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...veils, the boys in white dusters, marched down four wide avenues to the great cross. There at the four altars four scarlet-robed Cardinals celebrated mass. Well-drilled, the 110,000 moppets rose, genuflected and crossed themselves in unison. When the moment came to partake of the consecrated wafer, 300 priests and monks distributed it in the vast crowd. Impressed by this gigantic act of faith, Cardinal Pacelli exclaimed: "This is heaven!" Afterwards, efficient nuns briskly served the children with hot chocolate and cakes. When the four Cardinals beheld this, they too wished to break their fast. Thereupon hot chocolate...
...will be infected by the blood of Our Lord!" Such a belief, though held by many pious folk, has no basis in church law or theology. In the Middle Ages communion was rarely received by Catholic laymen. Since 1414 it has been given "in one specie" only (the consecrated wafer), not for reasons of hygiene but because there was danger of sacrilegiously spilling the blessed wine, or of delaying the rite in presenting it to large numbers of people. The celebrant of the mass alone drinks from the chalice, save for the Pope in Rome. When he receives communion...
...common cup, who plan to take their battle to the Episcopal general convention next autumn, have no intention of departing from good Episcopal methods. They favor "intinction," as practiced in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in some U. S. parishes, where there are tuberculous communicants. By intinction, the wafer is dipped in the wine, handed by the priest to the communicant...
...From hostia (victim). The Host is a wheat wafer which, according to Catholic belief, has become the actual body and blood of Christ, Victim of Sacrifice...
...Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, Jesuit president of Georgetown University, found nothing harmful in the drawing, and a Catholic editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...