daily communion

A good friend from St. Stephen directed my attention to Sacra Tridentina, On Frequent and Daily Reception of Holy Communion, approved and issued by Pope Saint Pius X on December 20, 1905.

Tolkien, Flannery O’Connor, and Marshall McLuhan were daily communicants. Andy Warhol declined, but his mother received every day. I read an interesting story about his Catholicism.

If interested in reading the Pius document, and it is an important one, the link is here:
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https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/decree-on-frequent--daily-reception-of-holy-communion-2174

A most significant section is No. 2, which states, “A right intention consists in this: that he who approaches the Holy Table should do so, not out of routine, or vain glory, or human respect, but that he wish to please God, to be more closely united with Him by charity, and to have recourse to this divine remedy for his weakness and defects.”

I don’t have to accept Francis’ pronouncement about the environment and his Sister Earth/Mother Earth garbage. He is not an environmental scientist, and Druids worship nature.

The Church told Galileo to stick to scientific matters. “Francis, stick to religious matters.”

For more about infallibility, see
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/32194/infallible-informal-how-binding-is-the-new-encyclical-on-catholics