions cup is then dealt with in the normal manner.
If Father needs to stand there for three hours, so be it. If people need to wait, so be it. There is the solution. This is what should be done and the government should be told to sue us. The faithful have been abandoned by spineless men.
Barona at Toronto Public Witness has done more research and
not only extracted more quotes from Cardinal Collins but has found the posters
from Toronto Public Health and Ontario Public Health. The latter admits that
it's recommendation or regulations may actually conflict with the Law -
"Any conflict between this document and the emergency orders ... the
emergency order or directive prevails."
Toronto Public Health provides "General Guidance"
to "suspend all communion related activities." Note, "General
Guidance" because they are not higher than Ontario Public Health which
freely acknowledges that if its regulation are in conflict with the Law, then
they are moot - the Law Applies.
Now, the emergency order does state: “3. The persons
conducting the wedding, funeral, service, rite or ceremony must ensure that it
is conducted in compliance with the advice, recommendations and instructions of
public health officials, including any advice, recommendations or instructions
on physical distancing, cleaning or disinfecting.”
Holy Communion is not mentioned, but it is implied. However,
the Cardinal and bishops could have come up with either solution or adamantly
fought the dictats of the Government. They have done neither, they have
acquiesced to Caesar. Cardinal Collins and most, not all, of Ontario's bishops
have acquiesced to public health officials - un-elected bureaucrats, not the
duly elected Government of Ontario. The bureaucrats have overstepped their
authority and our emasculated episcopal "leaders" have shown
themselves and who it is they serve.
Is Cardinal Collins taking a knee to Caesar?
In the video below you will hear Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto and Fr. Ivan Camilleri, Chancellor discussing Holy Communion. At the 37:00 mark, the Cardinal alludes to public officials and a poster with a loaf of bread and a chalice and red line through it - "No Communion."
The purpose of this post is not Holy Communion in the hand or the mouth. That is another post and another discussion and has already been addressed. While Holy Communion in the hand is an abomination, this issue is deeply odious.
The Premier of Ontario, Douglas Ford, has decreed, under his legitimate authority, that churches could open with a limit on capacity at 30%. In some parishes, it works out to a lot less because 30% occupancy does not always maintain a 6-foot distance.
The issue in this video of the Cardinal (which may be taken down as it is not on the public feed) and by a priest in the Diocese of Hamilton is allusion to government orders into how we worship. The Cardinal is not so discreetly attempting to put the responsibility for this on public health officials without coming out and saying it directly, or issuing a formal protest. Our Lord said, "Let your yes be yes and your no be no." He also said to "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's." The occupancy numbers of a building, even a church, lit EXIT Signs, washrooms, parking requirements, are all under the legitimate authority of Caesar as expressed in fire Codes, building Codes, zoning by-laws or ordinances and in this case, emergency orders from an Act previously approved by the Legislature. The liturgy and the distribution of Holy Communion and singing at Mass is not the jurisdiction of Caesar. It is the jurisdiction of God as manifested through His Church.
If Ontario health officials threatened to prevent the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass from occurring over this matter, that is a violation of our God given rights under Common Law and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that itself recognizes "The Supremacy of God," and should be, must be, resisted in every way.
If on the other hand the bishops are acknowledging that the secular government has the right to regulate the liturgical practices of the Church then there is a deeper problem here that is far more significant than the manner in which Holy Communion is distributed. If the bishops have handed over the decisions that rightly belong only to them by virtue of their apostolic authority where does it end? If they acknowledge that the government can regulate specific aspects of our sacramental praxis then how can they not regulate any other aspect of the expression of the faith of the Church.
The bishops seem to think that they must comply with government diktats concerning the expression of our faith in the administration of the sacraments. Will it be inevitable that the government will regulate the expression of our faith in things that are non-sacramental, such as preaching?
Our human rights commissions already accept the idea that speech can be violence. What will the bishops do when these commissions decide to regulate preaching in order to protect the public from "violent words." Will a priest who preaches on the sanctity of life, on the family as created by God, on the inviolable dignity of the human person with respect to the Church's constant teaching on transgenderism and homosexuality be handed over to Pilate for judgement? For if the bishops accept that the State has the authority to regulate one area of the Church's expression of faith when it deems it to be a matter of public safety how can they deny the State's authority to regulate another aspect, another expression of faith when the State deems it to be a matter of public safety.
If the Province of Ontario has ordered this action, under threat, the Cardinal must reveal this to all Catholics. If on the other hand, he and the other bishops are acting on their own, then they must be honest before God and man and testify to the truth that this is their doing. The difference may end up akin to Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops becoming the Canadian Catholic Patriotic Association. If that is the case, we will see the emergence of an underground Church in Canada. There is a precedent.
In a webinar for priests held today in the Archdiocese of Toronto the matter of the illegal forbidding of Holy Communion on the tongue was again raised. Thomas Cardinal Collins was adamant that it is not to occur and said those upset were a "tiny minority." In other news, ...
The post two below refers to the state of Holy Communion in the hand as ordered by the Ontario bishops.
A priest in the Diocese of Hamilton went so far as to state that the government would shut down the Latin Mass. Liars, all of them. Tough word calling these men all liars. Well, the truth shall set you free. Barona has it right here.
The Archdiocese of Kingston in eastern Ontario has provided a simple remedy for Holy Communion on the tongue. One can only conclude that those who say that the Chief Medical Officer of Health has regulated Holy Communion - a perposterous suggestion - are liars. As for the priest, Father Brendan McGrath the "Chaplain" for the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese of Hamilton who wrote this, well, you can draw your own conclusions. Your smart enough.
