Why Does the Catholic Church Treat the Holy Eucharist With Adoration and Devotion? By Lawrence Luna

Why Does the Catholic Church Treat the Holy Eucharist With Adoration and Devotion? 

By Lawrence Luna

Answer:

The Catholic Church treat the Holy Eucharist in a respectful manner and with adoration because of the following reasons that are biblical based:

• The Holy Eucharist is not a symbol of the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ as others said, but truly that it is his real body (Jn 6:54-57, Lk 22, 1 Cor 11). IT IS THE REAL BODY OF JESUS OUR GOD who is present there Body, Soul and Divinity. It means that when we treat it with devotion and adoration, then it signifies our faith and love for him but if we commit sacrilegious communion or make any actions that dishonors the Holy Eucharist, then it disrespects his body; that is sacrilegious to Jesus our God . With this, the Catholic Church uses its authority up to the point of establishing norms and make sanctions to ensure that the Holy Eucharist will be respected, guarded, dignified, and be treated in proper way towards proper manner and devotion to it (Mt 18:18-20, 1 Cor 14, 1 Cor 5). An example of Church document that ensures the norms on this matter is the Redemptionis Sacramentum, although there are also other Church documents that can be connected in this case.

• The Holy Eucharist must be adored and respected and treated properly as well because every time that there is Eucharistic Celebration and receive it, we proclaim the death of our Lord Jesus Christ until he comes again (1 Cor 11:26). This means that the Eucharistic celebration is a true and a proper sacrifice, and as well signifies his passion, death, and resurrection (1 Cor 11, Lk 22, 1 Tim 2). No doubt that the Catholic Church is serious and particular on these matters because of these truths.

In fact, the apostles and early disciples also devoted themselves to the breaking of bread and prayers (Acts 2: 42-43), which this scenario tells us that the treating of the Holy Eucharist in a respectful manner and with devotion is even practiced already by the early Christians. Such way of respect and devotion is still applicable and must be maintained even in our times, and with the more generations to come (Mt 28:19-20, Mt 5).

Source from:

https://thesplendorofthechurch.com/2022/03/18/why-does-the-catholic-church-treat-the-holy-eucharist-with-adoration-devotion-by-lawrence-luna/

CLARIFICATIONS FROM THE HOLY SEE

Repost from : Millennial Catholics

"In eucharistic celebrations deacons and non-ordained members of the faithful may not pronounce prayers — e.g. especially the eucharistic prayer, with its concluding doxology — or any other parts of the liturgy reserved to the celebrant priest. Neither may deacons or non-ordained members of the faithful use gestures or actions which are proper to the same priest celebrant. It is a grave abuse for any member of the non-ordained faithful to "quasi preside" at the Mass while leaving only that minimal participation to the priest which is necessary to secure validity"

(Instruction On Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priests, August 15, 1997, Art. 6 § 2)

Source 

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/laity/documents/rc_con_interdic_doc_15081997_en.html

ABOUT THE ORANS POSTURE

Noong 1997, naglabas ang Pontifical Council for the Laity ng mga panuto or Instruction regarding sa kilos o gawi ng mga mananampalataya (lay faithful) sa Misa. 

Nasasaad sa Article 6, paragraph 2 na hindi natin maaring gayahin ang pari sa mga kilos o gawi na pang pari lang at nasasaad sa Misal.

Source 

https://adoremus.org/2003/11/about-that-orans-posture

Sa General Instruction of the Roman Missal, o Pangkalahatang Tagubilin Para sa Pagmimisa Ayon sa Roma, hindi maaring baguhin ng Obispo ang mga kilos o gawi ng tao (GIRM no. 387). 

Subalit, pananagutan ng Obispo na maging maayos at solemne ang Liturhiya sa kaniyang kawan, at sumusunod sa alituntunin na nauukol sa mga utos sa Liturhiya

Sapagkat ayon sa inilabas na sulat ng Congregation for the Clergy noong 2004: 

"Pietas... brings one immediately to that high sense of nobility and religiosity, of recognition and respect for the Sacred which must characterise the exercise of the Munus Sanctificandi...Faithfulness is determined both by the respect given to the forms established by the Church, by which the mysteries are to be celebrated, forms that are objective and universal, never arbitrary or tailored according to local or personal emotive exigencies, and by the “constancy” with which they are celebrated.

 The Liturgy, which is above all a divine act, does not live by “creative subjectivity” but by “faithful repetition” which never burdens us because it is the sign, in space and time, of the faithfulness of God himself. True creativity is really that of the heart which is always renewed because it is in love." (Letter to the Priests, 2004)

Kapag iginalang natin ang Liturhiya, iginagalang din natin ang Inang Simbahan bilang tagapag-ingat ng yaman na ito. Naitutulad natin ang mga nasa Langit sa walang sawa na paulit ulit na papuri, "Santo, Santo, Santo..."

(Thanks to Jericho Christian for this) 

For more readings: 

https://www.lincolndiocese.org/op-ed/in-laymans-terms/10599-how-should-we-pray-the-our-father

https://pcjparish.org/2017/07/diocesan-directives-on-posture-of-laity-during-mass/

https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/should-we-hold-hands-or-not-during-our-father

𝘼𝙉𝙂 𝙊𝙎𝙏𝙄𝘼 𝘼𝙔 𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘿𝙄 '𝙋𝙄𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙊𝙎 𝙉𝙄 𝙇𝙊𝙍𝘿'

Nagsimula na naman ang Simbang Gabi at Misa De Aguinaldo at marami na namang nominal Catholics ang tila nagsusulputan sa bawat sulok ng simbahan. Sa kabilang banda, tunay na nakakatuwang malaman na maraming nagbabalik loob sa Panginoon sa mga pagkakataong ito, gayunpaman, nakakalungkot kung hindi nila ito paninindigan. Dahil aminin man natin o hindi, marami sa kanila ang hindi masyadong maalam sa turo ng Simbahan. Gaya na lamang ng isang Social Media user na nasa ibaba na tinawag na 'Piattos' ang Ostia na siyang katawan Ni Kristo. 

Marahil nagtatanong ang ilan, paanong naging katawan ni Kristo ang simpleng Communion Wafer?Ang sagot ay nakapaloob sa salitang 'Transubstantiation.' Mula sa pinagsamang salita na 'Trans' o pagbabago at 'Substance' na nangangahulugang' anyo o laman.'

Ang 'Transubstantiation' ay isang proseso na nagaganap sa misa tuwing consecration kung saan ang simpleng wafer o tinapay, pati na rin ang alak, ay nagiging Katawan at Dugo ni Kristo. At hindi lamang ito basta mga simbolismo, bagkus ito mismo ang Katawan at Dugo ni Kristo. Ang prosesong ito ay nagaganap sa tulong ng Espirito Santo at ng Pari na nagsisilbing tagapamagitan ni Kristo sa sanlibutan.

Kaya naman ipinagbabawal ng Simbahan ang paggamit ng Ostia, lalo na kung ito ay consecrated, sa pangmakamundong bagay. Gaya na lamang ng pagbubulsa nito upang ipatuka sa manok na pansabong o paggamit sa mga walang kabuluhang content sa Facebook at Youtube, o gawing katatawanan. Ang sinumang mahulihang gumawa nito ay maaring ma-excommunicate ng Simbahan. 

Nawa'y magsilbing aral ang artikulong ito sa mga kabataang hindi alam kung gaano kasagrado ang Ostia. 

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