Thursday, October 07, 2010
If you really believed...
Would you be so careless?
At the conclusion of adoration last evening, I returned the monstrance to the sacristy, with the candles and the tabernacle keys, after reposing the Blessed Sacrament. I noticed a large pyx on the cluttered counter - I looked at the design wondering if the pyx was empty or not. I noticed a note to the visiting priest who had the Mass that morning. The religious who wrote the note asked Father to consecrate the low-gluten hosts contained in the pyx. I realized the Blessed Sacrament was present - and the pyx was just sitting on the counter. It should have been placed in the tabernacle for Sr. Adult Formation Director to retrieve.
Sometimes I really doubt these people believe in the real presence at all.
And we wonder why contemporary Catholics do not understand the faith, or why sacrilegious communions occur with such frequency.