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[parvenu74]

Due to concern over spread of H1N1, the Bishop of Calgary has ordered all parishes to suspend communion on the tongue. The local FSSP parish has refused and are now suspended from offering Mass until further notice.

Full email chain follows:

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From: [parvenu74]
Sent: November 30, 2009 10:09 AM
To: bishopfh@rcdiocese-calgary.ab.ca
Subject: Calgary's Saint Anthony Parish: forbidden to have Mass if communion in the hand is not offered?

Dear Bishop Henry,

On the front page of your diocese's website, I see there is a letter in which you are forbidding the distribution of communion on the tongue due to H1N1 concerns. Separately, I have heard that you have forbidden the Parish of Saint Anthony's in Calgary, which is serviced by priests of the Fraternity of Saint Peter, to offer Mass using the Missal of 1962 because that Rite of Mass is incompatible with communion given in the hand.

Is this true?

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From: Bishop F.B. Henry <bishopfh@rcdiocese-calgary.ab.ca>
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: Calgary's Saint Anthony Parish: forbidden to have Mass if communion in the hand is not offered?



Dear Michael

The Fraternity ahs informed me that they are unable to comply with the directives in my pastoral letter re reception of communion. Therefore, the Latin Mass will be suspended until the temporary sanctions have been lifted as recommended by the Medical Officer of Health.

Peace, Bishop Henry



November 25, 2009
Rev. C. Blust, FSSP
St. Anthony’s Parish
5340 4th St. SW
Calgary, AB, T2V 0Z5

Dear Fr. Blust and My Brothers and Sisters of the Latin Mass Community of St. Anthony’s

The sacraments (and sacramentals – like holy water) are entrusted by Christ to the church which is responsible for determining through regulation the manner of their proper celebration. The bishop is the chief liturgist in the local church or diocese. In the event of a pandemic, we ought to try to reduce the possibility of transmission of a virus and protect the faithful – also the body of Christ. Our current liturgical restrictions in Calgary aim to do precisely that . This is a difficulty for some but we must remember that a Catholic spirituality is not an individual affair but communitarian from the get-go. For the love of our brothers and sisters we have mandated the sacrificing of a personal preference in the manner of Eucharistic reception for a temporary period.

Receiving communion on the tongue is not a dogma of faith. Nor is it an absolute. Since the Eucharistic Celebration is the Paschal Banquet, it is desirable that in keeping with the Lord's command, his Body and Blood should be received by the faithful who are properly disposed as spiritual food. In the Diocese of Calgary, all the faithful may receive communion on the tongue or in the hand - this also applies to the faithful who choose to celebrate the Eucharist with the Latin Mass community at St. Anthony’s, Calgary and St. Patrick’s, Medicine Hat. However, due to the current N1H1 pandemic and in accordance with recommendations received from the Medical Officer of Health, communion on the tongue is temporarily suspended.

I want to be perfectly clear: no one is to be denied the Eucharist, what is at issue is the manner of reception.

Participation in the celebration of the Eucharistic sacrifice is a source and means of grace even apart from the actual reception of Holy Communion. It has also been long understood that when circumstances prevent one from receiving Holy communion during mass, it is possible to make a spiritual communion that is also a source of grace. Spiritual communion means uniting oneself in prayer with Christ’s sacrifice and worshiping him present in his Body and Blood.

Nevertheless, the current pandemic circumstances do not warrant the non-reception of the Body and Blood of the Lord in favour of a spiritual communion.

Wishing you all the best, I remain,

Sincerely yours in Christ,

+ F. B. Henry
Bishop of Calgary.

[And now...]

[parvenu74]

I've been tipped off to this letter from the CDF stating that it's not licit to deny communion on the tongue and have forwarded it to His Excellency. I'll post his reply.

[parvenu74]

I meant to include the link to the CDF's letter:

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-is-not-licit-to-deny-communion-on.html

[gpmtrad]

Extraordindary Minister, Nurse Ratchet, takes over the Canadian hierarchy.....


Get up and put your hands out!
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[parvenu74]

His excellency has replied:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bishop F.B. Henry
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: Calgary's Saint Anthony Parish: forbidden to have Mass if communion in the hand is not offered?


I am well aware of what the congregation decided but quite frankly, it is not their call. It is mine.

[gpmtrad]

[Gloriosae Dominae]

These kind of people won't be happy until the each Host is individually wrapped. They might even want to include a label which indicates the calorie count, amount of glutten, carbs, etc.

[Oremus pro invicem]

[Columba]

[pecador]

[gpmtrad]

[cantatedomino]

I'm edified by the FSSP. Bravo!

[PeterII]

Bishop Henry, the grace Nazi:

No Mass for you!

[Seraphim]

And therein lies the problem with the indult: Bishop contrives a way to squash the TLM, and the priest tucks tail between legs and leaves his parish adrift.

After all, he must OBEY!!!!! Obey....obey.....obey....obey....

Now we see where obedience in the conciliar church leads to: A neutered ministry.

Witness the wisdom of Archbishop Lefebvre and the traditional resistence!!
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[gpmtrad]

[Seraphim]

[rogator]

Since Rome say that it is not licit to deny Catholics the right to receive Communion on the tongue and this bishop is not permitting Masses which allow Catholics the right to receive Communion on the tongue, it follows that all Masses offered under the authority of his diocese are illicit.

[StevusMagnus]

Somewhere in an alternate, sane universe....

Benedict XVI – December 1, 2009 – Letter Excommunicating Bishop Henry

Bishop Frederick Henry, Bishop of Calgary, notwithstanding the letter of 24 July 2009 from the The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments clearly stating that each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, has performed a schismatical act by suspending the Mass of Pius V in his diocese, in violation of Summorum Pontificum and contrary to the will of the Supreme Pontiff, and has therefore incurred the penalty envisaged by the Code of Canon Law.

Having taken account of all the juridical effects, I declare that the above mentioned Bishop Frederick Henry has incurred ipso facto excommunication latae sententiae reserved to the Apostolic See.

The priests and faithful are warned not to support the schism of Bishop Henry, otherwise they shall incur ipso facto the very grave penalty of excommunication.

+ GIOVANNI BATTISTA RE
Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops

[Savonarola]

If ever I read such a letter from the Vatican, I will sing my Nunc Dimittis.

[Hammer of heretics]

[Columba]

[parvenu74]

[Vinnyf]

Here is an easy solution for the faithful (and the FSSP):



Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and Priory (SSPX)
235, 8 St. NE
Calgary, AB T2E 4G8
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[Hammer of heretics]

Maybe someone should point out the following to the bishop:

http://www.examiner.com/x-22920-Atlanta-Alternative-Spirituality-Examiner~y2009m12d1-WHO-advisors-paid-by-pharmaceutical-Companies

WHO advisors paid by pharmaceutical Companies
December 1, 1:28 PM
Katrina Derrico

People around the world are calling the Swine Flu Pandemic the most ambitious scam and corruption of our time. The amount of money being generated by the swine flu scare is unfathomable, the majority of which is going to the pharmaceutical giants.

WHO and Pharmaceutical Company Links Discovered

Several Danish journalists have been examining the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. These pharmaceutical companies are reporting great profits by selling vaccines and medications to counter the H1N1 Swine Flu virus. This may not be all that much of a shock, but what is shocking is the fact that many of the scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, have been concealing the fact that they receive money and other incentives from the pharmaceutical giants around the globe.

JP Morgan, the international investment bank, has reported the pharmaceutical industry will make between seven and ten billion euros this year on the sale of A/H1N1 vaccines. Australia has ordered enough doses to vaccinate their entire population, German and several other EU member States have ordered enough to vaccinate at least one third of their population. Factories are reporting a backlog of orders despite working around the clock in four shift rotations and without sufficient number of clinical and laboratory tests being performed.

H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic Unjustified?

Many are question the justification of the pandemic status placed on the disease. According to WHO, the average annual death rate of traditional varieties of the seasonal flu reach approximately half a million, where the A/H1N1 victims have only reached six thousand this year.

The main cause of the hysterical response to the swine flu epidemic, according to reporters from the Danish newspaper ‘Information’, is not because it is so dangerous, but because of a strong public relations campaign by experts from WHO. Some of them [WHO experts] are literally in the service of the vaccine manufacturers.

WHO Advisors Receiving Money from Pharmaceutical Companies

“It is disturbing that many of the scientists who sit on various committees of WHO, are presented as ‘independent experts’, but they carefully conceal the fact that they receive money from pharmaceutical companies”, Professor of epidemiology, Tom Jefferson, who works at the Cochrane Center in Rome, told reporters.

The government of the Netherlands is conducting an emergency investigation into the activities of ‘Doctor Flu’. Dr. Flu is a Dutch doctor by the name of Albert Ostenhaus, who gained his nickname, after the vaccine Tami-flu, he has actively promoted mass vaccination of the population through WHO and the Western media. Recently it has become known that he receives a salary from several vaccine manufacturing companies. WHO announced the swine flu pandemic under pressure from a panel of advisers headed by Ostenhaus.

Ostenhaus is not the only WHO advisor that is on the pharmaceutical company’s payroll. Many other advisors sit “on two chairs” one at WHO and another at a pharmaceutical company, like Ostenhaus. Most would consider this a conflict of interest at the very least. Many of the advisers who have worked on the swine flu pandemic have carefully concealed the fact that they are also paid advisers to pharmaceutical giants such as Roche, RW Johnson, SmithKline and Beecham Glaxo Wellcome, companies who have received the lion’s share of orders for manufacturing of vaccines.

The result of pressure from these experts was the resolution of WHO on 7th July this year, which called for an unprecedented campaign of mass vaccination.

Normal Hygiene Provide Greater Defense Than Vaccines

“The WHO is biased in their recommendations – says Professor Tom Jefferson. – Normal hygiene measures provide much greater effect than these little-studied vaccines, and at the same time WHO refers to the use of masks and hand-washing as a means to combat swine flu only twice in their documents. Vaccines and other medications are referred to 42 times!” Dr. Jefferson and several of his colleagues believe that paid advisers of the pharmaceutical companies should be removed from their positions and not allowed to give recommendations to the WHO, but the organization itself is in no hurry to carry out such a reform. WHO spokesperson, Gregory Hertl, commenting on the article in ‘Information’ (Danish newspaper) said, “It is impossible to deny the services of the world’s leading experts on the sole ground that they have a financial interest in the promotion of a strategy to combat various diseases.”

A strong healthy immune system should be everyone’s focus for disease prevention. A diet rich in fresh, organic fruits and vegetables together with proper exercise has been reported as a much greater defense than vaccines that have not been properly tested.

[N. Wansbutter, Esq.]

The irony of this story is that Bp. Henry is supposedly an "arch-conservative" in Canada ... kind of like the Canadian version of Bp. Bruskewicz. Further, my parents live in Winnipeg, where Abp. James Weisgerber, one of the most liberal prelates in the Church, has done the opposite -- his response to H1N1 is to mandate communion on the tongue as stage 3 or 4 of their H1N1 preparation (I think they are only at stage 1 or 2 right now).
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[planocatholic]

bishopfh@rcdiocese-calgary.ab.ca

bishopsecretary@rcdiocese-calgary.ab.ca

[Mariam]

"Please note: Restrictions have been lifted and normal Mass times have been resumed"
FSSP-Calgary website
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