One of the strange things about suburban Catholic Mega-Parishes is that there’s always a tremendous amount of red-tape in getting children or adults baptized. Yet strangely, receiving Holy Communion at such parishes is easier than getting a cheeseburger at McDonalds. This modernist practice is the total inverse of our original Apostolic practice that brought a lot more souls into the Catholic Church.>This isn’t an exaggeration. Keep in mind you need $1.79 to get a cheeseburger at McDonalds. But at your local Mega-Parish any person (even non-Catholics) can obviously walk up to any made-up “Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion” (EMHC) and receive the Son of God. There is no oversight. You don’t even need $1.79.>Of course, I am not in favor of giving money to get Christ in the Eucharist handed over (for that would heavily resemble what Judas did) but most Catholics do not realize there really was always priestly oversight on who was worthy to receive Holy Communion.

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