A comment on Holy Communion (updated)

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2008/10/flash-brisbane-again-jesus-isnt-god-after-all/#comment-91922

(Updated, October 31, 2008, approx. 0300 hrs.: here is a subsequent comment that I made in order to clarify the first one:

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In order to eliminate any ambiguity in my answer to Nickname’s question at 11:59 p.m., October 29, let me re-phrase the first part as follows:

“By the personal act of receiving Holy Communion worthily (or the personal act of offering the Holy Sacrifice worthily), one merits increase of grace and glory, but does not make satisfaction for sin …”

A footnote to the section on Holy Communion in the 1923 McHugh/Callan translation of the Catechism of the Council of Trent mentions this.

Reginaldvs Cantvar

Comment by Cardinal Pole — 30 October 2008 @ 10:59 am

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(Here is my original post.) Here is a comment that I made at Rev. Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf’s blog:

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Nickname, you asked

“would receieving Holy Communion in reparation for the sins and offenses of priests (for example this priest’s blasphemy) be something I can do? Or would it be a sin to do that?”

By receiving Holy Communion (or offering the Holy Sacrifice), one merits increase of grace and glory, but does not make satisfaction for sin. See the Catechism of the Council of Trent’s section on Holy Communion.

Instead, we must offer up prayers, fasts, watches &c. in reparation for these heresies.

Reginaldvs Cantvar

Comment by Cardinal Pole — 29 October 2008 @ 11:59 pm

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Reginaldvs Canvar
30.X.2008 A.D.

A curious observation

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804063.htm

I read in yesterday’s Sydney Catholic Weekly a report from Mr. John Thavis via C.N.S. on H.H. The Pope’s recent informal dialogue with some Priests while on His Holiness’ holidays. Here is the portion that I find curious:

The pope, in a moment of self-revelation that's become typical of these encounters, said he used to be more strict about administering the sacraments, but he's come to see that it's more important to be generous if it can encourage even a "glimmer" of faith.

The comment immediately prompted speculation that Pope Benedict might prove to be somewhat more lenient than expected on other sacramental issues, including the church's current policy of no Communion for Catholics who have divorced and remarried without an annulment.

‘Speculation’ among whom? Only the most theologically illiterate, one could only imagine. Inadequate preparation for the Sacraments is quite a different matter to the sacrilegious reception of the Blessed Sacrament while in a state of grave sin. The ‘divorced and remarried’ sin on at least three counts: going through a form of marriage while still validly married, living in sin with the new non-spouse, and the scandal that this ménage gives to others. These miscreants cannot receive the Blessed Sacrament without ‘heaping infidelity upon infidelity’, sin upon sin. May God avert it.

Reginaldvs Cantvar