Oh my.
I hope this isn’t true but I’m not really surprised by this. Are you?
With these kinds of stories one never knows what exactly happened so I hesitated to even post about it but so many people are discussing it at this point that it seems silly not to.
If this turns out to be true, what will happen then? What is happening? It doesn’t seem like much. Where is the reverence? Maybe that’s what we’re losing. Reverence.
With belief in the Real Presence waning, would it be a shock to learn that belief in the Real Presence is diminishing among priests as well?
CathCon reports this first person account:
“My name is Carlito Beixiga. I am a liturgical leader, I lead the Mass with my guitar, I sing and make people sing during the celebrations. I am from the parish of Oursbellile and Bordères-sur-l’Echez.
This Sunday, April 23, 2023, I went to Mass in Bazet because the Church in Bordères has been damaged and we can no longer go there. This morning at 10:30 I lead the Mass as usual on the guitar, and at the moment of communion there is an incident that I would like to point out, which shocked me, which shocked many.
At the moment of communion, Father Dorothée gives Communion to everyone, I sing. And at the end, I stop singing, Father Dorothée approaches me, I approach him, I lift myself up and I also lift the guitar in my hands.
So, not being able to take communion by hand, I approach him and open my mouth. I see that Father Dorothée hesitates to put the host in my mouth, he approaches, he steps back. I say to him, “Is there a problem? I have the guitar in my hand, can you see that I can’t take Communion?”
I thought he was going to put the host in my mouth, I approach and in front of me, and in front of everybody, he puts the host [he makes the gesture of holding it between his fingers] 10 centimetres from my mouth and he drops it.
So it falls to the ground.
I was annoyed, I went to pick it up, he picked it up, and I took the host out of his hands and took communion, I went back to my seat and said to myself, “What is this comedy? What happened is an incident that I would like to report, it was done in full view of everyone.
The shocked faithful would like Monsignor Micas, the Bishop of Tarbes-Lourdes, to remind all his priests that they know what a consecrated host is, the principle of transubstantiation, the conditions for receiving the Holy Eucharist – it is not licit in particular to refuse communion to a faithful person who wishes to receive it on his knees or in his mouth, as the Congregation for Divine Worship reminds us – and that they are aware of the protocol to be followed when a consecrated host falls to the ground.
Whatever the case of the celebrant of Bordères-sur-l’Echez, profaning the Body of Christ by mistreating both the host and the faithful is an act of rare gravity.
I’ll admit that the entire thing seems a little odd to me. The whole guitar thing seems odd but the priest dropping the Eucharist on the floor is just horrifying. Some of these modernists in the Church are so intent on reshaping the Church to their won vision that they’ve lost sight of what the Church really is and what its role is in the world.
The Catholic Man has this:
April 28, 2023 at 10:29 am
In my own little world as a self-appointed minister of propaganda, I strive to avoid sharing ‘rage headlines’ before confirming the underlying story. No reflection on your consistently solid posts, though, Matt.
And – guitar Mass – well, there’s your problem! 🙂
April 28, 2023 at 11:18 am
Hard to know if his testimony is real. Seems really odd. But if he is approaching communion playing guitar, then I guess there are several things to be concerned about…
April 28, 2023 at 6:23 pm
Agreed that there are some odd things about that story.
However, I live in Wash. DC and have had a few similar experiences within recent years.
For many years, While still working, I went to daily mass on my lunch hour. Always received communion on the tongue with no problem, from many different priests, over the years. One day a visiting priest said mass. I walked up to receive and instinctively closed my eyes. In the next second, I felt the host being shoved through the fingers of my clasped hands. Then heard an angry “Amen”. I walked back to my pew in shock.
After retiring, I wanted to continue the practice of daily mass at noon and there is a parish near me (not my parish) that does have a noon mass. The priest there right away let me know in various ways that he has a problem with communion on the tongue. Two or three times the host fell on the floor because he would hold it high above my tongue and then simply drop it. Once, he even said “whoops!”. With him, I could not close my eyes because I had to literally catch the host. Mind you, this predates Covid, so that is not the reason.I think he is simply squeamish about possibly touching a tongue. He has many good qualities as a priest, but that he could treat the Eucharist this way is very troubling. After many upsetting experiences with him, I would just go to mass but not take communion. After a while, I simply gave up the years old practice of daily mass. Makes me sad.
I twice tried to talk to priests about this, but neither was willing to. Their discomfort seemed to be from not wanting to criticize a fellow priest. Understood.
May 17, 2023 at 8:11 am
It is sacrilege to drop the Host. What kind of priests do that?!? They are becoming woke/antiChristian/globalists.