Fr. Longenecker: Opposition to EMHCs is "clericalism"

[Mr. Mysterious]

Yet another one who's gone off the rails.

https://dwightlongenecker.com/what-i-say-to-my-extraordinary-ministers-of-holy-communion/

[Tales]

What can you say at this point but "lol"?  Reads as if someone made a public comment in his parish against EOMs and the people went nuts, so now he wants to calm their emotions with this long empty letter telling them how amazing they are.  Next thing you know some clericalist will tell us laser lights in the sanctuary are irreverent.

He should do a video with his friend Dr. Marshall whom constantly mocks EOMs.  See who folds.

[Barbarossa]

Yet another one who's gone off the rails.

He was never on the rails.....

[Gerard]

Trad priests are more efficient.  They don't have to waste time talking to their EHMCs because they don't have them.

But look at what Fr. Longnecker does by his words more than what he says with them. 


He sets the frame of the argument according to his own set of subjective standards.  He laments on a general level "abuse" by EHMCs but sort of takes it as a given.  No real condemnation for real abuse.  The real condemnation is for the people that are categorically against all abuse.  And when their standards are simply setting the bar higher than he does, back to say the levels the Novus Ordo was in "conservative" parishes in 1972. (You don't even have to go back to the TLM. )  That's called, "clericalism."  What a hoot!

He essentially isolates, categorizes and attacks preemptively any opposition to his position with a poisoning of the well tactic. 

Theoretically, he could do that same thing to justify any novelty or innovation that comes down the Pike permitted by any bishop or committee or pope.  Communion in the Hand, EHMCs, Intercommunion with Protestants, Communion for Divorced and Remarried, Women deaconesses preaching and standing at the Altar. Liturgical Dance fiascos.  Why not?  What's to stop him beyond his own personal preference?


He tells the EHMCs how important they are and simultaneously tells them they are not really necessary.  (So why have them? The Novus Ordo was designed to do away with "unnecessary" elements of the liturgy) What that does is shift the actual original purpose by which EHMCs were foisted on the Church and he comes up with some pathetic bafflegab to con people into thinking EHMCs have some kind of "calling."  But don't have an insidious purpose behind their origin and the function they serve in the desacralization of the Eucharist and the diminishment of belief in the Real Presence.

And, the second tactic that comes out is the pre-emptive strike against anyone who disagrees. 

He poisons the well by essentially stating that to be against EHMCs on a theological/ecclesial and sacramentological level is impossible. 

It's only a position of "extremists" possibly because they are damaged by all of the liturgical abuse they've encountered. 

(Of course this presumes upon us that he is the judge and barometer of what constitutes abuse of the Eucharist.  Why him and not Fr. Effeminate or Fr. Lazybones at any other random parish with EHMCs? I bet if he directly criticizes their abuse and subpar EHMCs, Fr. Effeminate and Fr. Lazybones will simply accuse him of being a throwback, retrograde who is tied up in too much doctrine and ceremony and doesn't have a real understanding of intimacy with Christ.  His High Church attitude is what is holding him back from a real encounter. And they will complain to Rome about his "rigidity."  So, he doesnt dare do that, because when it comes right down it, he is simply no different in kind but only different in degree from Fr. Lazybones and Fr. Effeminate at the local parishes. )

And those who disagree suffer from a form of "clericalism" by thinking that what was unambiguously an abuse by the Dutch and others prior to the 1970s is somehow sacred now because it's been dubiously tolerated with imprudent permissions. 


Whether he knows it or not, Fr. Longnecker is like the poster boy for modernism according to St. Pius X.  You can hear the words of Pascendi echoing in response to his article. 

St. Pius X warns about the innovators and the fanboys of the innovators and the "...species of compromise between the conservative and the progressive force by which progress is made..."  Fr. Longnecker is the embodiment of this. 

St. Pius X also points out the common practice of attacks against anyone who stands up against the modernists. 

It's like ticking things off of a checklist some days. 

[Miriam_M]

Yet another one who's gone off the rails.

He was never on the rails.....

Stole it from me!   

[lauermar]

Longenecker himself is a supporter of clericalism.

[Kreuzritter]

Sheesh, just ordain everyone already and let us say mass at our own leisure at home.