I had to share...

A fellow parishoner took this during the first communion last week. I am not able to share many photos here(making an exception with this one). For those of you following our personal blog, I posted the full lot of the photos from the entire day. If you didn't get the link, leave a comment with email(I won't publish) and I will send it over. I think I am caught up sending the link but if something happened and you didn't get it, let me know.
Isn't the church wonderful? It is refreshing to feel at home in a parish. I hope to get more photos myself this weekend during the may crowning.

Yikes and yuck.

H/T to R. Leonardi for this "thing/incident/event/comparison":

A question on kneeling for communion sent to Fr. Z: Priest denies communion

And a lovely ditty written by a local priest: incongruity of a person insisting on kneeling to receive Communion

While I do not receive kneeling at the NO Mass, I do genuflect(or bow) before receiving. I can tell you that about 5 years ago, a priest in a Covington church...when I came up to receive...asked me if I was Catholic...(I promise I am not making this up)...because I had my tongue out to receive communion and not my HANDS. My voice trembled as I replied "yes". I returned to my pew in tears, thinking of all the people who profane and abuse our Lord in the Holy Eucharist DAILY. It was humbling and maddening all at once. It is stuck in my brain and it all came back after reading this entry. More disturbing was the comment on Fr. Z's site:

I witnessed the Rector of the Pontifical College Josephinum deny Holy Communion to a new seminarian for kneeling to receive. He was pulled aside after the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and chastised.

When the seminarian later brought evidence supporting the legality of kneeling in Redemptionis Sacramentum with the appropriate member of formation, he was verbally abused and told to cease, which out of obedience he did.

Such a sad state of things today! Please pray for all Christ’s priests that they may be unswervingly loyal to the Magisterium!

The comments were getting heated and Father closed them, understandably.
Lord, help us.
UPDATE: I forgot about the time I was at another "older" church in Covington, when I was still single(maybe 14 years ago), went to confession, I was asked to leave the confessional because, as the priest said, "I can't give you absolution because those aren't really sins". Nice. Trust me, they were sins. Again, Lord help us poor folk here in Covington.

How did I miss this? Politicing Communion

Politicizing Communion The Vatican wisely backpedaled after Pope Benedict XVI said he agreed with excommunicating pro-choice legislators in Mexico.
Editorial on the Mexican/politician debate and as usual, takes the side of telling Catholics how we should behave.