CATHOLIC apologist Gerry Matatics last night (April 1st post, beginning at minute 1:17:30) discussed for more than an hour the reality of Catholic sacramental life today.
Mr. Matatics holds the correct position — a position strongly advised by faithful priests back in the 1960s — that Catholics must not participate in the Vatican II rites; must stay at home, pray the Mass and make acts of Spiritual Communion (and avoid Traditionalist groups that, inventing unprecedented breaches of authority, operate without papal mandate and outside the juridical structure of the Church).
But where is the Eucharist today? Does it still exist on any altars in the world?
Mr. Matatics, who is not invoking his own authority but the authority of Scripture and nearly 2,000 years of papal and patristic teaching, explains that it does exist, on the private altars of priests validly ordained in the 1960s or 1970s, and perhaps on the altars of those ordained under special dispensations Pope Pius XII granted to bishops in Communist countries. He discusses the status of valid Eucharists in the Eastern Orthodox churches too.
The discussion goes off into side issues, but he makes many excellent points. I highly recommend it.
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