The principle "that every effect must have a cause is a self-evident truth, not only for those who have been trained in logic, but for thinking people everywhere." Cause and effect, "which is universally accepted and followed in every field of science, relates every phenomenon as an effect to a cause. No effect is ever quantitatively ';great' nor qualitatively ';superior' to its cause. An effect can be lower than its cause but never higher." In stark contrast, the competing theory of evolution attempts to make effects such as organized complexity, life, and personality greater than their causes-disorder, nonlife, and impersonal forces. As has been well said, "design requires a designer, and that is precisely what is lacking in non-theistic [materialistic] evolution."
Hank Hanegraaff

Communion In The Hand

Communion In The Hand

COMMUNION IN THE HAND

POST VATICAN II From FAITH, Editor Rev. Hololloway, S.T.L., Portslade, England. “The demand for `communion in the hand’ did not derive from any genuine demand or need from the people. It came from the same group of sophisticated neo-modernist intellectuials and priests who have been active in denying transubstantiation and are for the most part in open defection from the full doctrine, and even more, from the full morals of the Roman Catholic Church. It ought therefore to be more strenouously resisted, and the snide practice of doing away with the altar rails, on specious pseudo-liturgical pretexts, with it. Holy Communion for the general goods is given the most reverently, kneeling, and taken with devotion upon the tongue.”

CATHOLIC JOURNALS From WARNINGS FROM THE BEYOND, a supposed dialogue between exorcising priests and demons, circulated by Our Lady of Roses, Bayside, NY.

“Exorcist: `What is the story about Communion in the hand in the earliest times of the Church?’

“Demon: `Christ – we saw it ourselves at the time – when He broke the Bread, did not give It into the hands of the Apostles. He put the Bread directly into the mouths ot the Apostles. The Apostles gave Holy Communion in the mouth. If later they did receive It in ther hand, it was because they had the wrong understanding of things.’ “E: `Who did want to introduce Communion in the hand?’ “D: `It is we who schemed and plotted for that. We said to ourselves,

“If we can manage to introduce Communion in then hand among the early Christians, then later on we will be able to say, `There was Communion in the hand previously in the time of the first Christians.'”

“`However, Communion in the mouth was brought back. Certain leading saints and very great Doctors of the Church saw clearly where this was leading, and that it would be better and there would be more respect if He up there were received in the mouth.'”

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