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[cappie]

FATHER Greg Reynolds wants his church of dissident Catholics to welcome all - ''every man and his dog'', one might say, risking the non-inclusive language he deplores - but even he was taken aback when that was put to the test during Mass yesterday.

A first-time visitor arrived late at the Inclusive Catholics service in South Yarra with a large and well-trained German shepherd. When the consecrated bread and wine were passed around, the visitor took some bread and fed it to his dog.

Apart from one stifled gasp, those present showed admirable presence of mind - but the dog was not offered the cup!

Father Reynolds, a Melbourne priest for 32 years, launched Inclusive Catholics earlier this year. He now ministers to up to 40 people at fortnightly services alternating between two inner-suburban Protestant churches.

Read more: http://www.theage.co...l#ixzz22ipCOaT9

[Spem in alium]

[homeschoolmom]

I'm speechless.



(I wish Americans used "fortnight" more often...)

[CatherineM]

I believe Protestant is the important word in that article.

[ToJesusMyHeart]

Wait, wait, wait.

Was the consecrated bread that the dog ate the truly transubstantiated Body of Christ?

If so....For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

Oh my gosh.

[BG45]

I literally gasped too, when I read this.

[USAirwaysIHS]

I would be very surprised if the consecration was valid. Most loosey goosey crapfests like that use leavened bread of some kind. Unleavened bread is seen as too stuffy.

[Amppax]

This makes me sick to my stomach.

[Ice_nine]

passing around communion?

sounds Anglican to me

[BG45]

passing around communion?

sounds Anglican to me

Or Disciples of Christ.

[cappie]

The Age newspaper was holding Catholicism up to ridicule in an article published in the paper yesterday, Archbishop Denis Hart, of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, said in a statement.
The article, headlined "Every flock needs a shepherd", reports that at a Mass conducted by a group called Inclusive Catholics, the Blessed Sacrament was given to a dog.
Archbishop Hart said: “anyone who would feed the Eucharist to a dog is an abomination.”
In a letter to the editor of The Age yesteerday, the Archbishop said “Your article is in bad faith. It is the most fundamental and defining belief of Catholics that what you call ‘the consecrated bread and wine’ is the body and blood of Jesus Christ.”


“That you should choose to report the matter in the way that you did can only be understood as an attempt to hold Catholicism up to ridicule.
“Your integrity in this matter can be judged by asking whether, if something sacred to Judaism or Islam had similarly been desecrated, you would have treated the matter with such flippancy.”

http://www.cathnews....aspx?aeid=32607

[USAirwaysIHS]

passing around communion?

sounds Anglican to me

Every Anglican/Episcopal church I've been too in recent memory has had - and used - altar rails.
Something about glass houses....

Edited by USAirwaysIHS, 06 August 2012 - 06:31 PM.

[ToJesusMyHeart]

Oh, how I long for altar rails again.
And disciplinary action against priests such as this guy.

[hotpink]

Didn't a donkey once bow at communion or something for that Francis guy? Why didn't God make the dog do that?

[MissyP89]

Oh, lovely.

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

Horrible. :/

[Annie12]

My jaw almost hit the floor when I read this! Literally when I read this I was like and I was thinking that this guy must be or ....Wow...

[GeorgiiMichael]

I would be very surprised if the consecration was valid. Most loosey goosey crapfests like that use leavened bread of some kind. Unleavened bread is seen as too stuffy.

Leavened bread is valid matter, it's just not licit in the Latin rite.

Or do Eastern Catholics and our Orthodox brothers and sisters not truly receive the Body and Blood of Christ?

Not to say that you're wrong in your assessment that the consecration was probably invalid, just that your reasoning was off. As for whether or not the consecration WAS invalid would depend on this man's Holy Orders and whether they were valid or not.

[USAirwaysIHS]

Interesting. I've always been under a mistaken impression.
More info, for those interested:
http://www.ewtn.com/...gy/zlitur85.htm