Mass or a "Communion Service" ? Which one is Catholic?

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the Supreme Act of Worship established by Our Lord Jesus Christ. Under pain of grave sin Catholics are bound to attend Mass every Sunday and holy day of obligation. Catholics are under no obligation to receive Holy Communion. Canon Law obligates Catholics (in the state of grace) to receive a minimum once per year  (at Paschal time between Palm Sunday and Low Sunday; though the bishop may extend the period, but not later than Trinity Sunday). In addition, the Church recommends that Catholics in the state of grace regularly communicate. Each Catholic may decide if they wish to communicate daily, weekly, monthly and so on.

What we are saying is not that the "Communion Service" is a protestant one. We are saying that it is the Mass that is the Supreme Act of Worship and that Holy Communion is a fruit of this Supreme Act of Worship at whose presence (to offer spiritually, the Faithful are being unjustly denied). The faithful, present at Mass, offering spiritual sacrifices in union with the priest, then may receive Holy Communion. The Eucharist flows from the Sacrifice. It is the result of the Sacrifice: "this is My Body... this is the Chalice of My Blood". With those words the Victim is present. A "Communion Service" breaks the link from the Sacrifice and Victim. Here we are not speaking of Viaticum, we are speaking of a new form of "service" outside of Holy Mass, which is the "mainspring of devotion, the soul of piety, the fire of charity" (St. Francis de Sales). To strike at the Mass is to strike at the very heart of the Church. In every age of persecution, the faithful strove to assist at Mass. In Rome, in Ireland during the penal era, in England under Elizabeth and James I, in Japan, in the deep south under KKK terror, in communist China, and so on, Catholics always risked their lives to be present at the Holy Mysteries. That is how important the Mass is!

With the church lockouts, and the suppression of Mass a great error has arisen amongst some Catholics, claiming that reception of the Holy Eucharist is necessary for salvation. This is not so. Can anyone deny that a baptized infant who dies will not be saved? Can anyone deny that the martyrs of old (Rome, Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Japan etc.) went to Hell because they were unable to receive Holy Communion?

Both St. Augustine and St. Thomas taught that it is not mere reception of Holy Communion that saves. On the contrary, St. Paul admonishes that reception unworthily brings damnation. The reception of the Holy Eucharist is necessary in a secondary sense (as St. Thomas taught), as Baptism is necessary in a primary sense. Our concern is that with this new "Communion Service" Catholics will begin to confuse (as they already are) even more the difference between primary and secondary necessity. "The necessity of receiving Holy Communion is, therefore, not like the necessity of receiving Baptism: Baptism is necessary for salvation..." (p. 207, Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine, Sheehan, 1950). It may well be that this error has arisen due to the shift away from the Sacrifice to a Memorial meal. Obviously at every meal, one partakes of food.

Another issue is the grave error of receiving Our Blessed Lord in the hand. This may well be the most horrifying evil that has been brought about by this "mandate" by God hating public health authorities who dare to change Catholic worship. Would it be that those Catholics who clamour for "Communion Services" cry out against the Profanation of the Real Presence! However, we Catholics can make spiritual communion, or attend where Mass is yet available. Catholics can still find priests who will not take the knee to their wayward Bishop; or they can, as an emergency, receive on a blessed paten the Most Holy Eucharist. In this they do nothing more than take emergency steps as is the norm during persecution (and let us NOT be deluded: the actions taken by the State and wayward bishops IS persecution).

Once again we plead: 

Cardinal Collins reopen our churches!

Reinstate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the Faithful!