Communion before and after Vatican II

 


On the left, you can see Fr. Leandro Moran, OSA assisted by sub-deacon Fr. Ambrosio Galindez, OSA giving holy communion in the tongue to a properly dressed woman wearing a veil and dress. This picture was taken in 1965 in the Santo Nino Church in Cebu, in a mass commemorating the Fourth Centennial of the Christianization of the Philippines. Father Moran happens to be my grandmother's priest in the 1950s.

On the right, you can see invalidly ordained Gilbert Levosada, SJ give a piece of cookie in the hand to an immodestly dressed student wearing shorts. The picture was taken during the Novus Bogus bread-and-wine service during a ''Mass for the dead'' in the Jesuit Sacred Heart School in Cebu. Notice also that Levosada is wearing purple which is worn in Novus Ordo funerals. In the Requiem Masses, the priest always wears black.

Communion in the hand is a sacrilege. It is not Catholic, and was introduced by Thomas Cranmer during the Reformation as a way of denying Christ's real presence. Only consecrated hands can only touch the most Holy body of Our Lord, the chalice and the paten.

-Ryan

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