Apparently the bishop of Rockville Centre agrees:
Writing in an eight-page letter sent on Friday, Bishop Murphy reflected on the importance of the Eucharist. "The Eucharist is the greatest gift Jesus left us… The celebration of the Eucharist gives us our identity as well as our life,” he said.
The bishop said that Communion services, in practice, often sever what he called “the connection between receiving the Sacrament and celebrating the sacrifice.”
“The two go hand-in-hand,” he continued. “Receiving the Sacrament is the culmination of participating in the sacrifice.”
“There is an inherent interconnection between sacrifice, Real Presence, and Communion,” Bishop Murphy said.
Pope Benedict makes similar though less explicit points about the interconnectedness of celebration and reception in Sacramentum Caritatis, his apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist.
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" ... two alb-wearing boomerettes ..."
I've taken to calling them albesses.
Neither Merriam-Webster Online nor Dictionary.com know of that word. Do you think I should copyright it?
I always understood that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has also had a long-standing policy forbidding "communion services" at parishes in place of the Mass. In fact, it was a priest of the archdiocese who told me this. My observations upon visiting home show me that this directive is being ignored on a grand scale.
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