THE REMNANT                        August 15, 2004 AD

A Satanic "Market" for Consecrated Hosts

        The Catholic News Agency has reported (July 15, 2004) that the alarming growth of Satanism in Italy has created a market for the sale of consecrated Hosts. Fr. Aldo Buonaiuto, director of an emergency help line which assists young people who want to leave satanic cults, explained that "a proliferation of cults exists which practice black masses, with the profanation of consecrated hosts, rape and torture." As a result, says Fr. Buonaiuto, a "true market" for consecrated Hosts exists in Italy. The Hosts sell for 80-500 euros (approx. $100 to over $600), depending upon the size of the Host, the prominence of the Church from which they were stolen and the priest who consecrated them, the highest prices being paid for Hosts consecrated in Roman churches, particularly those closest to the Vatican. The Hosts, which are stolen either directly from Tabernacles or during the distribution of Holy Communion, are sometimes profaned during rituals led by LSD or cocaine addled ex-priests who have dedicated themselves to the service of Satan. Fr. Buonaiuto attributed the proliferation of Satanic cults to "the loss of the sense of the sacred," as a result of which "Man needs to fill himself with something, and today the market is full of superficial alternatives, among them, Satanism."

        Comment: In the early 1960's, I was attending a Catholic grammar school and, one Sunday, I arrived late for Mass. One of the nuns sat me down with an older class. At that point, I had not yet received my First Holy Communion, but, not knowing what to do when the older children got up for Communion, I followed them to the altar rail, received Communion, and went back to sit down. When the nun realized what had happened, she came and sat next to me on the pew and literally "coached " me on how to receive the Sacrament. She told me, in very serious tones, not to worry, not to chew the Host, etc. Fast forward 30 years to the early 1990's. I'm sitting at my friend's kitchen table listening to a woman relate, in a horrified voice, what she had just witnessed at her parish church. Two young boys had received Communion. When they got back to their seats, they began chewing and spitting out the Host! Compare my experience with that of the woman sitting at my friend's table. What sort of "instruction " in the Catholic Faith can these unfortunate boys have possibly received?

        We have all read the reports of people having to scour the fields after outdoor papal Masses, in order to pick up the Hosts that had been dropped and trampled into the dirt. We have all seen people at Novus Ordo Masses grabbing Hosts and popping them in their mouths as though count the destructive practice of Communion in the hand among the causes of the "loss of the sense of the sacred. " The Blessed Sacrament used to be a thing of awe to main- **** they were crackers. (missing text)  One wonders if Fr. Bounaiuto would stream Catholics. Today, it's really "no big deal. "

        In addition to destroying belief in and respect for the Real Presence, the practice of Communion in the hand has contributed to the ease with which Satanists can obtain Hosts. The liturgical innovators, and the priests who follow their lead, have (whether unwittingly or not) made it ridiculously easy to steal consecrated Hosts. One need only stand on line, hold out his hands, and walk away with a Host that he can sell for hundreds of dollars to cultists who are ready and eager to commit sacrilege upon it.

        Traditional respect for the reception of Holy Communion would go far in staving off such occurrences. But, unfortunately, even practical considerations, let alone "theological " ones, seem to be of little import to our shepherds. Here is more proof that the very survival of the Church depends upon a return to the Traditional Latin Mass and the doctrines which it has safeguarded for two-thousand years.

        I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power:  proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.  For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.  But you, be self-possessed in all circumstances; put up with hardship; perform the work of an evangelist; fulfill your ministry.  [ 2 Tim. 4:1-8 ]

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